Screening some of the most highly anticipated films of the season, along with special programs and series focusing on directors and avant-garde work, the 49th New York Film Festival starts on ...

There will be time to talk at greater length and in greater detail about Lars von Trier’s new film, “Melancholia,” when it goes into theatrical release on November 11. But since it’s playing at the ...

What would you do if you knew for sure that the world was about to end? Writer and director Lars von Trier explored that idea in his 2011 sci-fi drama Melancholia, a film that was perhaps a little too ...

Metaphors don't come balder than the one at the center of Lars von Trier's Melancholia. It's both the emotional state of the protagonist Justine, played by Kirsten Dunst, and also the name of a small ...

The Danish director's brooding contemplation of the planet's demise is a bit of a bore, writes Todd McCarthy. By Todd McCarthy CANNES — Lars von Trier manages to turn the end of the world into a bit ...

"The Artist" and "The King's Speech" also among the winners. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief BERLIN — Lars von Trier‘s apocalyptic drama Melancholia blew them away at the 24th European Film ...

Melancholia is a movie about horror fiction that revolves around two sisters’ bond. Lars von Trier’s directorial has a stellar star cast that makes the film even more interesting. Wondering where to ...

The world may be popularly predicted to end in 2012 but that's not soon enough for Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, whose latest film Melancholia spectacularly finishes off earth and all life on it.

On its premiere, Lars von Trier's drama starring Kirsten Dunst was marred by controversy. But 10 years on, it stands as a masterpiece about mental illness, writes Sophie Monks Kaufman. In cinema, the ...

As a director who’s done everything from a modern movie opera with Bjork to a Nicole Kidman melodrama played on a bare set, Lars von Trier stands as one of cinema’s leading modernists. One of its most ...