Screening some of the most highly anticipated films of the season, along with special programs and series focusing on directors and avant-garde work, the 49th New York Film Festival starts on ...

In Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, a preteen Alvy Singer sits in a doctor’s office, too depressed to do his homework. “What’s the point?” asks Alvy. The dialogue is precise: Alvy says, “The universe is ...

An arthouse take on the 50s B-movie When Worlds Collide, Melancholia is like a filmic embodiment of that irritating platitude, “Cheer up – it’s not the end of the world!” For Kirsten Dunst’s ...

Noun: 1. Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy. 2. A mental condition marked by persistent depression and ill-founded fears. As the opening chords of Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” fill the theater ...

The Danish director's brooding contemplation of the planet's demise is a bit of a bore, writes Todd McCarthy. By Todd McCarthy CANNES — Lars von Trier manages to turn the end of the world into a bit ...

Writer-director Lars von Trier gives you two movies for the price of one in “Melancholia” and, shock of shocks, both of them live up to (or down to) the promise of the title. One involves a wedding; ...

"The Artist" and "The King's Speech" also among the winners. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief BERLIN — Lars von Trier‘s apocalyptic drama Melancholia blew them away at the 24th European Film ...

The world may be popularly predicted to end in 2012 but that's not soon enough for Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, whose latest film Melancholia spectacularly finishes off earth and all life on it.

As a director who’s done everything from a modern movie opera with Bjork to a Nicole Kidman melodrama played on a bare set, Lars von Trier stands as one of cinema’s leading modernists. One of its most ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...