#trier bitches

[blaacknoir]

"Pat Bateman" this, "Light Yagami" that.

I think we're ready to let another member into the "misogynistic killer club." Meet Mr. Jack Sophistication:

[vonlipvig]

objectively my funniest recent activity combination

[pinimi]

killing myself why am i actually enjoying Riget by Lars Von Trier I hate that little cunt why did he have to go and make such a funny horror parody or whatever with a super interesting concept and then make it the ugliest fucking thing I’ve ever seen christ i hate dogme95

[evilvillain123456789]

The news is in from the Cannes film festival-- the latest movie from acclaimed director Lars Von Trier has just won the Palme D'Ore for a film critics are describing as "a 90-minute play-by-play of an ant getting executed". They rave; "that little red fucker got his shit blown out from 100 meters by a 50 cal rifle. fucking awesome", "this guy backflipped over the ant, 🐜, pulled out a fat fuckin sawed off and blew that bitch to kingdom come. there was nothing left of her too just a red smear. they played it back like 50 times in slow motion too"

[kimkimberhelen]

My simple basic bitch take on Challengers: Okay, so this a film about a love triangle that's past its expiration date with some tennis. Neat.

My in-depth basic bitch take on Challengers:  Luca Guadagnino is a talented filmmaker, and while his movies are always impeccably made, I never find myself getting emotionally moved or invested in his films. There's an odd level of detachment to his work that is similar to many Lars von Trier films imo

My primary issue with Challengers is that while the characters are all interesting in their own right, the storyline itself isn't. Whether it be the bizarre love triangle, the vapid power couple that is Art and Tashi, or the tennis, it just wasn't interesting to me. I know this is me probably 'missing the point'.

One could imagine a film solely about Tashi Duncan not being saddled with these two dudes that would have made for an infinitely more interesting character study.

The same could be said for Patrick Zweig, who is a somewhat self-aware scumbag. Was he a likable character? Absolutely not, but was he the most interesting and intriguing character? I'd say so. As with Tashi, I wouldn't have minded seeing a movie that's just primarily about Patrick and his shenanigans - it would have made for a way more fun watch.

I don't regret watching this movie - I appreciate the art of it, but it's not something I ever plan on revisiting.

[alexjcrowley]

I see people on here talking about Riget: Exodus and I feel like I have to tell my story. Last year I went to Venice Film Festival and I bought tickets to see Riget: Exodus, of which I knew NOTHING about, except that it was a tv show and it was by Lars Von Trier.

You see, Lars Von Trier is the reason I bought the tickets. I know he is awful human being, but I also know his works are supposed to be good. And I say are supposed because, you guessed it, I have never seen anything by Lars Von Trier. I wanted to start with Nymphomaniac, but I could only find the censored version of the movies and I refused to watch it because it's either the whole thing or nothing for me. Riget: Exodus was going to be first thing I ever saw by Lars Von Trier ever.

So I go buy tickets for a swedish/danish show I didn't even know was a third season, I don't know what it is about, I don't know the genre, I don't know shit, but they're going to show the entire season in one afternoon and it's going to be 5 hours long. I drag my mother with me.

At first we think it's a horror, then the Brooklyn 99esque opening catches us off-guard.

I proceed to be very confused for the first 30-40 minutes, trying to understand if this is a subtle subversive masterpiece I am too dumb to understand, but at some point I get this is a comedy and then just embrace the madness I am witnessing.

You get the first intermission two hour and a half in, I am laughing my ass off, I am loving Alexander Skarsgård's character (fun fact, only now, by seeing other people post, I realised that's Alexander Skarsgård, but his lawyer killed me multiple times), I almost got an heart attack seeing Willem Dafoe, I am shipping the hell out of Helmer and Pontopidan (sue me), I am having the time of my life.

My mother begs me to release her from this torture, she hardly understands the jokes, she tries to say "Well, we've seen half of it, ain't it enough" I say "No, mother, leave if you must, I will stay here, witnessing the peak of comedic craft. And what's not to love about this? Don't you think this is a new height for comedy in the year of our Lord 2022?". She stays with me.

We watch 5 hours of it. Five. Hours. I am exhilarated seeing the milk cartoon scene, I can't stop laughing, I can't stop clapping, I see some other people in the audience are in my same situation.

I realise at the end of the show we have some of the actors with us in the theatre. I am officially going crazy, it's a fever dream.

(And, for pics or it didn't happen, we got Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Nicolas Bro. They're the only ones I got decent pictures of, but I also took some pictures WITH- yeah you could do that- other actors in the show, Bodil Jørgensen aka Karen was super nice, she hugged me and I sort of melted on the spot. They were also super kind with autographs.)

My mom doesn't understand still why I would want to spend five hours of my life like this, but it's fine.

I go home, I want to try and tell my friends about this show, but it feels like a fever dream and they're into internet rabbit holes and obscure stuff, but they've never heard of this. I try to explain how I was killed the scene with the lawyer and Helmer (Halfmer, how it showed on English subtitles) talking about the accusations of molesting the nurse whose name I do not remember (sorry), and at first the lawyer is like "Yeah fuck that bitch" and then it turns out it's also her lawyer so it bills Helmer but it's so complicated to explain how hilarious it was for me to witness that, how I lost my shit at the reveal. I feel I can't put it into words. It feels like I am talking mad.

My mother and I still quote to this day "Little brother" and "Big brother" (I think they were called like that in English, we're italians e we just randomly reference Fratellino e Fratellone and we laugh and the rest of our family looks at us like "everything alright?").

I was starting to believe me and my mum experienced a folie à deux and this show never actually existed and I would be forced to keep all my impressions about it to myself. But it does exist. And you people are talking about it.

So thanks, thank you people talking about this show so I don't feel I went crazy and blacked out for 5 hours during my time in Venice. Thank you.

Also, I gotta ask, people who are fans of this show, how do you came to know it? Is it very popular is Sweden or Denmark? Is it in America? Because I am in Italian gal who spends way more time than she should reading and learning about cinema and I had never heard anyone mention this show in my entire life. I mainly frequent american/anglophone internet spaces and I had never heard of this show (because it's not like I was expecting Italians to talk about it I'll be honest). After Venice all they talked about was Blonde, The Banshees of Inisherin (which I loved!) and The Whale (still have to see that).

I literally saw a post about this show today, for the first time, without looking for it. Fans of the show, this is my weird little story on how I watched Riget Exodus backwards (I actually still have to see the first two seasons, please forgive me). What's yours?

[jinghestation]

@ Eve here is your movie/book/play/short story rec list, it’s not done or cleaned up or even really coherent but just so you know… i AM working on it 😭🩷🤚🏻

Vickie’s Big List of Movie Recs:

Possession (1981) dir. Andrzej Żuławski

Raw (2016) Julia Ducournau

Antichrist dir. Lars von Trier

A Serbian Film

Salo (120 of Sodom)

Creep (2014)

Naked Lunch

Bastard Out of Carolina

Incantation

Final Prayer

Annihilation

All Quiet on the Western Front

Johnny Got His Gun

Saint Maud

The Strange Thing About the Johnsons dir. Ari Aster

Happiness

Dogtooth

Lake Mungo

Martyrs -> (original French release)

The Bay -> (GOOD LUCK finding it though)

Videodrome

Brain Damage

Mandy

The Void

The Ritual

The Witch

Blair Witch (2016) -> more enjoyable than the original Blair Witch Project (but you didn’t hear me say that)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Vickies’s Big List of Book Recs:

The Deep by Nick Cutter

The Troop by Nick Cutter

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

The Carnivorous Lamb

Querelle

Twins by Bari Wood

The Influence by

Blood Meridian

Story of the Eye

Blue of Noon

Vickie’s Big List of Short Story and Stage Play Recs:

Blasted by Sarah Kane -> MUST READ, baby’s first shock play 🥴🩷

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee

4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane

Crave by Sarah Kane

Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare -> only for my girl Lavinia…….

Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

Vickie’s Big List of Manga Recs:

Meshinuma

Yarichin Bitch Club

[b2lg]

Lars Von trier is a bitch. Should I watch dogville

[cinemacentral666]

Medea (1988)

Movie #1,042 • Ranking Lars von Trier #14

[Ed. Note: This series began as a video project where I examined all the LVT early work I could find + select short films, as well as the #15 film on the countdown, 1987's Epidemic — check all these posts out right here.]

The big "Well, that just happened" moment in this is spoiled in the title card of Medea (and on the movie poster), Lars von Trier's 1988 TV adaptation of the Euripides play (as much as anything emanating from 431 BC can be "spoiled"): we see two figures hanging from a tree built out of the "D" in the text. She hangs her two children is what I'm trying to say. Medea is a bad bitch, the epitome of the "a woman, scorned" motif blasted to the nth degree. It doesn't get much darker than filicide, folks. At 76 minutes long and with its Danish television budget, it would certainly seem like minor LVT on the surface. But there are some truly wonderful moments and lovely shots. Factor in that it's impossible to find a high-quality version of this media, it's even more amazing that it's still so striking. I don't think this is going to top anyone's filmography rankings, but it's definitely worth your time.

Longtime collaborator Udo Kier joins Kirsten Olesen in the title role and this dark material is right in LVT's wheelhouse. These deep and tragic ideas — of men and women, mother and children — are the perfect fodder for his bleak and slanted perspective. His genius really lies in subtle moments, like focusing on the skinned knee of one of the hanging boys after we've seen Medea tenderly care for her son's booboo before, well, you know.

Nobody's gonna be clamoring that Lars von Trier is necessarily an enemy of the patriarchy, but with Medea he's at least offered some perspective on that front. As with the oft-misunderstood, there's rarely an easy answer.

SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I'll be counting down all of Lars Von Trier's movies right here at @cinemacentral666 every Thursday through September 2023

[prunelier]

i frequently re-watch the first part of the worst person in the world (usually stop after she dumps felix), i remember feeling so let down & irritated by this film the when it came out yet it’s funny that i keep coming back to that first part (still very much think the second is so lazy and conventional and cliché boring). 

i’m a joachim trier bitch through and through since i’m like 17, so i’ll always watch his films hoping they’ll hit me as hard as reprise & oslo did back when i was a young adult. but they never do, except for the whole party scene in the worst person in the world and the breakup scene. this whole thing of feeling so young yet so out of place & confused compared to everyone around you, never able to make up your mind and take important decisions, feeling like a supporting role in your own life. and god i love that party scene so much, when she’s sad & walks alone at sundown & just goes “fuck it” so it all kind of looks like a dream where everything is easy & nothing is real, no one knows you you don’t know anyone. the raw human attraction to someone, stronger than all morality or reason, the whole weird flirting game knowing nothing can happen but you both want it so much. UGH. it’s all so real, so delicate, it’s all shades of things i’ve felt or lived it kills me.

i just find it irritating that it gets lost in cliché bourgeois male cinema tropes afterwards.

[mastermicd]

sometimes, life just wasn't fair, or that was how it could come to feel. brooke knew that feeling for herself, but she'd be damned if she didn't try her hardest to stop her best friend from being consumed by it, being dragged under by feelings that could feel so overwhelming. she wasn't perfect by any means, but she was a trier, and that was all she could be.

"you better not be a raging bitch forever." she parroted back, eyes playfully rolling as her efforts to lift peyton's spirits continued, "but i can let you be it for a little. everyone's entitled to it now and then." perhaps that was how you managed your way through life –– feeling the feelings, but knowing when to try and step away from them. "i think that throwing some breakables at a wall might be just the thing to release some of those feelings. and if it's not then –– at least we'll have some fun, right?" it was about as much as she could ask for, given the circumstances. but it was always worth it, just for spending time together, or so the brunette thought. "and you're only driving because i'm assuming you'll have some new, cool, slightly grungy music for me to listen to?" given peyton's state of mind, she wasn't expecting the musical iteration of sunshine to come blasting out of the comet's speakers.

peyton tries to stay there with brooke, she does, but her advice goes in one ear and out the other, because it failed to resonate with the storm of grief she was weathering inside.

she wished it was just one thing she was constantly aching for.

the blonde does appreciate her friend's efforts, though, which is why she forces herself to muster up a smile and not blatantly lie to her, ❝ i don't think it's as simple as that this time, b. davis. but, you're right, i can't be a raging bitch forever or i'll manage to drive even you away, so ― how about i drive you to that rage room instead? you can tell me all about your fabulous summer on the way. it'll be fun. ❞

[pollythepsychic]

Einwegkamera featuring me

[mexisco]

These “what your favorite director says about you except I’m gonna be a dick about it” videos came for my whole life like 5 times.

[haneys]

this game is trying so hard to make me act up

[fractaldunes]

damn hedwig wtf. trier bitches are just different

MYSTERY VISUAL NOVELS RAAAGH

[hotpinkstaples]

i told myself i would stop watching lars von trier films, but here i am, watching matt dillon commit multiple murders while building a house