Lars von Trier : interviews / Jan Lumholdt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lumholdt, Jan, 1961-

Series:

Conversations with filmmakers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trier, Lars von, 1956---Interviews.

Trier, Lars von.

Trier, Lars von, 1956-.

Motion picture producers and directors--Denmark--Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Denmark.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xliv, 218 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2003]

Summary:

Without question, Lars von Trier is the most intriguing film director to emerge in Denmark since the days of his great mentor in spirit Carl Theodor Dreyer. A relentless visionary von Trier (b. 1956) has succeeded not only in realizing his projects but also in managing to gather substantial audiences for his films. Breaking the Waves (1996) made him a well-known figure to international audiences, as did Dancer in the Dark (2000), winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. With six entries at Cannes thus far, Lars von Trier has been an award winner four times. The conversations in this collection trace his development from the structured, image-obsessed formalist of The Element of Crime (1984) and Europa (U.S. title Zentropa, 1991) to the control-shunning game master of the 1990s. Most of these interviews, two previously unpublished, are translated into English for the first time. They begin in 1968, when von Trier was the lead actor in a children's TV series, and end in 2001, as he is preparing the film Dogville. They reveal him to be impish, forthright, witty, sometimes infuriating, and deeply committed to the possibilities of cinema.

Contents:

He'd Rather Watch a Cop Show Than Himself / Lars Hoffmann 3

Passion Is the Lifeblood of Cinema / Ole Michelsen 5

We Need More Intoxicants in Danish Cinema / Lars Schwander 13

Sightseeing with the Holy Ghost / Thomas Alling 24

A Conversation between Jan Kornum Larsen and Lars von Trier / Jan Kornum Larsen 32

A Conversation with Lars von Trier / Marie Berthelius, Roger Narbonne 47

A Conversation with Lars von Trier / Michel Ciment, Philippe Rouyer 59

A Conversation with Lars von Trier, Henning Bendtsen, and Ernst-Hugo Jaregard / Eva Af Geijerstam 64

A Romance in Decomposition / Michael Tapper 71

Maniacal Iconoclast of Film Convention / Nigel Andrews 81

Euro Paean / Jonathan Romney 84

Lars von Trier, Director / Toby Rose 86

A Stone-Turner from Lyngby / Lars K. Andersen 88

I Am Curious, Film: Lars von Trier / Stig Bjorkman, Lena Nyman 100

Edge of Darkness / Wally Hammond 103

Control and Chaos / Christian Braad Thomsen 106

The Man Who Would Give Up Control / Peter Ovig Knudsen 117

Tracing the Inner Idiot / Ebbe Iversen 125

Dogme Is Dead! Long Live Song and Dance! / Jorn Rossing Jensen 130

Lars von Trier: The Man Who Would Be Dogme / Shari Roman 133

Dance in the Dark / Gavin Smith 144

Lars von Trier Comes Out of the Dark / Anthony Kaufman 153

There Will Be No Fun-Poking Today / Jan Lumholdt 159

9 a.m., Thursday, September 7, 2000: Lars von Trier / Kjeld Koplev 170

Lars von Trier in Dogville / Marit Kapla 205.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages [xxv]-xliv) and index.

ISBN:

1578065313

1578065321

OCLC:

50694808