Though Lars von Trier’s mouth gets him into trouble, the Dane’s incredible storytelling talents are well under control. MELANCHOLIA, his latest, is a masterfully beguiling tale of sisters, depression ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The apocalypse is coming and Lars von Trier just seems depressed. The controversial Danish director is back in Cannes again, following Antichrist from a few years ago (I was there for that infamous ...

Another example of von Trier’s genius for situationist wind-up, with Kirsten Dunst as a woman getting married as a giant planet crashes into Earth Lars von Trier, that great maestro of facetious event ...

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.

Arriving in the opening frames, the apocalypse has never looked better. Ever the contrarian, director Lars von Trier imagines that the world ends neither with a bang nor a whimper. We will not blow up ...

If Lars von Trier is ever hard up for money, he now has a demo reel set up for commercial work with a pharmaceutical company trying to sell antidepressants. “Ever feel like your depression is ...

One wedding and a funeral – for the entire planet. That is what Lars von Trier is serving up in his latest extravaganza: a staggeringly tiresome and facetious film, supposedly about the end of the ...