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''I do have a masochistic streak'' Gainsbourg spent two months in crisis making Antichrist .

Lars von Trier's deeply disturbing, often ridiculous film will nonetheless shake you.

One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers has long been Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier.

The events and circumstances that fall under the umbrella of popular culture have the ability to shine light on human opinion and emotion: How we react to certain scenarios we see in a television show, how we respond when particular buttons are pushed by events in a film or song lyrics, what we see of ourselves or others in a work of art.

FOLLOWING her charitable appearance at a US Congress seminar about violence against women last week, Nicole Kidman has been slammed by commentators who say her opinion is unworthy because her "sex roles betray women in the real world". The Independent on Sunday, among others, referred to moments in Kidman's career - she was raped in Dogville, had ...

The 38-year-old actress - daughter of Serge Gainsbourg, the French singer-songwriter/actor/director and Jane Birkin, the English actress/model/singer responsible for the coveted Hermes handbag - is starring in Lars von Trier's latest domestic-drama-meets-horror-flick "Antichrist" . She is also featured in the upcoming Balenciaga fragrange campaign, ...

Today's movies are full of bigname actors whose faces - and boxoffice draw - are certified commodities.

Dafoe, Gainsbourg commit the Original Sin in von Trier's perverse vision of Eden.

On the face of it, Nicole Kidman would seem to be a rum choice to be talking about violence against women.

The movie that scandalized Cannes finally arrives Stateside. Your move. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe in 'Antichrist' Lars Von Trier's "Antichrist" is a curious mash-up of cutting-edge torture-porn and good old porn-porn that fails on both fronts.

Actor heads to Washington in her role as a UN ambassador to support legislation aimed at tackling abuse Thursday, 22 October 2009 The Academy award-winning actor Nicole Kidman used an appearance before the US Congress to accuse Hollywood of contributing to violence against women by portraying them as sex objects.

NICOLE Kidman has admitted that Hollywood probaby shares some blame for violence against women but thinks movies also "offer solutions". Kidman, in her role as a UN goodwill ambassador for women's causes testified before Capitol Hill lawmakers in Washington's Congress today.

Lars von Trier 's doggedly outrageous, fearsomely ambitious two-hander is so desperate to make you feel something - if only a terrible sensation of nothingness - that it's almost poignant.

WorldNetDaily has no problem committing the offense of likening Barack Obama to the Antichrist .

The director of Antichrist is to go from gyno-horror to a 'psychological drama-cum-disaster movie' for his next project Far out a Lars von Trier at the 2009 Cannes film festival.

Willem Dafoe continues his streak of starring in absurdly controversial movies with the religio-porno-horror film 'Antichrist.' To get an idea of the kind of guy that Lars von Trier is, consider his statement at a press conference following the disastrous booed Cannes premiere of his new film "Antichrist": "I am the best director in the world." ...

Controversial Antichrist director Lars von Trier will next helm science fiction disaster film Planet Melancholia .

Starts Friday, October 23 at the Kendall Square Cinema A grieving couple retreat to 'Eden,' their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage.

However you assess the New York Film Festival, now in its 47th year, it certainly doesn't shy away from controversial films or directors.

Movies are confidence tricks played on willing victims. The bullets are blanks and the sex is faked, but we usually want to believe, as long as the lights are down, that it's all real.