Lars von Trier Is a Poser

By Steven Flores
November 04, 2010
07:21 PM

What a pretentious asshole. Yet, he is my favorite pretentious asshole. I want to be a great filmmaker like him.
Reply
- LEAVE A COMMENT
  
  Or log in and post using your Criterion.com account.
  
  You are logged in to your Criterion.com account as . Log out.

By Dan
November 04, 2010
10:49 PM

"Best film director in the world"? I sincerely hope he means as the present and regardless of that he still isn't as good as he thinks.
Reply
- LEAVE A COMMENT
  
  Or log in and post using your Criterion.com account.
  
  You are logged in to your Criterion.com account as . Log out.

By Josh
November 05, 2010
05:43 AM

Douche chill!
Reply
- LEAVE A COMMENT
  
  Or log in and post using your Criterion.com account.
  
  You are logged in to your Criterion.com account as . Log out.

By David Kelly
November 05, 2010
10:29 AM

God, when will people let that quote die? He was JOKING. If you actually see the press conference footage from Cannes, he was being attacked, and he was smirking and being sarcastic. He was kidding. He and Dafoe were laughing and joking a lot. Dafoe even said right then, "I enjoy his sense of humor." And he isn't "posing" any more than any other famous director. The young kids LOVE PT Anderson, and he's the biggest poser there is!
Reply
- LEAVE A COMMENT
  
  Or log in and post using your Criterion.com account.
  
  You are logged in to your Criterion.com account as . Log out.

By Devlin
November 05, 2010
12:55 PM

David, I think the use of "poser" here is a pun. And Criterion, who clearly loves von Trier (3 movies!), is making fun of those who are making fun of him. Everyone now knows that what he said at Cannes was supposed to be funny....
Reply
- LEAVE A COMMENT
  
  Or log in and post using your Criterion.com account.
  
  You are logged in to your Criterion.com account as . Log out.

By Connor
November 05, 2010
12:59 PM

SEXY LARS. Also @Devlin, thank you soo much!
Reply
- LEAVE A COMMENT
  
  Or log in and post using your Criterion.com account.
  
  You are logged in to your Criterion.com account as . Log out.

By David Kelly
November 05, 2010
02:19 PM

Well, I was referring more to the first few user comments in this thread than to Criterion.
Reply
- LEAVE A COMMENT
  
  Or log in and post using your Criterion.com account.
  
  You are logged in to your Criterion.com account as . Log out.

By Hayley Cameron
November 05, 2010
04:47 PM

After David Lynch, he is the best director in the world at the moment. He was being cheekily funny when he said this though. I adore him.
Reply
- LEAVE A COMMENT
  
  Or log in and post using your Criterion.com account.
  
  You are logged in to your Criterion.com account as . Log out.

By Travis Low
November 06, 2010
12:10 AM

Ha! Any self-proclaimed "best director in the world" is clearly not so. What an arrogant ass! He doesn't even approach the master filmmakers (alive or dead). Not even close to living contemporaries like Lynch, PT Anderson, Haneke, or Herzog...and nowhere near the older greats like Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, etc. A bit insulting. Also, I thought that "Antichrist" was pretty ineffective, meaningless, and overly gratuitous. I can handle the images he throws out there, just can't handle that they serve relatively little purpose.
Reply
- LEAVE A COMMENT
  
  Or log in and post using your Criterion.com account.
  
  You are logged in to your Criterion.com account as . Log out.

By Dr. Crawford
November 06, 2010
11:56 AM

I believe Mr. Von Trier once said, "My film is not about the Antichrist--it is the Antichrist."
Reply
- LEAVE A COMMENT
  
  Or log in and post using your Criterion.com account.
  
  You are logged in to your Criterion.com account as . Log out.

By mickey m
November 11, 2010
01:24 AM

DR. C - smack on with the Coppola reference!!!
Reply
- LEAVE A COMMENT
  
  Or log in and post using your Criterion.com account.
  
  You are logged in to your Criterion.com account as . Log out.

Or log in and post using your Criterion.com account.

You are logged in to your Criterion.com account as . Log out.

The Criterion Collection