NEWS: Lars Von Trier Does it Accidentally on Purpose

CELEB: Lars Von Trier Does it Accidentally on Purpose

Lars von Trier is all about intent. If ever a director had purpose, it's Von Trier. Take, for example, Dogme95, the collective of film directors founded by Von Trier in 1995, which claims the purpose of "countering 'certain tendencies' in the cinema today."

Now, the director known for films like Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and Dogville, has intentionally inserted five to seven out-of-context 'mistakes' into his latest movie, The Boss of it All, and is challenging viewers to identify them all. He's calling the concept "Lookey" and "came up with the idea to invigorate passive audiences." He's even offering a reward to the first Danish "Lookey-loo."

Von Trier has also introduced automavision, an experimental approach to shooting movies which employs "automatic randomized cameras."

It might seem a bit over the top, but Lars and his Dogme95 comrades are trying to resurrect the dead art of movie-making. After all, predictability (dramaturgy) has become the golden calf around which we dance.

Interesting.
I loved Dogville.

He is eccentric, but all those worth talking about typically are.

I liked Van Triers The Kingdom (not the american versoin) so much I started studying danish.

Wow, cool. How far into your studies are you? Denmark is one of the most wonderful countries I've ever visited.

Hmm... a film geek's "Where's Waldo". Cool.

I still can't get my hands on the 2nd season. Frustrating!

Von Trier is the shite. He's the real deal.
I love Zentropa, Medea, and Breaking the Waves best.
I hope he never stops making films and I hope he never fucking sells out.,

Finally! Some Celebrity news....!

"Ressurect the dead art of moviemaking"?

Look, I'm all for Dogme 95 just because it stirs things up, but let's not go fucking insane. Moviemaking is bigger than ever. I don't just mean in terms of blockbuster and mainstream type movies. I mean that if I want to make a movie and want people to see it, I can buy a camera, make it with my friends and upload it onto YouTube for the world to see for next to nothing. Digital video has lead to loads and loads of independent filmmakers getting their shit put out there, and we're on here lamenting, what, the same shit that everyone's been lamenting since Star Wars and Jaws came out? The summer blockbuster and the commercial aspect of movies? Get off it. In the first place, those are movies, and in the second, those are types of movies that get people hooked on movies, and third and most importantly, if you're getting distracted by the mainstream movies youself, it's your own damned fault for not scratching the surface.

There may be aspects of filmmaking that are dying or are dead, but the medium is huge and as creative as ever.

Haha, I love this man. Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and Dogville are all in my very favorite movies.

"chuckle"

What's frustrating is watching both seasons in two days to then discover the 3rd was never created.

It's been years since I watched it, but it still drives me crazy to not know what happens.