In 1967, Danish director Jorgen Leth made a short film called The Perfect Human, a mock-anthropological look at contemporary man with mystical overtones. Shot in crisp black and white, it was all very ...

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05/08/2003 - The documentary by the Danish director and Jørgen Leth presents us with five different versions for a remake of von Trier's notorious Dogville The “Upstream” competitive section at the ...

“The Five Obstructions” is a complete original. This ingenious, almost indescribable film won’t remind you of anything else because there’s nothing else like it. In only 90 minutes it encourages you ...

Koch Lorber Films has acquired its first film for theatrical release, Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth‘s critically acclaimed documentary “The Five Obstructions.” The company acquired both theatrical ...

Lecture / Emily Carpenter (De fem benspænd). It should come as no surprise to viewers of Lars von Trier's masterfully wrenching films that the filmmaker who pushed Emily Watson into sexual defilement ...

Project will see Von Trier deconstruct the film making process by forcing Scorsese to remake a film five times. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The project has echoes of the Dogme 95 movement, ...

Lars Von Trier, the Danish auteur OF Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark and Dogville, positively revels in his reputation as a demonic director, a sadist-artist. He’s known to torture actors–and ...

Good Dogme: Lars Van Trier, in The Five Obstructions. A compelling mix of documentary, cinematic homage, and pure, unbridled sadism: Danish bad boy Lars von Trier enlists his idol, Jørgen Leth, to ...

Lars von Trier is playing a new game, but this time he’s not aiming his darts at you and me. At least not directly. He’s aiming them at fellow Danish filmmaker and former mentor Jørgen Leth. Von Trier ...

Playing the part of a naïve anthropologist, Leth attempts to embrace the cunning challenges set forth by the devious and sneaky Trier. Five times Leth will have to deal with limitations, commands and ...