The Danish director's brooding contemplation of the planet's demise is a bit of a bore, writes Todd McCarthy. By Todd McCarthy CANNES — Lars von Trier manages to turn the end of the world into a bit ...

SEVILLE, Spain– Lars von Trier’s end-of-the-world drama “Melancholia” tops nominations for this year’s European Film Awards — Europe’s equivalent of the Oscars — with eight mentions. “Melancholia’s” ...

Melancholia‘s plot synopsis: “Justine, a woman suffering from an extreme case of clinical depression, celebrates her marriage with a extravagant reception that is marred bickering family members, ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

As a director who’s done everything from a modern movie opera with Bjork to a Nicole Kidman melodrama played on a bare set, Lars von Trier stands as one of cinema’s leading modernists. One of its most ...

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 ...

Screening some of the most highly anticipated films of the season, along with special programs and series focusing on directors and avant-garde work, the 49th New York Film Festival starts on ...

Metaphors don't come balder than the one at the center of Lars von Trier's Melancholia. It's both the emotional state of the protagonist Justine, played by Kirsten Dunst, and also the name of a small ...

MELANCHOLIA (2011)Regional PremiereDirector: Lars von Trier, Denmark, 130 minutesThe man who brought us Fantastic Fest hit ANTICHRIST creates a very different type of genre film – an incredibly ...

The movies tend to shy away from dramatizing depression. Addiction, obsession, madness: Those are a little easier for filmmakers. But nailing the specifics of how depression can slowly but ...