'90s Week: Even though it was kind of a joke, these gritty digital video undertakings were essential challenges to commercial cinema. In the early ’90s, Francis Ford Coppola predicted the future: ...
One of the most hilarious -- and, it turns out, promising -- developments in the film world in the past few years has been the launching of Dogme 95, a Danish filmmakers' collective that upon its ...
To call a movie the most accessible film ever made by the Dogme 95 group is not merely damning with faint praise. It also threatens to alienate the two segments of the population who might consider ...
Thomas Vinterberg is the guest of honor at Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival where, this evening, he hosted a screening of his second feature Festen. Directed by Vinterberg from a screenplay he co-wrote ...
It’s been 10 years since Lars von Trier made a great proclamation on stage at the Odeon Theatre in Paris, announcing Dogme 95 and The Vows of Chastity. His red fliers boldly opened, “Dogme 95 is a ...
Thirty years after Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg gave the arthouse movie world a much-needed kick in the pants with the Dogma 95, also known as Dogme 95, movement, a new generation of Nordic ...
Ten years ago, Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg decided to forget everything they knew about filmmaking. Looking for a way to break what they considered bad habits behind the ...
At a film festival over the weekend I watched three Dogme 95 films Idioterne by Lars von Trier, The King Is Alive by Kristian Levring and Fuckland by Jose Luis Marques. I was completly blown away by ...