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“You can get lost in the kitten vortex for hours.” A wide-ranging interview with The Jesus Lizard's David Yow, taking in new album Rack, a try out for Nirvana, acting, a sadistic witch, and a cat riding a goat

The Jesus Lizard are back, and David Yow has things on his mind

Louder

‘In Europe, everyone’s screaming kill, kill, kill’: Stellan Skarsgård on Sweden, ‘silly’ Scandi noir and security

The Swedish actor is playing a bamboozled police officer in What Remains, a film written by his wife and starring one of his sons. He looks back on mixing Marvel with arthouse, taking risks with Lars von Trier and Sweden joining Nato

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

The Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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 Independent UK

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

‘Cannes is the highpoint of glamour, the apex of celebrity and a bleak place for women’

Every year, the festival generates two kinds of headlines: one of premieres and prizes, another involving the spectre of misogyny. Will glamour always matter more than progress at Cannes, asks Sophie Heawood

Evening Standard

Streaming: the best winners of Cannes’ Palme d’Or

Twenty-one films will vie for the top spot at the 76th Cannes film festival, which starts next week, hoping to join the roll call of past classics, from Taxi Driver and M*A*S*H to Parasite

The Guardian - UK

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

Salon

The Kingdom Exodus: cast, plot and where to watch Lars von Trier’s new medical horror-comedy series

This is the third and final series of the absurdist hospital show

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Venice film festival 2022 opening roundup – a promisingly juicy start

Call Me By Your name director Luca Guadagnino serves up some fine young cannibals, Cate Blanchett dazzles in a musical tour de force, and Call My Agent!’s Laure Calamy is full of surprises

Evening Standard

Cate Blanchett’s Tár receives standing ovation – here are Venice Film Festival’s other big moments

As director Todd Field tackles cancel-culture, we look at the other big moments in Venice’s recent history

The Guardian - UK

The Kingdom: Exodus review – return of Lars von Trier’s cult hospital horror

Venice film festival: Five-part miniseries, premiering at Venice film festival, fuses fear and soap opera with satisfying wildness and weirdness

Los Angeles Times

Director Lars von Trier diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and 'is in good spirits'

Filmmaker Lars von Trier has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and is in "good spirits" while being treated for the symptoms of the brain disorder.

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Radio France Internationale

Cannes stalwart Lars von Trier reveals he has Parkinson's

Danish art house director Lars von Trier is undergoing treatment for Parkinson's disease, it was revealed on Tuesday.

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

Cate Blanchett and Harry Styles to head to Venice for 2022 edition of film festival

Competition slots for jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi, Martin McDonagh and Darren Aronofsky, while actors on show range from past winner Blanchett to Bill Nighy and Harry Styles

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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