Ahmed El-Shenawi, the Egyptian-born actor whose character delightfully announces that a slithering helping of “snake surprise” is about to be served in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, has died. He was 75.
El-Shenawi died Feb. 1 in Chelsea, London, his daughter, Eman El-Shenawi, told The Hollywood Reporter. He had been in the hospital for an operation to repair a fracture and developed an infection that led to sepsis, she said.
El-Shenawi also portrayed a prisoner who inherits a radio in Alan Parker’s harrowing Midnight Express (1978), starring Brad Davis, and he had the pivotal role of the therapist who hypnotizes the detective (Michael Elphick) in The Element of Crime (1984) — Lars von Trier’s first feature and the first in his Europa trilogy. Both movies played at Cannes.
“I believe his brief but impactful moments of fame resonated so much among many,” his daughter said.
In Steven Spielberg’s Temple of Doom (1984), the extremely large El-Shenawi,...
El-Shenawi died Feb. 1 in Chelsea, London, his daughter, Eman El-Shenawi, told The Hollywood Reporter. He had been in the hospital for an operation to repair a fracture and developed an infection that led to sepsis, she said.
El-Shenawi also portrayed a prisoner who inherits a radio in Alan Parker’s harrowing Midnight Express (1978), starring Brad Davis, and he had the pivotal role of the therapist who hypnotizes the detective (Michael Elphick) in The Element of Crime (1984) — Lars von Trier’s first feature and the first in his Europa trilogy. Both movies played at Cannes.
“I believe his brief but impactful moments of fame resonated so much among many,” his daughter said.
In Steven Spielberg’s Temple of Doom (1984), the extremely large El-Shenawi,...
- 3/9/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mubi has unveiled their December 2023 lineup, featuring notable new releases such as Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents, Argentina’s Oscar this year; the Lily Gladstone-led drama The Unknown Country; Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts; and the José González documentary A Tiger in Paradise. Additional highlights include films from Olivier Assayas, Takeshi Kitano, Jean-Luc Godard, Kelly Reichardt, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, the Shaw Browers, Lars von Trier, Arnaud Desplechin, and more.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
December 1st
The House that Jack Built, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
Breaking the Waves, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
The Element of Crime, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
Europa, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
Epidemic, directed...
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December 1st
The House that Jack Built, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
Breaking the Waves, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
The Element of Crime, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
Europa, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
Epidemic, directed...
- 11/29/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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It was only a few days ago that the Criterion Collection had a surprise flash sale. The home video company’s entire catalog was slashed down to 50% off list prices. While that sale only lasted for 24 hours, there are a number of titles that are still on sale for half-off at Amazon.
We rounded up the best deals on Criterion Collection releases, including Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing,” Dennis Hopper’s “Easy Rider,” Whit Stillman’s “The Last Days of Disco” and much more. In fact, even a few boxed sets are half off, such as Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “The Dekalog” and Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology.
Ahead, check out the best Criterion Blu-ray discs currently on sale for 50% off at Amazon:
‘Do the Right Thing...
It was only a few days ago that the Criterion Collection had a surprise flash sale. The home video company’s entire catalog was slashed down to 50% off list prices. While that sale only lasted for 24 hours, there are a number of titles that are still on sale for half-off at Amazon.
We rounded up the best deals on Criterion Collection releases, including Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing,” Dennis Hopper’s “Easy Rider,” Whit Stillman’s “The Last Days of Disco” and much more. In fact, even a few boxed sets are half off, such as Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “The Dekalog” and Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology.
Ahead, check out the best Criterion Blu-ray discs currently on sale for 50% off at Amazon:
‘Do the Right Thing...
- 10/20/2023
- by Anna Tingley and Rudie Obias
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi has acquired 11 films by Lars von Trier for North America, including the director’s Dogme 95 entry The Idiots. It will release a new uncut 4K restoration of the film June 16 theatrically timed to its 25th anniversary, followed by an exclusive streaming release.
Other titles, most newly restored, include Dogville (2003), The Five Obstructions (2003), Manderlay (2005), The Boss of it All (2006), Breaking the Waves (1996), the Europa Trilogy, Antichrist (2009) and Dancer in the Dark (2000). Some are streaming on Mubi now, others will roll out on through September 2025.
Mubi acquired new restorations of von Trier series, The Kingdom Seasons 1 and 2, along with its latest season, The Kingdom Exodus in 2022.
TrustNordisk brokered the deal with Mubi.
The Idiots, which premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, was made under the Dogme 95 school started by von Trier and other Danish filmmakers. It centers on a commune, whose members aim to disrupt...
Other titles, most newly restored, include Dogville (2003), The Five Obstructions (2003), Manderlay (2005), The Boss of it All (2006), Breaking the Waves (1996), the Europa Trilogy, Antichrist (2009) and Dancer in the Dark (2000). Some are streaming on Mubi now, others will roll out on through September 2025.
Mubi acquired new restorations of von Trier series, The Kingdom Seasons 1 and 2, along with its latest season, The Kingdom Exodus in 2022.
TrustNordisk brokered the deal with Mubi.
The Idiots, which premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, was made under the Dogme 95 school started by von Trier and other Danish filmmakers. It centers on a commune, whose members aim to disrupt...
- 5/12/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Lars von Trier has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 66, per a statement from his representatives. The filmmaker is receiving treatment and will be able to finish his next project, the highly anticipated third season of “The Kingdom,” but will be keeping a lower public profile in the future.
“Lars is in good spirits and is being treated for his symptoms — and given treatment so he can complete ‘Riget Exodus,’” the statement said. “The illness means that Lars will only take part in interviews to a limited extent until the premiere later in the year.”
Von Trier has been a force to be reckoned with in the arthouse community since he burst onto the scene with “The Element of Crime” in 1984. His debut feature earned him a Palme d’Or nomination at the Cannes Film Festival that year and established him as a purveyor of dark,...
“Lars is in good spirits and is being treated for his symptoms — and given treatment so he can complete ‘Riget Exodus,’” the statement said. “The illness means that Lars will only take part in interviews to a limited extent until the premiere later in the year.”
Von Trier has been a force to be reckoned with in the arthouse community since he burst onto the scene with “The Element of Crime” in 1984. His debut feature earned him a Palme d’Or nomination at the Cannes Film Festival that year and established him as a purveyor of dark,...
- 8/8/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Oscar-nominated, Cannes Palme d’Or winning Danish director Lars von Trier has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
Trier’s long-time producer Louise Vesth at Zentropa Entertainment put out a statement on Monday announcing the diagnosis with the director’s blessing.
“In agreement with Lars von Trier, we want to inform you that Lars was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease just before the summer holidays,” read the statement.
She said Trier would continue to work on his upcoming series The Kingdom Exodus, the third and final instalment of his rebooted 1990s cult supernatural TV show The Kingdom which is due to world premiere at Venice at the end of August.
“In order to avoid any speculation about his health leading up to the premiere, Zentropa has sent out this short statement to the Danish press,” continued her statement.
“Lars is in good spirits and is being treated for his symptoms...
Trier’s long-time producer Louise Vesth at Zentropa Entertainment put out a statement on Monday announcing the diagnosis with the director’s blessing.
“In agreement with Lars von Trier, we want to inform you that Lars was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease just before the summer holidays,” read the statement.
She said Trier would continue to work on his upcoming series The Kingdom Exodus, the third and final instalment of his rebooted 1990s cult supernatural TV show The Kingdom which is due to world premiere at Venice at the end of August.
“In order to avoid any speculation about his health leading up to the premiere, Zentropa has sent out this short statement to the Danish press,” continued her statement.
“Lars is in good spirits and is being treated for his symptoms...
- 8/8/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Lars von Trier has not officially announced a new project since he shocked Cannes again (again) with 2018’s serial-killer saga “The House That Jack Built.” For his next project, as announced by Zentropa Productions on Thursday, von Trier will be returning to the cult hospital series that established his TV presence in the mid-1990s, “The Kingdom.” Set in the neurosurgical ward of a Copenhagan hospital, the series, now dubbed “The Kingdom Exodus,” will return for a third and final season in 2022. Expected to shoot next year, the new revamp of “The Kingdom” will consist of five hour-long episodes. Check out videos teasing the return below.
Producers say the new “Kingdom” will contain a mix of new and old characters from the original, which followed the idiosyncratic staff of the Danish hospital and their encounters with the supernatural and unexplainable. A third season of the show, which ended in 1997, was...
Producers say the new “Kingdom” will contain a mix of new and old characters from the original, which followed the idiosyncratic staff of the Danish hospital and their encounters with the supernatural and unexplainable. A third season of the show, which ended in 1997, was...
- 12/17/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Bellaiche spent 20 years as a manager of international relations at the Danish Film Institute.
Lissy Bellaiche, a well-known figure in the Danish film industry, passed away on March 5 at the age of 77.
Bellaiche spent 20 years as a manager in international relations at the Danish Film Institute before becoming a festival consultant for TrustNordisk.
During her time at the Danish Film Institute she significantly advanced cooperation between the Scandinavian film institutes.
Bellaiche was also a frequent jury-member at festivals around the world, including San Sebastian, Berlin, Istanbul and Karlovy Vary.
Lizette Gram Mygind, festival consultant for the Danish Film Institute, told...
Lissy Bellaiche, a well-known figure in the Danish film industry, passed away on March 5 at the age of 77.
Bellaiche spent 20 years as a manager in international relations at the Danish Film Institute before becoming a festival consultant for TrustNordisk.
During her time at the Danish Film Institute she significantly advanced cooperation between the Scandinavian film institutes.
Bellaiche was also a frequent jury-member at festivals around the world, including San Sebastian, Berlin, Istanbul and Karlovy Vary.
Lizette Gram Mygind, festival consultant for the Danish Film Institute, told...
- 3/7/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Blame (Quinn Shephard)
Written, directed, edited, and starring 22-year-old Quinn Shephard, Blame premiered at Tribeca Film Festival last spring. We said in our review, “It’s an impressive debut feature that’s confident and assured, yet feels less like a feature film and more like an effective television drama with a few well-drawn characters and a multi-episode arc. Its asymmetric narrative doesn’t always work as it withholds information...
Blame (Quinn Shephard)
Written, directed, edited, and starring 22-year-old Quinn Shephard, Blame premiered at Tribeca Film Festival last spring. We said in our review, “It’s an impressive debut feature that’s confident and assured, yet feels less like a feature film and more like an effective television drama with a few well-drawn characters and a multi-episode arc. Its asymmetric narrative doesn’t always work as it withholds information...
- 1/12/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
In a career fixated on the machinations of filmmaking presented through both a carnal and political eye, Brian De Palma’s fascinations converged idyllically with Blow Out. In his ode to the conceit of Blow Up — Michelangelo Antonioni’s deeply influential English-language debut, released 15 years prior — as well as the aural intrigue of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, De Palma constructs a conspiracy...
Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
In a career fixated on the machinations of filmmaking presented through both a carnal and political eye, Brian De Palma’s fascinations converged idyllically with Blow Out. In his ode to the conceit of Blow Up — Michelangelo Antonioni’s deeply influential English-language debut, released 15 years prior — as well as the aural intrigue of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, De Palma constructs a conspiracy...
- 5/5/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
More than 30 years after his first feature, The Element of Crime, Lars von Trier is working on another film involving a serial killer. That 1984 debut focuses on a detective pursuing someone called the "Lotto Murderer," while the new feature will instead be concentrated on a serial killer, with the audience experiencing his story from his Pov. Titled The House That Jack Built, the project has been in development for a few years, initially planned as a TV series. Now Deadline reports Matt Dillon has been cast as the title character. The actor will be joined on screen by Bruno Ganz, playing a mysterious figure who is engaged in regular conversations with Jack. According to the official synopsis, the movie is set in America in the 1970s, though it follows...
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- 11/2/2016
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Lars von Trier‘s deep affection for the films of Andrei Tarkovsky is no secret. After all, Antichrist was dedicated to the legendary Soviet filmmaker. His early drama The Element of Crime perhaps borrows the most from Tarkovsky’s work, but the rest of filmography is littered with additional references and homages. To help put them all in one concise form, we have a great new video essay by Titouan Ropert that shows side-by-side comparisons.
“Have you ever seen a film called the Mirror? I was hypnotised! I’ve seen it 20 times,” von Trier told Time Out around the release of Antichrist. “It’s the closest I’ve got to a religion – to me he is God. And if I didn’t dedicate the film to Tarkovsky, then everyone would say I was stealing from him. If you are stealing, then dedicate.” He even went a step further with Paste,...
“Have you ever seen a film called the Mirror? I was hypnotised! I’ve seen it 20 times,” von Trier told Time Out around the release of Antichrist. “It’s the closest I’ve got to a religion – to me he is God. And if I didn’t dedicate the film to Tarkovsky, then everyone would say I was stealing from him. If you are stealing, then dedicate.” He even went a step further with Paste,...
- 10/24/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Each week, the fine folks at Fandor add a number of films to their Criterion Picks area, which will then be available to subscribers for the following twelve days. This week, the Criterion Picks focus on 8 mystery films.
Secrets, lies, clues and questionable motives: follow these films as they insist on (or resist) throwing light on the dark corners of human nature.
Don’t have a Fandor subscription? They offer a free trial membership.
Confidentially Yours, the French Crime film by François Truffaut
When a real estate agent is framed for the murders of his wife and her lover, it is up to his faithful secretary to solve the mystery.
The Element of Crime, the Danish Crime film by Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier’s stunning debut film is the story of Fisher, an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer with a taste for young girls.
Secrets, lies, clues and questionable motives: follow these films as they insist on (or resist) throwing light on the dark corners of human nature.
Don’t have a Fandor subscription? They offer a free trial membership.
Confidentially Yours, the French Crime film by François Truffaut
When a real estate agent is framed for the murders of his wife and her lover, it is up to his faithful secretary to solve the mystery.
The Element of Crime, the Danish Crime film by Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier’s stunning debut film is the story of Fisher, an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer with a taste for young girls.
- 12/8/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
★★☆☆☆ The very fact that the lead star of Vince Woods' hardboiled, alternative seventies crime drama Harrigan - British actor Stephen Tompkinson - is best-known for his work in several prime-time TV dramas gives a fair indication of the scale of this low-budget first feature. That's not to say that Woods lacks ambition; Harrigan is, for the most part, a serviceable genre piece that skews history for its own means, creating a northern dystopia rife with criminality and racial distrust. Unfortunately, such world-building exercises often require a certain level of funding, and there's something undeniably televisual about proceedings.
Following an ill-fated stint fighting corruption in British-held Hong Kong, self-styled detective Harrigan (Tompkinson) returns home to Newcastle to find not only the city but the entire country up to its neck in economic woe and social disorder. As the maverick cop rejoins his former constabulary, he finds the force on its...
Following an ill-fated stint fighting corruption in British-held Hong Kong, self-styled detective Harrigan (Tompkinson) returns home to Newcastle to find not only the city but the entire country up to its neck in economic woe and social disorder. As the maverick cop rejoins his former constabulary, he finds the force on its...
- 9/24/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Lars von Trier's would-be apocalyptic take on the end of the world is a narcissistic and humourless exercise
Woody Allen once said: "If I had to live my life again I'd do everything the same, except that I wouldn't see The Magus." By the same token, if I was told that the end of the world was nigh, I wouldn't waste my time seeing Melancholia, Lars von Trier's celebration of the imminent extinction of planet Earth. I'd do something more pleasurable like taking an axe to a cigarette machine and smoking my first fag for 40 years, an activity I still associate with movie-going.
However, I did nearly end my own life last Tuesday by the exertion entailed in walking from the eastern side of Covent Garden to the western end of Soho in 10 minutes, due to the distributors' bad planning of the press viewings. Breathing what seemed like my last,...
Woody Allen once said: "If I had to live my life again I'd do everything the same, except that I wouldn't see The Magus." By the same token, if I was told that the end of the world was nigh, I wouldn't waste my time seeing Melancholia, Lars von Trier's celebration of the imminent extinction of planet Earth. I'd do something more pleasurable like taking an axe to a cigarette machine and smoking my first fag for 40 years, an activity I still associate with movie-going.
However, I did nearly end my own life last Tuesday by the exertion entailed in walking from the eastern side of Covent Garden to the western end of Soho in 10 minutes, due to the distributors' bad planning of the press viewings. Breathing what seemed like my last,...
- 10/1/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Nearly every weekend since its premiere in Cannes, Lars von Trier's Melancholia has opened in theaters in this or that country around the world, and today it hits the UK. It's also screened at a good number of festivals, including Toronto, and sees its first date in the States at the New York Film Festival on Monday. The following Friday, it'll be available on demand from Magnolia before finally opening in Us theaters in November.
When and wherever you catch it, you may, like Farran Nehme, find the experience "unexpectedly marvelous. Divided like Gaul into three parts: a magnificently surreal flash-forward to the apocalypse that is about to hit in the form of a planet colliding with our own; a midsection showing the slow-motion cataclysm that is the wedding of Justine (Kirsten Dunst) to Michael (Alexander Skarsgård); and a finale focusing on Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), Justine's sister, as the...
When and wherever you catch it, you may, like Farran Nehme, find the experience "unexpectedly marvelous. Divided like Gaul into three parts: a magnificently surreal flash-forward to the apocalypse that is about to hit in the form of a planet colliding with our own; a midsection showing the slow-motion cataclysm that is the wedding of Justine (Kirsten Dunst) to Michael (Alexander Skarsgård); and a finale focusing on Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), Justine's sister, as the...
- 10/1/2011
- MUBI
Lars von Trier's inclination to think and say things that seem unusual and insensitive is vital to the genius of a director who's here to trouble us, not entertain
The plan of accounting for Lars von Trier in just 700 words or so is fanciful; it cannot be done. Added to which, I haven't yet seen Melancholia, which may be one of his most personal, important and infuriating films to date.
So, let's begin with that trio of attributes, and notice that Von Trier is one of those movie directors beset by a manic-depressive personality. Like it or not, he reckons we are in a degraded and fatally ill culture in which the artist or the film-maker is bound to do an autopsy on the decay. He must shock, offend and get under our skin, if only to prove that the old diagram of skin, skeleton, heart and soul still functions.
The plan of accounting for Lars von Trier in just 700 words or so is fanciful; it cannot be done. Added to which, I haven't yet seen Melancholia, which may be one of his most personal, important and infuriating films to date.
So, let's begin with that trio of attributes, and notice that Von Trier is one of those movie directors beset by a manic-depressive personality. Like it or not, he reckons we are in a degraded and fatally ill culture in which the artist or the film-maker is bound to do an autopsy on the decay. He must shock, offend and get under our skin, if only to prove that the old diagram of skin, skeleton, heart and soul still functions.
- 9/22/2011
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
Cannes, France (Ahn Entertainment) - Even after apologizing, filmmaker Lars von Trier still has been declared a persona non grate at the Cannes Film Festival for his Nazi comments. The Danish director said sorry "if he hurt someone" with his remarks at the press conference of his film "Melancholia," but the festival's board of directors said it was still unacceptable.
Von Trier, whose film "The Element of Crime" won a technical award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, tried to joke at the press conference of his film that he was a Nazi and that he sympathized with Hitler.
His publicity team quickly issued a statement on his behalf to apologize for the joke, but the damage has been done. The film's Argentinean distributor, DC, canceled their contract to release the film in the country.
And now, the Cannes Film Festival organizers have also decided to ban the director.
Von Trier, whose film "The Element of Crime" won a technical award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, tried to joke at the press conference of his film that he was a Nazi and that he sympathized with Hitler.
His publicity team quickly issued a statement on his behalf to apologize for the joke, but the damage has been done. The film's Argentinean distributor, DC, canceled their contract to release the film in the country.
And now, the Cannes Film Festival organizers have also decided to ban the director.
- 5/19/2011
- icelebz.com
Perhaps, in the early 1980s, while still in film school, Danish director Lars von Trier saw one of the Us’ highest grossing feel-good comedies, like Risky Business or Mr. Mom. And then decided to make exact opposite of that film for the rest of his life. If such a thing did happen, he’s kept his promise, churning out movies that are best accompanied by a barbiturate overdose while Gloomy Sunday plays on a phonograph. His latest project, Antichrist, is no exception. It tells the story of a couple who, after losing their son, travel to a secluded cabin, where the wife deals with her grief and guilt by masturbating in front of Satanic Bambi extras and mutilating her husband’s crotch. Tonight, Sound and Sight takes a look at von Trier’s controversial new film, as well as 1984’s The Element of Crime, the director’s debut feature.
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- 11/11/2010
- by admin
- SoundOnSight
Nominate Sound On Sight Today! Perhaps, in the early 1980s, while still in film school, Danish director Lars von Trier saw one of the Us’ highest grossing feel-good comedies, like Risky Business or Mr. Mom. And then decided to make exact opposite of that film for the rest of his life. If such a thing did happen, he’s kept his promise, churning out movies that are best accompanied by a barbiturate overdose while Gloomy Sunday plays on a phonograph. His latest project, Antichrist, is no exception. It tells the story of a couple who, after losing their son, travel to a secluded cabin, where the wife deals with her grief and guilt by masturbating in front of Satanic Bambi extras and mutilating her husband’s crotch. Tonight, Sound and Sight takes a look at von Trier’s controversial new film, as well as 1984’s The Element of Crime, the director’s debut feature.
- 10/13/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
With news today from Variety that the Criterion Collection will release some IFC Films titles on DVD and Blu-ray (including A Christmas Tale and Gomorrah in Nov. and Che and Hunger in Dec.) I'm curious what other IFC titles should get the coveted Criterion treatment. 1) In The Loop - Not only would director Armando Iannucci do a great commentary but also included could be episodes of the inspiration for the film, the BBC series The Thick of It. Essay could be written by David Frost (hey, this is a wish list, I can dream). 2) Antichrist - Yes, sex sells, but there's more to why Criterion should take on Lars von Trier's horror. Having a good track record with the director already, having done amazing releases for The Element of Crime...
- 9/2/2009
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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