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9 October 2011 6:02 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Motion posters are all the rage right now, and despite all of the ruckus regarding Lars von Trier recently, Magnolia is still pushing along his new film Melancholia for its release. In fact, if you want to watch it this evening, it's available On-Demand right now. In the meantime, Yahoo has debuted this new motion poster for the apocalyptic drama, starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland and Alexander Skarsgård. I love the glowing overlay of the star map and the brief bit of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" music as part of the poster, it finally captures the atmosphere of the film perfectly. Take a look! Justine (Dunst) and Michael (Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a party in the home of her sister (Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law. Meanwhile, the planet Melancholia, is heading towards Earth... Melancholia is both written & directed by controversial/brilliant Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, of films like Medea, »

- Alex Billington

5 October 2011 11:17 AM, PDT | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »

Lars von Trier hasn’t exactly shied away from the lime light this year. First, in a press conference to promote Melancholia, he publicly made odd statements about being related to Nazis and Hitler, then he was granted a persona non grata—from Cannes. Which means he is banned. Then he apologized and then he took those apologizes back. Now Lars von Trier will no longer give interviews from this day forth.

In a statement released by his publicist, Trier said,

Today at 2 pm I was questioned by the Police of North Zealand in connection with charges made by the prosecution of Grasse in France from August 2011 regarding a possible violation of prohibition in French law against justification of war crimes. The investigation covers comments made during the press conference in Cannes in May 2011. Due to these serious accusations I have realized that I do not possess the skills to »

- Mike Lee

27 September 2011 12:15 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Enjoy it while it lasts. Someone out there was listening to my rants about the lackluster posters for Lars von Trier's Melancholia. A new set of character posters for the indie drama have been released via Empire, and there are five for the main characters in the movie, and one for Lars von Trier himself. Yes, von Trier, persona non grata from Cannes, gets his own character poster, complete with his personalized stamp in the corner. There's also individual posters for Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland and Alexander Skarsgård. I really like this series, these are actually good - check them out! Justine (Dunst) and Michael (Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a party in the home of her sister (Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law. Meanwhile, the planet Melancholia, is heading towards Earth... Melancholia is both written & directed by controversial/brilliant Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, of films like Medea, »

- Alex Billington

3 items from 2011