Daisuke, my friend! Thank you for taking the time to discuss this box set. A friend of mine asked me around my birthday what I thought of Lars Von Trier and I said that I had never seen any of his films so they surprised me with this set as a gift. I'm happy to share that I watched the first film included in this set "The Element of Crime" this morning and have been anxious to find time for your video discussions while I work through the whole set. Hopefully I can share some coherent thoughts with you once I have finished all the films. That first one was intriguing to say the least! I dig the design of this box set very much and I love how you share the history of some of these Von Trier films having previously been in the Criterion collection with individual spine numbers vs this sets own unique spine number. I'm looking forward to the other four discussions you have regarding this set, Daisuke. Cheers!
Love to see you're still doing well Daisuke! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on these films, Lars is one of my favourite directors, his films are so utterly unique, the voice of a true auteur. I loved Europa when I saw it, some very interesting and well directed sequences. The Element of Crime didnt work for me when I saw it, but, it was a standard stream with broken subs on amazon about 10 years ago, really looking forward to revisiting this. Curzon in the UK have just announced a new Von Trier box set which includes (almost) his entire filmography, many of the films, newly restored (other than Dancer in the Dark). I'm really, really looking forward to watching them all again, I utterly love his style and approach to cinema. I simply cannot wait!
I’ve never seen a Lars Von Trier film, so when I heard of this set being released I was intrigued and I’m glad to see you begin to talk about the films. I hope you’re doing well Daisuke, have a great day and take care!
If you're looking for a place to start with him, I would recommend Melancholia, which is the middle film in his thematic 'depression trilogy', it'll give you a good example of the kind of things he explores within his films, and his direction/editing style and themes. My first was Anti-Christ, which I love, but it's got some really tough scenes in it, which are quite hard to stomach for a general audience, I wouldn't call it a horror but it's brutal. Dancer in the Dark is perhaps my favourite, but it's all shot on SD cameras so visually isn't as strong. Lars also tends to approach every film as a new challenge - Europa: is a war thriller, Anti-Christ: a delve into deep depression, Dancer in the Dark: a musical, Dogville: a Brechtian tragedy, The House that Jack Built: a serial killer film. Breaking the Waves: a tale of religious ideology, sexual exploration and exploitation. I would probably recommend you save Jack till the end, as he does self reference his other films within the film in a very meta textual manner, and, you'll see that he's very playful (at least I think so) in the way he presents himself, he doesn't take himself seriously, even if his films are deadly serious. Enjoy!
Great to see you back discussing recent Criterion releases, daisuke. Your videos are the primary inspiration for my own channel. For those interested and have access, all three of these movies are streaming on the Criterion Channel currently with all the supplements. Take care.
We'll be going over each movie in detail as this series goes on, but it is curious that Criterion decided to just give only the spine # to the set itself. It isn't the first time they've done that (see the Bruce Lee and Godzilla box sets, especially the latter since the first movie had a spine #). This is a curious choice since Epidemic doesn't have a spine # at all which makes me wonder who chooses the spine #s at Criterion. Regardless, we are finally getting into this set!
Daisuke, my friend! Thank you for taking the time to discuss this box set. A friend of mine asked me around my birthday what I thought of Lars Von Trier and I said that I had never seen any of his films so they surprised me with this set as a gift. I'm happy to share that I watched the first film included in this set "The Element of Crime" this morning and have been anxious to find time for your video discussions while I work through the whole set. Hopefully I can share some coherent thoughts with you once I have finished all the films. That first one was intriguing to say the least! I dig the design of this box set very much and I love how you share the history of some of these Von Trier films having previously been in the Criterion collection with individual spine numbers vs this sets own unique spine number. I'm looking forward to the other four discussions you have regarding this set, Daisuke. Cheers!
Love to see you're still doing well Daisuke!
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on these films, Lars is one of my favourite directors, his films are so utterly unique, the voice of a true auteur.
I loved Europa when I saw it, some very interesting and well directed sequences.
The Element of Crime didnt work for me when I saw it, but, it was a standard stream with broken subs on amazon about 10 years ago, really looking forward to revisiting this.
Curzon in the UK have just announced a new Von Trier box set which includes (almost) his entire filmography, many of the films, newly restored (other than Dancer in the Dark). I'm really, really looking forward to watching them all again, I utterly love his style and approach to cinema. I simply cannot wait!
I’ve never seen a Lars Von Trier film, so when I heard of this set being released I was intrigued and I’m glad to see you begin to talk about the films. I hope you’re doing well Daisuke, have a great day and take care!
If you're looking for a place to start with him, I would recommend Melancholia, which is the middle film in his thematic 'depression trilogy', it'll give you a good example of the kind of things he explores within his films, and his direction/editing style and themes.
My first was Anti-Christ, which I love, but it's got some really tough scenes in it, which are quite hard to stomach for a general audience, I wouldn't call it a horror but it's brutal.
Dancer in the Dark is perhaps my favourite, but it's all shot on SD cameras so visually isn't as strong.
Lars also tends to approach every film as a new challenge - Europa: is a war thriller, Anti-Christ: a delve into deep depression, Dancer in the Dark: a musical, Dogville: a Brechtian tragedy, The House that Jack Built: a serial killer film. Breaking the Waves: a tale of religious ideology, sexual exploration and exploitation.
I would probably recommend you save Jack till the end, as he does self reference his other films within the film in a very meta textual manner, and, you'll see that he's very playful (at least I think so) in the way he presents himself, he doesn't take himself seriously, even if his films are deadly serious.
Enjoy!
Great to see you back discussing recent Criterion releases, daisuke. Your videos are the primary inspiration for my own channel. For those interested and have access, all three of these movies are streaming on the Criterion Channel currently with all the supplements. Take care.
That's one box set I've got my eye on. I really liked Europa. I haven't seen the other two but I was very lucky to see Europa. Many thanks Daisuke!
Excited to see your thoughts. I actually never realized that Element of Crime and Europa never released on Blu-Ray
We'll be going over each movie in detail as this series goes on, but it is curious that Criterion decided to just give only the spine # to the set itself. It isn't the first time they've done that (see the Bruce Lee and Godzilla box sets, especially the latter since the first movie had a spine #). This is a curious choice since Epidemic doesn't have a spine # at all which makes me wonder who chooses the spine #s at Criterion. Regardless, we are finally getting into this set!