I haven't watched an actual Lars von Trier film since... I actually can't recall but I love reading about him and watching him on TV. He's such a controversial person but always interesting and entertaining.
I will always have a fondness for him because of the "Riget" horror mini-series he made here in Denmark (Adapted in America by Stephen King as "The Kingdom"). He was a part of a wave of film and TV-makers that modernized Danish television.
Tiste Simeon, on 12 November 2015 - 01:46 PM, said:
Didn't he come up with some rather Nazi-like comments a few years ago?
No they were very Nazi-like, just taken completely out of context. He said crazy things like "I am a Nazi" and "I understand Hitler", etc. but seriously, the man is notoriously aloof and also intentionally provocative. The fact the press actually ran with it isn't surprising but that people so willingly demonized the guy afterwards felt pretty stupid.
He was of course talking about the way he approaches life and how he works as a film director. It's no secret that the guy runs his films like a bipolar tyrant. Hell, you should hear some of the stuff that comes out about their (State-funded) film studio Zentropa. That place is run like a Cult.
This post has been edited by Apt: 12 November 2015 - 01:59 PM