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‘Truthfully, you can never be a good parent’: Inside Sentimental Value, the year’s frankest, most emotional film

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: A powerful tale of absent fathers and estranged children, Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’ – his follow-up to the acclaimed ‘Worst Person in the World’ – is primed for Oscar glory come 2026. Annabel Nugent speaks to Trier and his actors Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas…

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Udo Kier obituary

Actor whose eccentric presence was in demand for both arthouse and Hollywood films

The Guardian - UK

Udo Kier, German actor who starred in 200 films spanning Lars von Trier to Ace Ventura, dies aged 81

Actor who appeared in My Own Private Idaho, Blade, Armageddon and Dogville, as well as Madonna music videos and video games, died on Sunday

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Lars von Trier threw water at Bryce Dallas Howard and insulted her father

Bryce Dallas Howard has revealed director Lars von Trier threw a glass of water at her and insulted her father Ron Howard because he wanted to see her "angry face".

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Bryce Dallas Howard says director of 2005 film ‘insulted’ her father and threw water in her face

Lars von Trier directed Howard in the 2005 film ‘Manderlay’

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Dogma 25 announced at Cannes, as directors launch ‘cultural uprising’

A new collective seeks to reinvigorate cinema in the mould of Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95 movement, with a 10-point manifesto opposed to the internet

The Guardian - UK

‘Morally questionable’: inside the epic Lars von Trier exhibition in Copenhagen

It’s got colliding planets, women in peril and an angry phone-in host … we explore a show inspired by the director’s themes, yet refuses to shy away from his problematic side

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Lars von Trier is exciting and enraging – his Parkinson’s diagnosis spells doom for cinema

INSIDE FILM: As the controversial director behind ‘Antichrist’ is admitted to a care centre for Parkinson’s weeks after the death of David Lynch, Xan Brooks wonders whether this may be the endgame for a certain strain of uncompromising left-field cinema

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Willem Dafoe: Antichrist is misunderstood

Willem Dafoe believes that 'Antichrist' - the polarising 2009 horror picture that he starred in - was misunderstood by viewers.

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Mutzenbacher review – erotic novel reading makes men the object of the porn gaze

Ruth Beckermann’s documentary centres around a fake audition in which men read aloud from a once scandalous 1906 novel, revealing the grotesque and humorous nature of male fantasy

The Guardian - UK

Ten bodies recovered from plane crash, officials say; Belarusian president says he warned Prigozhin – as it happened

Flight recorders also recovered, Russian officials say; Alexander Lukashenko says he warned Wagner bosses to be aware of threats to their lives

The Guardian - AU

Lars von Trier defends ‘Russian lives matter also’ comment

Film-maker criticises Danish PM for donating F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine and posing with Volodymyr Zelenskiy

The Guardian - AU

Ukrainian official eviscerates Lars von Trier for ‘Russian lives matter’ post: ‘Siding with the executioner’

‘War is not a movie where actors play life and death. Behind every living Russian terrorist, there is a dead Ukrainian,’ secretary of the National Security and Defense Council wrote

The Independent UK

‘Siding with the executioner’: Ukrainian official eviscerates Lars von Trier for ‘Russian lives matter’ post

‘War is not a movie where actors play life and death. Behind every living Russian terrorist, there is a dead Ukrainian,’ secretary of the National Security and Defense Council wrote

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The Idiots review – Lars von Trier’s appalling-taste Dogme satire is irritatingly original

Whether intended as a satire of bourgeois hypocrisy or not this tale of boorish nihilists announced von Trier as a consummate provocateur

The Independent UK

Lars von Trier puts out advertisement for a ‘girlfriend and muse’ on Instagram

Danish filmmaker asked interested parties to email him in candid video

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Thrown; Dusk; Food review – plenty of fervent grappling with big ideas

Nat McCleary’s new play gets to grips with Scottish identity; a French-language take on Lars von Trier glides between stage and screen; and dinner is served, big time, courtesy of actor-clown Geoff Sobelle

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Dusk review – powerful exploration of Lars von Trier’s Dogville

The 2003 film forms the basis for this intriguing show about far-right tyranny but it is not a straightforward adaptation by any means

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Breaking the Waves review – Emily Watson adds brilliance to von Trier’s windup of a movie

In Lars von Trier’s otherwise ridiculous film, Watson brings generous substance to a punishing role as a dangerously selfless wife

Salon

Dogville's "honest folks" 20 years on

Lars von Trier's portrait of a town that takes in a fugitive Nicole Kidman is less a provocation than a reflection

Evening Standard

Lars von Trier: Danish film director diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease

Von Trier was said to be ‘in good spirits and... being treated for his symptoms’

The Independent UK

Filmmaker Lars von Trier diagnosed with Parkinson’s

Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, known for films like “Melancholia” and “Dancer in the Dark,” has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, his production company Zentropa said Monday

The Guardian - UK

Lars von Trier diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease

Danish director, who won Palme d’Or for Dancer in the Dark, said to be ‘in good spirits’

The Independent UK

Lars von Trier: Antichrist director diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease

‘Lars is in good spirits and is being treated for his symptoms,’ according to production company Zentropa

The Guardian - UK

Udo Kier: ‘I was so weak from eating only salad leaves to play Dracula I was in a wheelchair’

The German acting veteran of 275 films answers your questions on creating spine-chilling characters, singing into a lamp and working with everyone from Lars Von Trier to Arnold Schwarzenegger

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