If you're watching a Lars von Trier film, you know you're in for some genitalia. The eccentric Danish director (he's afraid of flying and insists on driving from Denmark to France for the Cannes Film Festival, from which he is now banned for his 2011 Nazi gaffe) isn't just comfortable with displaying penises and…
Elizabeth Taylor Had a Threesome With JFK and Another Dude in a Pool
In the age of designer drugs and Twitter and cell phone pictures of celebrities grinding with each other to music composed almost entirely of beeps, there's something classy about an old-school Hollywood scandal. Even Lindsay Lohan's sordid exploits can't match those of Elizabeth Taylor, whom Lohan depicts in the…
Lars Von Trier Declares Himself A Nazi, Hitler Sympathizer
Director Lars Von Trier seemingly lost his shit when, at a press at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Melancholia, he declared himself a Nazi and Hitler sympathizer among things in a bout of verbal diarrhea that freaked out other members of the panel, before a moderator cut the event short.
Genital Mutilation, Violence, And Misogyny In Von Trier's Antichrist
When Lars von Trier's new film Antichrist screened at Cannes, it was met with whistles, boos, and horrified laughter. It's obviously and blatantly offensive. But, as a profile of von Trier in Sunday's New York Times asks, is it misogynist?
