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[possession]

DOGVILLE (2003) dir. Lars von Trier

[callisteios]

do u have a list of all the film rec’s from your actor quiz?? i wanna get into some of the stuff you chose to work with!

Sure thing! It’s going to be kind of a long list. I’ll put in approximately in chronological order:

edit: also on letterboxd for anyone who prefers that

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Bringing up Baby

Holiday (1938)

His Girl Friday

Beauty and The Beast (1946)

Sunset Boulevard

Ikiru

Hiroshima Mon Amour

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane

Vertigo

The Exterminating Angel

Grey Gardens

Lawrence of Arabia

Network

Dont Look Now

Medea

The Name of the Rose

The Witch Who Came From the Sea

Alien

Possession

Dog Day Afternoon

Suspiria

Tampopo

Rosemary’s Baby

The Thing

Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Producers

Heat

My Beautiful Laundrette

Vampire’s Kiss

You’ve Got Mail

Magnolia

Dick

Eyes Wide Shut

The Matrix

Kill Bill: Vol 1

Bend it Like Beckham

Ocean’s 11

The Inside Man

Dogville

The Act of Kiling

Nymphomaniac Vols 1&2

Fast Five

Melancholia

Mad Max Fury Road

Thoroughbreds

Children of Men

Avatar

There Will Be Blood

No Country for Old Men

Embrace of the Serpent

The House that Jack Built

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Shiva Baby

Ready or Not

Dune

The Green Knight

Spencer

Fantasy Island

Bottoms

Aftersun

Past lives

Madame Web

Blackberry

You get some kind of special award if you try to watch all these

[everydayesterday]

(My favourite films by decade are below the cut)

Tonight, I watched 'Safety Last!'—the slapstick silent comedy from 1923 with the indelible 20-minute clocktower scene—which means that I've now seen at least one film from every year since 1891, shortly after the invention of motion pictures (I've also seen the few recordings that came before that, such as the 12-slide ‘Horse in Motion,’ but there are gaps in the years, and we're talking about film segments that were roughly 2 seconds in length—films didn't even get to 3 minutes in length until 1898; the first hour-long movie was in 1906).  

I've got 916 movies on my list (it's probably more than that; my mind has no idea if it's ever seen a sequel).  I posted a while ago about only having 600 movies logged; to fill out the list I went through box office charts to identify what I'd likely seen in the 80s, 90s, 00s, etc. but had forgotten about.  

I was missing so many from the 90s, when we had our family movie nights.  On average, from 1989 to 2000, I saw 28 films per release year.  That dropped to 15 once I finished undergrad, and has remained pretty constant.  Going by the box office charts, I don't feel I've missed much of what I've wanted to see; there have been far too many sequels and metaverses, which simply don't interest me.  Over these COVID years, I've been watching more than just the newest releases, catching up on earlier decades; I've seen 173 that were released before I was born (most pre-1970 releases are from COVID onward).  

My favourite films by decade (because I like lists):  

1890-99: The Astronomer's Dream (1898).  Directed by Georges Méliès; the first film as real artistic production; multiple scenes and stages, special effects, 3 minutes.  

1900-09: The Great Train Robbery (1903).  The first epic action movie, at 13 minutes.  Fantastic production value; it's got better cinematography and editing than a lot of current movies.  

1910-19: I'm unsure.  ...perhaps The Conquest of the Pole (1912), another by Georges Méliès.  I need to see more films from this decade.  

1920-29: Wings (1928) and Metropolis (1927), take your pick.  One, the Oscars' first Best Picture winner and the benchmark for romantic drama (and with Clara Bow!), the other the most impressive film ever made.  

1930-39: My Man Godfrey (1936), my favourite Carole Lombard role (she's a fuckin' hoot!).  

1940-49: Citizen Kane (1941), Casablanca (1943) are both fine choices, but my choice would be His Girl Friday, because snappy dialogue is like a hit of cocaine.  

1950-59: Roman Holiday (1953).  Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck are both so charismatic; the chemistry here is palpable.  

1960-69: The Great Escape (1963) is an excellent pick, as is Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966).  I'd take The Graduate (1967); it felt so unique, not your typical love story, and Anne Bancroft's vulnerable seductiveness turn felt so dangerous.  

1970-79: This was such a great decade (Harold and Maude, Chinatown, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Up in Smoke) ...but Apocalypse Now (1979) is my all-time top pick.  

1980-89: The Gods Must Be Crazy (1984).  Timeless.  Wholesome.  Simple and effective.  

1990-99: I'm trying to pick one film out of the 300 that I've seen from this timeframe, so maybe one [Ed. note: or more] per year?  Edward Scissorhands (1990), Point Break (1991), Wayne's World (1992), Jurassic Park/Schindler's List (1993), The Madness of King George/The Hudsucker Proxy/Quiz Show/Malcolm X (1994), Babe (1995; yes, the pig movie), The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1996), Life is Beautiful (1997; La vita è bella), ...not sure on 1998...maybe Waking Ned Devine/Pleasantville..., Office Space/Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1999).  

2000-09: Gladiator/Girl, Interrupted/American Psycho (2000), Amélie/Ali (2001), Super Troopers/Secretary (2002), Dogville (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), There Will Be Blood (2008), Dead Snow (2009).  

2010-19: The Artist (2011), Argo (2012), Beasts of No Nation (2015), Rogue One (2016), Coco (2017), The Nightingale/Parasite/Knives Out (2019).  

2020-23: One Night in Miami... (2020), Nitram (2021).  

If you’ve made it this far, thanks for watching.  🎞️

[kizzyedgelll]

✨ + edits (feliz aniversário atrasado, dearest. ♥)

tysm matt ♥

my 3 favorites of your creations (in no particular order)

this john wick 4 gifset because!!! bill skarsgard!!!! i rest my case.

this anya taylor-joy photoset because i love this pictures and your edit is so vibrant!

the dogville gifset is very pretty! i love the colors sm <3

[cinemacentral666]

Manderlay (2005)

Movie #1,052 • Ranking Lars von Trier #13

A direct sequel to Dogville, 2005's Manderlay is easily von Trier's most direct work of sociopolitical messaging to date. If you were wondering about his thoughts on race in America, well, big surprise: he doesn't have a very sunny outlook! Of course, this isn't a unique stance by any means, but through his warped lens we see things from a different perspective (PERHAPS). It's a delicate and touchy subject, to say the least. And while I don't think it ranks anywhere close to his most successful movies, it isn't necessarily the focus of the attention which is the main issue. Featuring many actors from the cast of Dogville (mostly in different roles), minus Nicole Kidman in the lead role of Grace (here replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard) and James Caan as her father (who bowed out over issues with the politics, and was replaced by Willem Dafoe), Manderlay is filmed in the same soundstage style. Howard does her best in an incredibly difficult spot, but she's clearly a step down.

There are two main issues which plague this film. First, this is truly an insane and somewhat unbelievable premise on multiple levels. Unrealistic in a bad way, I feel. Grace goes straight from ordering the soulless murder of an entire town (she made a mother watch her children being executed!) to emancipator of slaves: some 70 years after the Civil War she stumbles upon a plantation where the rouse of slavery is still being subjected on a dozen or so in rural Alabama. Using the might of her father's gangsters, she flips the table, forcing the white family into a life of servitude as she tries to instill the merits of freedom of democracy (albeit with the force of her dad's men, Jean-Marc Barr and Udo Kier reprising roles, among them). Why the dramatic change of heart after how things ended in Dogville? It's a stretch, but the idealism buried within her isn't quite dead yet. New to the production are a slew of fantastic black actors, including Danny Glover and Isaach de Bankolé. There are many twists and turns throughout the movie's 8 chapters as they follow Grace's lead before, in true LVT fashion, everything goes to hell.

The second big issue is that this is just not as good cinematically. There are several weird cuts and editing choices. Overall this is sloppier and not as refined. Though it was filmed with the same cinematographer and basically in the same style, the lovely lighting and precision staging from Dogville is missing. It's still unique and impressive given the constraints, but it lacks the nuance which made its predecessor so striking.

This was a co-production of an outlandish seven countries (Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy). There's one notable exception to that list. Can you guess? Far be it from me to declare what stories someone should or shouldn't tell, but it ultimately feels like von Trier is reaching here. Americans know just how fucked the situation is. We don't necessarily need a Danish weirdo to point it out. By the time we get to the end credits, set once again to Bowie's "Young Americans" against an even more disparate series of horrifying photos (what does 9/11 have to do with any of this?), it just feels exhausting.

But I admire his gusto, his never-ending desire to 'go there' without any hesitation or worry about the consequences or reception. But Dogville worked far better because it was better executed, felt fresh and new, and tackled the subject matter in a much more universal way.

SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️¼

I'll be counting down all of Lars Von Trier's movies right here at @cinemacentral666 every Thursday through September 2023

[byneddiedingo]

Nicole Kidman and Zeljko Ivanek in Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003) Cast: John Hurt, Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Blair Brown, James Caan, Patricia Clarkson, Jeremy Davies, Ben Gazzara, Philip Baker Hall, Zeljko Ivanek, Cleo King, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård. Screenplay: Lars von Trier. Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle. Production design: Peter Grant. Film editing: Molly Malene Stensgaard. Lars von Trier's Dogville has weathered an initial critical reaction that dismissed it as "Our Town on downers" to become among his most admired films. But that may be in part because von Trier's life and works have been the focus of so much intense controversy since the film was made, so that Dogville looks like a relatively stable and focused work, especially in comparison with Antichrist (2009), which provoked walkouts at Cannes, and Nymphomaniac (2013), his sexually explicit epic-length film. Von Trier has also been plunged into controversy after joking in an interview that he was a Nazi -- he later apologized and said he was drunk when he made the comment -- and by charges of sexual harassment during the making of his films. He has become something of a latter-day poète maudit, whose defenders are as passionate as his detractors. But Dogville, though overlong and perhaps too show-offily "experimental" in its minimalism, tells a strong story with the help of some gifted performers, particularly Nicole Kidman, who gives one of the best performances of a remarkable career in the role of Grace, the gangster's daughter who winds up being abused by and then destroying the titular town. Some of the criticism initially directed at Dogville centered on its supposed "anti-Americanism," which seems to me wrong-headed. Is the barely masked greed and hypocrisy of Dogville's inhabitants indigenous to America? Is its portrayal of the dark side of frontier village life any more an indictment of America than that of the town of Presbyterian Church in Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), a film that I've never heard called anti-American? And anyway, there's nothing more American than the freedom and willingness to criticize America. Why not extend that freedom to Danish filmmakers, too?

[youcanrestnowtony]

[kaos-teorema]

all night she wants the young american

dogville (lars von trier, 2003)

[s-skiba-filmmaker]

Women from Trier's movies | Spinnerette - Distorting a Code

[scumsberg666666]

Dogville (2003)

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[possession]

My God, can't you see how condescending you are when you say that? I mean, you have this preconceived notion that nobody, listen — that nobody can possibly attain the same high ethical standards as you, so you exonerate them. I cannot think of anything more arrogant than that.

DOGVILLE (2003) dir. Lars von Trier

[daantaat]

All I see is a beautiful little town in the midst of magnificent mountains. A place where people have hopes and dreams even under the hardest conditions.

Nicole Kidman in Dogville (2003)

[journey-through-time]

[In regards to his claim questioning if he was responsible for the Stooges' personalities and comedy style] From the time they came to Columbia, there was nothing that I didn't approve. If I liked it; it stayed; if I didn't like it, it was gone. -Jules White

One of Jules White's earlier Columbia shorts before he would become more well know for his working with The Three Stooges. The camera work and editing is what makes the short so interesting in the sense that you can see the progress of his style developing into the slap-stick he became best know for. His aforementioned shorts before getting wider notoriety shows White has come a long way since his earlier projects spoofing "talkies", in what he called "barkies". He was with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) for their then trending Dogville Comedies (1929 - 1931), a division White helped create with childhood friend Zion Myers. After a long road and tenacious amount of work, Columbia would eventually close their comedy shorts department in 1957 and White would permanently leave the industry shortly after a few attempts at television, quoting "Who needs this rat race?".

[maareyas]

wow i haven’t posted art here in 3 million years

ok so hear me out. Role reversal au for sirius the jaeger where Mikhail is the one who escapes the dogville attack and joins the jaegers, and yuliy gets kidnapped by the vampires.

story more or less follows the same general flow. Mikhail vows to kill all the vampires (of his own volition rather than being influenced by Willard like with Yuliy). Since Yuliy was taken when he was around 7 y.o, he grows up brainwashed by Yevgraf

edit: click for higher res bc i forgot tumblr ruins the quality otherwise

[constantviewings]

Seven Days of Films: 2 - 8 Mar

American Animals

This is a film that I thoroughly enjoyed and I wish it got some representation this past awards season as the the cinematography, editing and score are fantastic; some acknowledgement of Evan Peter’s fantastic performance wouldn’t have hurt either. Both the failed and the successful robbery scenes are extremely tense whilst also incorporating a couple comedic moments, resulting in a pair of equally entertaining scenes.

Rating: 4

The House that Jack Built

This is the first Lars Von Trier film I’ve ever watched and I’m uncertain as to whether or not I’ll watch many more; I already plan on watching Dogville, Melancholia and Dancer in the Dark. Not that I don’t enjoy his storytelling aesthetic, more so that not many outside of those previously mentioned spark a desire for me to watch them. 

As for this film, I really enjoyed it. The impressive, but also sometimes grading, monologues are somewhat entertaining and Matt Dillon’s performance in the lad role is great.

Rating: 4