In the late eighties, long before Dogme 95 and the digital revolution, Lars von Trier’s “Medea,” a 76-minute tour de force produced for Danish television, proved just how evocative and liberating ...

At once a showman, a sadist, a provocateur, an egomaniac, and a visionary, Danish director Lars von Trier has a gift for commanding the world stage. Yet for all the radical gimmickry in his work–the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lars von Trier is a filmmaker for whom each day probably feels like another installment in a long, slow slog toward the end of the ...

It’s been nearly 40 years since writer-director Lars von Trier shook up the film world when his debut feature film The Element of Crime premiered at Cannes. In the decades since, his films have ...