Like a hulking doorstop of a classic novel, Lars von Trier’s 2003 film Dogville is an endurance test, a summit to be climbed with great effort. And celebrating the 20th anniversary (along with a 4K ...

“The residents of Dogville were good, honest folks, and they liked their township,” narrator John Hurt says in a voice of sequins and gravel without betraying the irony art film imp Lars von Trier ...

Imagine the director as God. Lars von Trier does, or so it seems in "Dogville," his most recent judgment on the unworthiness of the human race. Filmed on a nearly bare stage bereft of walls -- a few ...

The Scarlet Letter, D.H. Lawrence noted, “isn’t a pleasant, pretty romance. It’s a sort of parable, an earthly story with a hellish meaning.” So too Danish director Lars von Trier’s English-language ...

Danish director Lars von Trier has never been to the United States. Yet from his latest film fantasy of America, it would be fair to conclude he feels it's a country gone to the dogs. Von Trier's ...

Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours” — ...

Lars Von Trier has come to bury America, not to praise it, with “Dogville,” the Danish director’s first film in a trilogy about a country he’s never set foot in and has said he’s afraid to visit. You ...