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“... The provocation begins with the name. Lars Trier, a boy from Denmark, went to film school and changed his name to the more aristocratic Lars vonTrier. In Trier on von Trier the question of the name opens the account of the director’s life ...”

“... was bound to their first language not just pragmatically but politically. But still: was Adelbert von Chamisso anguished by his move from French to German after the French Revolution? It seems unlikely. Even Conrad appears to have experienced his shift from Polish to English as a simple accident of biography. It was only in the European 20th century that an ...”

“... and is loosely modelled on the manifesto of Dogme 95, the collective of film-makers headed by Lars vonTrier who took on the excesses of Hollywood with a ‘vow of chastity’ that included the use of hand-held cameras and the rejection of elaborate costumes, lighting and music. The rules contain nothing especially ...”

“... to consider practitioners of cinéma vérité like Frederick Wiseman or provocateurs like Lars vonTrier, the entirety of home video, porn, surveillance, webcams and reality TV, or the nature of camera-induced celebrity, without reference to Warhol’s work. He has had a retroactive effect on film history as ...”

“... invention to a minimum. Don’t develop. Don’t explore relationships. The Dogme manifesto – Lars vonTrier was the most famous of the signatories, though he didn’t make the most successful film made according to Dogme principles, which was Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen – wasn’t really a vow of chastity but ...”

“... might ask whether Kidman merits such a tribute – at least for now. Lauren Bacall, her co-star in Lars vonTrier’s Dogville (2003), denied that Kidman was a ‘screen legend’: ‘She can’t be a legend, you have to be older.’ Thomson is not dealing in legend, though, but in the power of desire. Kidman isn’t ...”

“... Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft rubbing shoulders with Kafka and Bruno Schulz, and Will Self and Lars vonTrier with Carrington and Anna Kavan, as well as St Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Philip K. Dick, Walt Disney and J.R.R. Tolkien. Her cast of ‘imagined puppets’ ranges from the entertainers in Ben Jonson’s ...”

“... up in this context tend to be better known to mainstream audiences: Neil LaBute, Michael Haneke, Lars VonTrier. But it’s Nelson’s thoughts about the stuff that flickers in the middle that bears most directly on writers of memoir. The idea, for example, that if we can see the artist is suffering, that makes it OK ...”

“... for this exercise is the Dogme 95 manifesto issued by a group of Danish filmmakers including Lars vonTrier and Thomas Vinterberg, but the similarities are not close. The Dogme ‘vow of chastity’ was really a vow of poverty, a way of making films cheaply without giving an inch of the high aesthetico-moral ...”

“... a similarly desperate youth. At least he does not go as far as his unhappy Danish contemporary, Lars vonTrier, who effectively ostracised himself by observing that he could sometimes understand Hitler (as though anyone could understand!).But all of this – the essay or essays scattered throughout this enormous ...”