Anthony Kaufman points to this profile of Lars Von Trier in the Telegraph, occasioned by the UK release of the filmmaker’s last, brutally underrated feature, The Boss of it All, in which we learn that Von Trier is apparently in need of paying the mortgage aiming to put at least one more conventional English-language film in the can before continuing with the Dogville/Manderlay trilogy. His next project, called Antichrist, is described thusly:
…a “psychological thriller that evolves into a horror film”. It features one man and one woman, yet to be cast, will be shot in Germany and in English this summer and deals with the favourite Von Trier topic of cruelty between the sexes: “You have to guess who is the Antichrist,” says its producer, Meta Louise Foldager, mischievously. Von Trier is testing ways of manipulating the image in it.
So there’s that. While we wait, you can watch the “blooper” reel from the video Von Trier shot for the theme song to his TV series, The Kingdom. I’ve seen this thing 100 times, but it never fails to make me laugh.
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