Overview

The mercurial Danish director of Dogville, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves offers his inimitable views on life and art in this fascinating, opinionated and witty addition to Faber's 'Directors on Directors' series.Lars Trier affected the lordly 'von' in his name while still a film student, in homage to such great movie-makers of the past as von Sternberg and von Stroheim. His own brilliant directing career has been marked by similarly grand ambitions, and he is unique in having premiered all of his features - from the highly styled The Element of Crime to the digital-video-originated The Idiots - at the Cannes Film Festival. Trier is a rare item in contemporary cinema, a restless innovator and polemicist, as his participation in the back-to-basics Dogme95 movement attests; and these conversations with Stig Bjorkman, author of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, trace the evolution of his career and thought in a manner that is both astonishingly detailed and engagingly humorous.

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Author:   Stig Bjorkman ,  Neil Smith
Publisher:   Faber & Faber
Imprint:   Faber & Faber
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.310kg
ISBN:  

9780571207077

ISBN 10:   0571207073
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   05 February 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Lars von Trier . . . makes us wonder what kinds of operas Nietzsche might have written. He finds the straight pure line through the heart of a story, and is not concerned with what cannot be known. --Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times <br> Von Trier [has] emerge[d] as one of those blessed filmmakers--the Coen Brothers and Wong Kar-Wai also pop to mind--who've managed to blend their early stylistic flamboyance with enough human empathy to make their work both visually and emotionally compelling. --Russel Smith, The Austin Chronicle <br>

Author Information

Stig Bjorkman is a Swedish film journalist and film-maker. For Faber, he has edited Woody Allen on Woody Allen.

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