Lars von Trier

Live Review: Magnetic Fields at Boulder Theater

Redacted

With outrage to spare, a fierce Brian De Palma returns to the war zone. Take cover.

Tin Star Cafe & Donuts|Senor Burritos

Wrap me in comfort food.

After the Wedding

This Danish melodrama gives a hell of a lot more than a reception.

The Good German

Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make ’em like they used to.

DIFF Burns On

The 28th Starz Denver International Film Festival is ready for action.

Mall Ratty

A store clerk's tale is Lost amid a flurry of poor camera work.

Mad Cow

Takashi Miike scores with the crazy, creepy comedy of Gozu.

Tasty Danish

Six lonely strangers meet in a beguiling Italian class.

A Star Is Björk

Lars von Trier delivers the Icelandic pop icon as a simple and tragic Dancer in the Dark.

Antichrist

Lars von Trier delivers the Icelandic pop icon as a simple and tragic Dancer in the Dark.

Michael Gira of Swans on the new album and his time as a bassist

Owen SwensonSWANS​ Emerging in the milieu of the No Wave scene in the New York underground in 1982, Swans became known for the kind of music that was forbidding, terrifyingly intense in its execution and lyrically uncompromising in its depiction of the darker side of human existence. Although ... More >>

How The Inner Room, filmed entirely in Colorado, was made

Filming on location in Bumfuck, Egypt.​Fairplay, Colorado, is a tiny mountain town with about one street, situated some 40 miles south of Frisco between the San Isabel and Pike national forests. In other words, it's in the middle of nowhere. In other other words, it's a really difficult place ... More >>

The Starz Denver Film Festival schedule is live; ticket sales open later this week

Kirsten Dunst in "Melancholia."​ You can start planning now: The schedule for the 34th annual Starz Denver Film Festival, which runs November 2 through 13 at various venues throughout town, is now available online at the user-friendly Denver Film Society website. DFS member early ticketing ope ... More >>

Starz Denver Film Festival: Brit Withey on Denver FilmCenter/Colfax opener Melancholia

Video below.​Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest -- including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Here, he shares his take on tonight's opener ... More >>

Starz Denver Film Festival 2011: Melancholia had me praying for the world to end -- and soon

Big pics below.​Director Lars von Trier's Melancholia, the red-carpet-premiere attraction at the Denver FilmCenter Colfax opening night for the 2011 Starz Denver Film Festival, is a feel-bad movie that's been declared a masterpiece by critics aplenty. So universal has been the acclaim that any ... More >>

Melancholia at 2011 Starz Denver Film Festival had me praying world would end -- soon

"Melancholia."​Director Lars von Trier's Melancholia, featured at the 2011 Starz Denver Film Festival, is a feel-bad movie that's been declared a masterpiece. So universal has been the acclaim that anyone who begs to differ is in danger of being declared an ignoramus or a philistine. But what ... More >>

Movie Madness

"Melancholia."​Director Lars von Trier's Melancholia, featured at the 2011 Starz Denver Film Festival, is a feel-bad movie that's been declared a masterpiece. So universal has been the acclaim that anyone who begs to differ is in danger of being declared an ignoramus or a philistine. But what ... More >>

Melancholia dares to imagine the one event that might bring us all together

"Melancholia."​Director Lars von Trier's Melancholia, featured at the 2011 Starz Denver Film Festival, is a feel-bad movie that's been declared a masterpiece. So universal has been the acclaim that anyone who begs to differ is in danger of being declared an ignoramus or a philistine. But what ... More >>

Deconstruct the films of Lars von Trier at the Thin Man

​Currently in the spotlight for his latest film Melancholia, in which life goes on in a world under the threat of total destruction, Danish director Lars von Trier peppers his movies with avant garde visuals, misogyny, complex stories and stylized stagings. And since the release of Element of ... More >>