:datass: I love the main theatrical poster too. The first movie has the most iconic poster though

80’s posters :datass:

I'm enjoying it at the moment but it's a tough one. trying less to decipher its cryptic narrative and just soak in the experience. I've always agreed with Lynch's idea about the 'treachery of language' in relationship to art in that it attempts to concretize the ineffable. Which is why I've respected that he doesn't talk about the meaning of his films. But this one's almost completely inscrutable (so far). 2 hours of

I mean you could say the same thing about The Mirror

You like it more than Mullholland Drive?

its ok

I view it similarly to Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built or De Palma’s Body Double. They’re all films directly playing up the perceptions people have of them as artists. Doubling down on their most extreme impulses.

By a lot. Mulholland Drive is great tho.

Love that it has the “Welcome to prime time, b****!!” scene on here

yeah I get what you're saying I suppose. the self reflexivity in the House That Jack Built (specifically the intertextual scenes from earlier Von Trier films) really felt out of place and a bit self masturbatory to me (and made me like the film less) despite its great ending.

Fun fact I went to the premiere of The House that Jack Built in France and legit like half the theater walked out during the film Then it got like a 10 minute standing ovation.

Von Trier’s rawest film, beat Dogville as my fav from him

I don’t view it as masturbatory, because he’s not patting himself on the back. He’s interrogating his own process and his biggest critics. It’s like “this is what you think I am—so have it all and more”.

Breaking The Waves I think is his best.

this is still the funniest interview I've ever seen. Lars calling himself a Nazi, trying to make a joke out of it but messing up completely, then getting banned from the festival for 8 years and getting invited back only to have half the theater walk out during the movie.

Oh the french...

I need to rewatch the scene because it's been a while. from what I remember it felt like he was totally patting himself on the back/defending his art (Which is completely fine to do but to do it in the middle of your own film...)

but I could be wrong. Like I said it's been a while

This so good

I would say so as well. It reminds me a lot of the most hated masterpiece in this thread Au Hasard Balthazar especially the ending

Yeah it's a horrible line of work. I've got a couple mates who are really talented writers but have had to get corporate jobs and leave the creative stuff to their spare time.

Saunders is the man though, have you read Lincoln in the Bardo?

I haven't finished it. I gave my copy to my mom actually but she had already read it.

@HeyFella

this one is also hilarious. wish I could find the full version, this one cuts off right before he says he's the greatest director in the world dafoe's face throughout the exchange

yeah dogville is great. getting my dad to watch it this week.

Funny cause you love South American music so much but all the South Americans I know just wanna blare reggae all day. My town has a famous mountain for climbing so people come from all over, especially down there.

Stellan watching like

Back when I used to bartend at British Airways I met some Danish guy who worked on a bunch of films with Von Trier. He really loved all his films except that he hated Dogville because of its treatment of woman. Which confused me since Antichrist/Breaking The Waves/Dancer in the Dark all have a similar narrative/treatment of woman. Breaking The Waves being the most brutal version of it.

Stellan seemed to be enjoying it I think his humor just didn't land lol. The French are still sensitive about WW2 which I understand but I really don't think what he said was that bad. Show this to most Jews and they'd probably find it hilarious.