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Going down

Nobody Gonna Sleep Here

The trenchant Dogville is a masterpiece of melodramatic tension — and Lars von Trier's best film to date.


Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: A bittersweet romantic comedy/SF thriller taking place inside the protagonist’s brain where memories of love are crumbling and vanishing even as he tries desperately to reclaim them.


Dawn of the Dead: An enjoyable piece of work in its own right, although it would take a director of considerably more genius to do justice to the source material.


Friday Night : Both witty and tremendously evocative of those nights in a big city when everything is out of whack and maybe even a little magical.

Mmmm, so close.

Torque: Nothing more profound than a succession of ever-more abstract moving images invoking impossible sensations of speed.

The Company

Press Clips (Updated 01/20/04)
Director Lars Von Trier on "filmic" films:

At the beginning of my career, I made very "filmic" films. The problem is that now, it has become too easy - all you have to do is buy a computer and you have filmic. You have armies rampaging over mountains, you have dragons. You just push a button. I think it was okay to be filmic when, for instance, Kubrick had to wait two months for the light on the mountain behind Barry Lyndon when he was riding towards us. I think that was great. But if you only have to wait two seconds and then some kid with a computer fills it in... It's another art form, I'm sure, but I'm not interested.

From Lion's Gate's press notes for Dogville


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