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
Mubi has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month, including an epic six-film series dedicated to the brand new restorations of the films of Nina Menkes. The slate also includes a Brian De Palma double bill with Obsession and Body Double as well as Paul Schrader’s Hardcore.
Additional highlights include the Andrea Riseborough-led Please Baby Please, three films by Eugene Kotlyarenko, a Ghost in the Shell double bill, and, ahead of their release of Passages later this year, Ira Sach’s Little Men.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
March 1 – Glass Life, directed by Sara Cwynar | Brief Encounters
March 2 – The Great Sadness of Zohara, directed by Nina Menkes | Phantom Cinema: The Films of Nina Menkes
March 3 – Please Baby Please, directed by Amanda Kramer | Mubi Spotlight
March 4 – Hardcore, directed by Paul Schrader
March 5 – Kedi, directed by Ceyda Torun
March 6 – Magdalena Viraga, directed by...
Additional highlights include the Andrea Riseborough-led Please Baby Please, three films by Eugene Kotlyarenko, a Ghost in the Shell double bill, and, ahead of their release of Passages later this year, Ira Sach’s Little Men.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
March 1 – Glass Life, directed by Sara Cwynar | Brief Encounters
March 2 – The Great Sadness of Zohara, directed by Nina Menkes | Phantom Cinema: The Films of Nina Menkes
March 3 – Please Baby Please, directed by Amanda Kramer | Mubi Spotlight
March 4 – Hardcore, directed by Paul Schrader
March 5 – Kedi, directed by Ceyda Torun
March 6 – Magdalena Viraga, directed by...
- 2/21/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Venice Film Festival title “Music for Black Pigeons,” directed by Danish filmmakers Jørgen Leth, best known for “The Five Obstructions,” and “The Lost Leonardo” helmer Andreas Koefoed, has debuted its trailer with Variety.
The documentary, which premieres on Tuesday in Venice’s Out of Competition section, explores the lives and processes of some of the world’s most renowned and prolific jazz musicians, including Jakob Bro, Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Paul Motian and Midori Takada.
Leth, who has directed more than 40 films including landmark works such as “A Sunday in Hell” (1977) and the surrealist short “The Perfect Human” (1968), returns to Venice after his feature documentary “The Five Obstructions,” which he co-directed with Lars von Trier, screened on the Lido in 2003.
The footage in “Music for Black Pigeons” was shot over the course of 14 years, throughout North America, Europe and Japan. From the hours of recordings, Leth and Koefoed discovered intimate,...
The documentary, which premieres on Tuesday in Venice’s Out of Competition section, explores the lives and processes of some of the world’s most renowned and prolific jazz musicians, including Jakob Bro, Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Paul Motian and Midori Takada.
Leth, who has directed more than 40 films including landmark works such as “A Sunday in Hell” (1977) and the surrealist short “The Perfect Human” (1968), returns to Venice after his feature documentary “The Five Obstructions,” which he co-directed with Lars von Trier, screened on the Lido in 2003.
The footage in “Music for Black Pigeons” was shot over the course of 14 years, throughout North America, Europe and Japan. From the hours of recordings, Leth and Koefoed discovered intimate,...
- 9/3/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Sound of Metal writer/director Darius Marder joins Josh and Joe to discuss Lars Von Trier’s Breaking the Waves.
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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Place Beyond The Pines (2012)
Sound of Metal (2020)
Mank (2020)
Star Wars (1977)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Father (2020)
Breaking The Waves (1996)
Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)
Repo Man (1984)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Innerspace (1987)
The Celebration (1998)
The Five Obstructions (2003)
Europa (1991)
The Servant (1963)
The Go-Between (1971)
Dancer In The Dark (2000)
The Idiots (1998)
Dogville (2003)
Manderlay (2005)
Melancholia (2011)
Naked (1993)
Other Notable Items
CNN
Ricky Gervais
Riz Ahmed
Florian Zeller
Roger Ebert
Lars von Trier
Robby Müller
Jim Jarmusch
Daniël Bouquet
David Bowie
Dogme 95
Tomas Vinterburg
The Paprika Steen podcast episode
Emily Watson
Stellan Skarsgård
Joseph Losey
The Kingdom TV miniseries (1994)
Helena Bonham Carter
Bjork
Nicole Kidman
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Cannes Film Festival
Mike Leigh
Katrin Cartlidge
Nuart Theatre
Metrograph
This list is also available on Letterboxd.
The post Darius Marder...
Watch the Movie
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Place Beyond The Pines (2012)
Sound of Metal (2020)
Mank (2020)
Star Wars (1977)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Father (2020)
Breaking The Waves (1996)
Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)
Repo Man (1984)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Innerspace (1987)
The Celebration (1998)
The Five Obstructions (2003)
Europa (1991)
The Servant (1963)
The Go-Between (1971)
Dancer In The Dark (2000)
The Idiots (1998)
Dogville (2003)
Manderlay (2005)
Melancholia (2011)
Naked (1993)
Other Notable Items
CNN
Ricky Gervais
Riz Ahmed
Florian Zeller
Roger Ebert
Lars von Trier
Robby Müller
Jim Jarmusch
Daniël Bouquet
David Bowie
Dogme 95
Tomas Vinterburg
The Paprika Steen podcast episode
Emily Watson
Stellan Skarsgård
Joseph Losey
The Kingdom TV miniseries (1994)
Helena Bonham Carter
Bjork
Nicole Kidman
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Cannes Film Festival
Mike Leigh
Katrin Cartlidge
Nuart Theatre
Metrograph
This list is also available on Letterboxd.
The post Darius Marder...
- 2/23/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
From the people that brought you Pandemic Parade chapters 1-8, comes yet another thrilling episode featuring Jesse V. Johnson, Casper Kelly, Fred Dekker, Don Coscarelli, Daniel Noah, Elijah Wood and Blaire Bercy.
Please support the Hollywood Food Coalition. Text “Give” to 323.402.5704 or visit https://hofoco.org/donate!
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Wondrous Story of Birth a.k.a. The Birth of Triplets (1950)
Contagion (2011)
The Omega Man (1971)
Panic In The Streets (1950)
The Last Man On Earth (1964)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Innerspace (1987)
The Howling (1981)
The Invisible Man (2020)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Where Eagles Dare (1969)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965)
Murder On The Orient Express (1974)
Dr. No (1962)
From Russia With Love (1963)
Bellman and True (1987)
Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
Richard III (1995)
Titanic (1997)
Catch 22 (1970)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
The Graduate (1967)
1941 (1979)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Jaws (1975)
The Fortune (1975)
Carnal Knowledge (1970)
Manhattan...
Please support the Hollywood Food Coalition. Text “Give” to 323.402.5704 or visit https://hofoco.org/donate!
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Wondrous Story of Birth a.k.a. The Birth of Triplets (1950)
Contagion (2011)
The Omega Man (1971)
Panic In The Streets (1950)
The Last Man On Earth (1964)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Innerspace (1987)
The Howling (1981)
The Invisible Man (2020)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Where Eagles Dare (1969)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965)
Murder On The Orient Express (1974)
Dr. No (1962)
From Russia With Love (1963)
Bellman and True (1987)
Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
Richard III (1995)
Titanic (1997)
Catch 22 (1970)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
The Graduate (1967)
1941 (1979)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Jaws (1975)
The Fortune (1975)
Carnal Knowledge (1970)
Manhattan...
- 5/29/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
It’s hard to know exactly why football has had such a stranglehold on the public consciousness over the past few decades, but it would be a lot easier to figure out if there were always cats on the field.
Last night’s Monday Night Football game will be quickly lost to fans outside the Nfc East, but what will likely live on in future years will be the fact that, with five minutes to go in the 2nd quarter of a Cowboys-Giants game, a black cat scampered on the field.
Radio announcer Kevin Harlan’s 45-second call of the action spread like wildfire through social media, and deservedly so. Harlan’s just the best. (It would be easy to pinpoint this as a career highlight for him if he wasn’t already responsible for two of the best non-sports sports moments of the last few years: narrating...
Last night’s Monday Night Football game will be quickly lost to fans outside the Nfc East, but what will likely live on in future years will be the fact that, with five minutes to go in the 2nd quarter of a Cowboys-Giants game, a black cat scampered on the field.
Radio announcer Kevin Harlan’s 45-second call of the action spread like wildfire through social media, and deservedly so. Harlan’s just the best. (It would be easy to pinpoint this as a career highlight for him if he wasn’t already responsible for two of the best non-sports sports moments of the last few years: narrating...
- 11/5/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Hugh Gibson's The Stairs (2016) is exclusively showing August 9 – September 8, 2018 on Mubi in most countries in the world as part of the series Canada's Next Generation.One day in summer 2012, I was meeting at a Toronto health agency with around twenty clients and staff, many of who later appeared in The Stairs. We’d come to know each other during the prior year, and we discussed my unfolding documentary: who wanted to participate, what it might look like, what should be covered. Suddenly, someone interrupted: “Yeah, yeah, yeah… I wanna know, what will the movie’s ending be? How do you know if there’ll a happy ending?” I began to stammer… I didn’t have any answer. Then a client interjected, “That depends on us, doesn’t it?” That client’s name was Lisa. I’d intended for her to be a lead character, but soon after that meeting,...
- 8/8/2018
- MUBI
When Dustin "Cinnamon" Rowles assigned me to produce a canon of the top ten foreign language films of the aughts, I felt incredibly intimidated. When Dustin assured me that I was the critic for the job, as I had probably seen the most foreign films out of the entire staff, my anxiety only deepened. I admit that I watch a lot of foreign language flicks, thanks to Netflix, the American Cinematheque's wonderful programming, and owning a region-free DVD player. However, when I spoke to my cinema and media studies classmates and colleagues, I quickly began to realize that I had still missed a torrent of films that could have made this list (Caché, Downfall, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, Maria Full of Grace, and Werckmeister Harmonies to name a few). Moreover, to consolidate all the films I had seen over the past decade from all the non-English speaking countries around the world was,...
- 12/10/2009
- by Drew Morton
Palm Springs International Film Festival
PALM SPRINGS -- Taking a break between the second and third installments of his "USA: Land of Opportunities" trilogy, Lars von Trier goes for the jocular in "The Boss of It All", a slight and sprightly bit of fun that's not, however, without teeth. The Danish writer-director concocts a sort of Scandi "Office", gathering an able and willing ensemble for what he drolly describes in introductory voice-over as "a comedy, and harmless as such." It's also a delight. The film screened recently at the Palm Springs festival and is scheduled for limited stateside release in May, when it's sure to attract the von Trier faithful.
Avoiding the overt social commentary of the director's most recent work, "Boss" is perhaps closest in focus to "The Five Obstructions", his 2003 docu on the filmmaking process, in which von Trier played a devilishly entertaining game of one-upmanship with director Jorgen Leth. Here he casts a prankster's eye on actorly affectations, the director-actor relationship and the conventions of throwaway entertainment, all while lampooning the collective delusions of corporate culture.
The wonderful Jens Albinu (who starred in von Trier's 1998 comic drama "The Idiots") plays Kristoffer, an actor hired by businessman Ravn (Peter Gantzler) to play the owner of an IT company -- not onstage, but in the boardroom. During negotiations with Icelandic entrepreneur Finnur (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson), who wants to buy the firm, Kristoffer injects meaningful pauses into his "line readings" that all but stop the dealmaking cold. The perpetually unamused Finnur is convinced that all Danes are wacko. He doesn't know the half of it.
Wanting only to be loved, Ravn, a handsome and affable bear of a man, has for 10 years hidden his true status as the company's owner, pretending to be just another manager and inventing via e-mail a distant uberboss named Svend. Earnest thespian Kristoffer steps into the role with almost no "direction" from Ravn, variously dodging and playing along with the projected dreams and hostilities of the staff. Gorm (Casper Christensen) is given to violent outbursts, Mette (Louise Mieritz) is terrified whenever the copier whirs into action, assistant Heidi (Mia Lyhne) harbors deep feelings for Svend, while HR rep Lise (Iben Hjejle) not only encourages office sex but insists on it. Actor and Dogme filmmaking disciple Jean-Marc Barr plays a foreign employee who insists on speaking bungled and indecipherable Danish.
Determined to stay true to his "character," Kristoffer continually invokes one Antonio Stavro Gambini, the playwright he reveres above all others. Ravn, for reasons that become increasingly clear, prefers to keep things on the buzzword level, as vague as possible. Kristoffer hits his stride with some table-turning improv involving contracts.
The understated comic performances serve the material well, while Automavision, the credited cinematographer, keeps things aptly off-center with random computer-automated camera angles -- one of which von Trier calls to our attention as a "pointless zoom."
THE BOSS OF IT ALL
IFC Films/IFC First Take
A Zentropa Entertainments 21/Memfis Film Intl./Slot Machine/Lucky Red production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Lars von Trier
Producers: Meta Louise Foldager, Vibeke Windelov, Signe Jensen
Executive producers: Lene Borglum, Peter Albaek Jensen
Director of photography: Automavision
Costume designer: Manon Rasmussen
Editor: Molly Malene Stensgaard
Cast:
Kristoffer: Jens Albinus
Ravn: Peter Gantzler
Finnur: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Lise: Iben Hjejle
Mette: Louise Mieritz
Heidi A.: Mia Lyhne
Gorm: Casper Christensen
Spencer: Jean-Marc Barr
Interpreter: Benedikt Erlingsson.
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PALM SPRINGS -- Taking a break between the second and third installments of his "USA: Land of Opportunities" trilogy, Lars von Trier goes for the jocular in "The Boss of It All", a slight and sprightly bit of fun that's not, however, without teeth. The Danish writer-director concocts a sort of Scandi "Office", gathering an able and willing ensemble for what he drolly describes in introductory voice-over as "a comedy, and harmless as such." It's also a delight. The film screened recently at the Palm Springs festival and is scheduled for limited stateside release in May, when it's sure to attract the von Trier faithful.
Avoiding the overt social commentary of the director's most recent work, "Boss" is perhaps closest in focus to "The Five Obstructions", his 2003 docu on the filmmaking process, in which von Trier played a devilishly entertaining game of one-upmanship with director Jorgen Leth. Here he casts a prankster's eye on actorly affectations, the director-actor relationship and the conventions of throwaway entertainment, all while lampooning the collective delusions of corporate culture.
The wonderful Jens Albinu (who starred in von Trier's 1998 comic drama "The Idiots") plays Kristoffer, an actor hired by businessman Ravn (Peter Gantzler) to play the owner of an IT company -- not onstage, but in the boardroom. During negotiations with Icelandic entrepreneur Finnur (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson), who wants to buy the firm, Kristoffer injects meaningful pauses into his "line readings" that all but stop the dealmaking cold. The perpetually unamused Finnur is convinced that all Danes are wacko. He doesn't know the half of it.
Wanting only to be loved, Ravn, a handsome and affable bear of a man, has for 10 years hidden his true status as the company's owner, pretending to be just another manager and inventing via e-mail a distant uberboss named Svend. Earnest thespian Kristoffer steps into the role with almost no "direction" from Ravn, variously dodging and playing along with the projected dreams and hostilities of the staff. Gorm (Casper Christensen) is given to violent outbursts, Mette (Louise Mieritz) is terrified whenever the copier whirs into action, assistant Heidi (Mia Lyhne) harbors deep feelings for Svend, while HR rep Lise (Iben Hjejle) not only encourages office sex but insists on it. Actor and Dogme filmmaking disciple Jean-Marc Barr plays a foreign employee who insists on speaking bungled and indecipherable Danish.
Determined to stay true to his "character," Kristoffer continually invokes one Antonio Stavro Gambini, the playwright he reveres above all others. Ravn, for reasons that become increasingly clear, prefers to keep things on the buzzword level, as vague as possible. Kristoffer hits his stride with some table-turning improv involving contracts.
The understated comic performances serve the material well, while Automavision, the credited cinematographer, keeps things aptly off-center with random computer-automated camera angles -- one of which von Trier calls to our attention as a "pointless zoom."
THE BOSS OF IT ALL
IFC Films/IFC First Take
A Zentropa Entertainments 21/Memfis Film Intl./Slot Machine/Lucky Red production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Lars von Trier
Producers: Meta Louise Foldager, Vibeke Windelov, Signe Jensen
Executive producers: Lene Borglum, Peter Albaek Jensen
Director of photography: Automavision
Costume designer: Manon Rasmussen
Editor: Molly Malene Stensgaard
Cast:
Kristoffer: Jens Albinus
Ravn: Peter Gantzler
Finnur: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Lise: Iben Hjejle
Mette: Louise Mieritz
Heidi A.: Mia Lyhne
Gorm: Casper Christensen
Spencer: Jean-Marc Barr
Interpreter: Benedikt Erlingsson.
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Denmark threw its hat into the Academy Awards derby Friday, picking The Five Obstructions to enter the race for a foreign-language Oscar nomination. Directed by Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier, Obstructions was selected by reps from the Danish movie industry. The movie's selection is supported by the Danish Film Institute, DR TV, the Nordic Film and TV Fund and Eurimages. The movie details Leth's recreation of one of his first films, The Perfect Human, five times while von Trier sets obstructions, limitations and prohibitions on Leth's filmmaking on the five separate occasions. Obstructions is produced by Carsten Holst of Zentropa Real.
- 8/28/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Channel has acquired four documentaries from the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for the network's Docday programming block: The Five Obstructions, by Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier; The Garden, by Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash; Investigation Into the Invisible World, by Jean Michel Roux; and Screaming Men, by Mika Ronkainen.
- 3/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Indie distributor Koch Lorber Films has acquired North American rights to indie auteur Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth's 2003 experimental docu feature The Five Obstructions. Koch Lorber said the film will continue to run on the festival circuit -- it has screened at Toronto, Sundance and Venice -- and will open nationally in the second quarter. Koch Lorber will then release the film on DVD in the fall. The collaboration between the two filmmakers has its roots in 1967, when Leth made a 12-minute short called The Perfect Human, which von Trier saw more than 20 times. Four years ago, von Trier challenged Leth to create five different remakes of Perfect Human with a different conceptual "obstruction" impeding each version. Five Obstructions follows a filmmaker not only revisiting but also re-creating one of his first films. The project was acquired from Trust Films of Denmark, with Rikke Ennis negotiating on the part of Trust and Richard Lorber on behalf of Koch Lorber.
COLOGNE, Germany -- Red-hot political issues, the problems of cinematic adaptation and the origins of mankind are among the themes of the films nominated for best European documentary, to be presented during the upcoming European Film Awards. This year's nominees include Rithy Panh's S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, which looks inside Pol Pot's genocide prisons; The Five Obstructions from Danish directors Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier, in which Leth adapts his 1967 film The Perfect Human under strict directorial guidelines set out by von Trier; and Jacques Malaterre's A Species' Odyssey, which follows the evolution of man from the first primate to the 21st century.
- 11/4/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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