Lars von Trier Articles

Shahab Hosseini in Asghar Farhadi's A Separation The National Society of Film Critics, among whose members are the majority of the United States' most influential and respected film commentators, has — as usual — taken a (mostly) different route than your average US-based critics' group. For every The Social Network or The Hurt Locker there's a Mulholland Dr. or a Yi Yi. This year, the [...]

Kirsten Dunst, Alexander Skarsgård, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melancholia MELANCHOLIA, A SEPARATION Screenplay, Jeannie Berlin: National Society of Film Critics' Surprises BEST PICTURE 1. Melancholia – 29 (Lars von Trier) 2. The Tree of Life – 28 (Terrence Malick) 3. A Separation – 20 (Asghar Farhadi) BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 1. A Separation – 67 (Asghar Farhadi) 2. Mysteries of Lisbon – 28 (Raoul Ruiz) [...]

Owen Wilson, Alison Pill in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris The biggest surprise among the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Theatrical Motion Picture nominations was the inclusion of George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, which hasn't exactly been a critical favorite or a runaway box-office hit. Also in the running for the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion [...]

Like just about every US-based critics group — year in, year out — the Online Film Critics Society has placed its focus on English-language productions this awards season. True, critics' fave The Artist, a French-made production, is in the running in several categories, including Best Film, but Michel Hazanavicius' comedy-drama is a) silent (which makes it seem less "foreign") b) set in Hollywood c) features [...]