Antichrist Articles

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Antichrist In another scene which similarly draws on the claustrophobic terror of the woods, He is attempting to guide She through her fear of the natural surroundings with a "game," wherein She must walk from one stone to another through several feet of grass. Her bare feet exposed to the long, overgrown grass, again shot in slow motion, gives the sense [...]

Antichrist (2009) Direction & Screenplay: Lars von Trier Cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg   Charlotte Gainsbourg,, Antichrist   Into the Woods (a.k.a, Satan's Church) It goes without saying that Lars Von Trier's Antichrist is a disturbing and controversial film. I will not lie; the only reason I decided to watch it was because it was a play instantly on my Netflix queue, and even then, [...]

Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire (middle); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (bottom) Six films are vying for the top prize at the 2009 European Film Awards. They are: Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, about a teenager (best actress nominee Katie Jarvis) upset that her mother has found herself a new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender) Stephen Daldry's The Reader, [...]

One of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival's clear favorites, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, a stark tale about a small northern German town beset by strange happenings right before the beginning of World War I, took the Palme d'Or for best film. (Cannes 2009 winners list.) "Happiness is very rare," said Haneke upon accepting his prize. "This is one moment in my life in which [...]