Lars Von Trier Ranked
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Lars Von Trier is a controversial Danish filmmaker who has made some perfect movies, and some extremely imperfect films.
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Lars Von Trier's career has been full of lowlights, but the highlights make you pay attention to his every move. From his comments at Cannes that got him banned, to him winning the Palme D'or and screaming "I am the greatest filmmaker alive", he will always find a way to make headlines.
His filmography includes Antichrist, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac, Dancer in the Dark, The House that Jack Built, and a few other gems. In this video analysis, I will be ranking EVERY single one. Yes I watched every movie from Lars Von Trier.
The entertainment Lars Von Trier has brought to the cinemas, for better or for worse has always been a unique addition to the movie industry. My first time watching about half of these films, and the hate I can have for this man at times is just wild. I try to do some analysis and some explaining to some of these films, but other times I am just repulsed.
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11- 2:35
10- 7:40
9- 10:32
8- 11:08
7- 12:06
6- 14:12
5- 15:24
4- 17:49
3- 20:23
2- 22:31
1- 25:31
Movies Listed:
Nymphomaniac, The House That Jack Built, The Idiot, Dancer in the Dark, The Five Obstructions, Dogville, Antichrist, Europa, Melancholia, Manderlay, and Breaking the Waves.
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LVT has just been diagnosed with Parkinsons….
I just want to make it clear that he isn’t remotely a perfect person but in terms of art, his filmography should be celebrated.
@TiltedAmphetamine yeah, very sad. He always pushed the boundary and ill always celebrate that
The House That Jack Built is criminally underrated, we will not accept the slander
I am SORRY. I wanted to like it as an edgy 19 year old. Couldnt like it then, couldnt like it now.
@@NeekoWatchesMovies no hard feelings lol. It just seems like you tried to go into the movie thinking it’s edgy for edginess’ sake, and then complained that it was too edgy. I highly recommend rewatching the movie looking for its symbolism and deeper meaning, and letting yourself appreciate the cinematography. It’s not for everyone, but it’s way more than just (to use a term I don’t like) torture porn, like a lot of people say.
Other than that, good video!
Absolutely
It's so funny a pure work of silly art
I would put his Mini-Series The Kingdom above all his films. When he made it his main motive was to make something mainstream and entertaining, but him being him he gave it a Twin Peaks twist.
And i'm anxiously waiting for the release of the 3rd season........Dont' let me down, Lars - but i have faith in you - pulling the wool once again over my eyes. Love, love The Kingdom
It's a masterpiece!
Antichrist is a magnum opus of brilliant artistic genius. A feast for the senses, stunning performances, provocative and boundary erasing storytelling, highly original and unique context, it is a film that is utterly fearless. And often criminally misunderstood. It’s so very near and dear to my 🖤, that I HATE when people blindly hate and bash it. It’s a masterpiece. And my favorite film from Von Trier. While his enjoyably quirky, darkly comic, character driven supernatural Danish tv ensemble miniseries/show The Kingdom (set in a hospital of the same name, where things are starting to get very, very strange), and the celluloid is drenched in sepia time for that “you are so fckd” atmosphere (😂), is in my top three favorite shows of all time. Number one? Twin Peaks. Which if you’ve seen both, you get how the person who loved one would love the other completely.
All that written, I’ll close with: when watching LVT, always be sure to take the ✝️with the 😈…if you know you know 🤷🏼♀️😂
1000% cosign
Great video. My ranking would be very different but interesting how other people see his films. I am not sure LVT has set themes for each film, I think he explores contradictory themes without having conclusions while messing with the audience, often in a winking at the audience kind of way. I actually love Nymphomaniac and have seen the Director's Cut twice!
NYMPHOMANIAC TRUTHER
I'm a fan of LVT. Mostly I like his ability to make something seem both out of this world and as, occasionally, as vivid as a documentary.
More love needs to be given for his debut The Element of Crime. It's such a unique experience both audio-visually, and narratively, and it already shows Lars boldly experimenting with cinema form - nausiating orange lighting throughout the film, unrealistically deteriorated and flooded sets, etc.. I haven't seen anything like it, not even close.
Its about time i give it a rewatch
The kingdom is so fucking strange. I really love it but I really don’t know what to make of it, it’s like if twin peaks had a danish mental breakdown
Damn everyone tellin me i missed it. I definitely need to find the time
@@NeekoWatchesMovies all three seasons are up on Mubi rn, I SUPER recomend putting a day aside to blow through it it’s not terribly long
Thanks to this video I actually decided to write my first college essay about Antichrist.
HELL YEAH
Fun fact if I ever pissed Bjork off, she wouldn't need to insult me to hurt me she would only have to sing The Next to Last Song and I'd be emotionally destroyed for days
Id be destroyed forever
Could not disagree more strongly about Nymphomaniac which is a masterpiece. I particularly love the framing device which you trashed. It is hugely clever and entertaining and each time I watch it I see more connections between scenes and associated meanings with the analogies. The opening scene, which you also trashed, pulled me in immediately on first watching and when the circumstances are revealed at the end of how she got there it was a very satisfying resolution. The film confronts addiction and depression in about the most entertaining fashion imaginable and had me on first viewing hanging on the edge waiting for what would happen next and in all subsequent viewings seeing and understanding things I missed before. All that and it made me appreciate the Frank Cello Sonata in a way I hadn't before. I'll never hear it the same way again. This film is a true masterpiece of the first rank and may be Lars von Trier's magnum opus.
Im glad you enjoyed it. Its something upon a few rewatches i still have a lot of distain for
When you get irritated and frustrated at a Lars von Trier movie - you've been successfully manipulated.
Try watching them as comedies, they are really hilarious. Comedies can be just as deep as tragedies.
Art doesn’t owe us anything, and he doesn’t owe anything to us. He makes movies outside the box and makes something that pulls a piece of us every time. With that being said, I think he’s a misogynist, Nazi sympathizer with a plethora of mommy issues. Bjork put it best when she said “Lars needs women to put soul into his films, and he envy’s and hates them for it”. He depends on nativity of non Europeans and most apologists to make any headway with his films and it shows with every response in regards to his shit behavior. Quite frankly his last good film was breaking the waves, ever since then his work has insisted upon itself. THTJB and nymphomaniac (and I’ll say most of his work) is a reflection of how he sees himself, how society sees him, and what he believes. And if every lead he wrote is an interpretation of himself, then he sees HIMSELF as the victim all the time.
Go off king
So what does the scene where there's a woman giving birth (shown in thtjb movie) come from??
I think its from his series The kingdom or Riget it has 3 seasons but not many eps. Its still in my watchlist but i heard its great
I’m sorry but I absolutely loved nymphomaniac …
Yeah def the one ive tried the most. I wish i could get into it
1 The house that Jack built
2 Dogville
3 Nymph()maniac 2
We love some Dogville
Antichrist is a masterpiece of a movie!
Fuck yeah it is. Love it every damn time even more!
I've just watched "Riget" show 1st season 1994. That is a positive and fun Von Trier. Don't turn off the 1st episode until the end when he magicly pops out and tell us about this show.
I'm so looking forward to watch the 1998th season and the new one I believe 2022
I never watched but heard a lot about it from the comments. Will check out!
Dancer in the Dark gutted me like no other film has. And I love it for that. Björk was incredible, it felt like watching true behavior, not acting. I saw Melancholia when I had cable, so I walked in on it at different points and watched it several times. Loving it more every time I saw it. The series the Kingdom was great. Saw it at a local art house.
I need to see the kingdom. Yall all hyping it up
Just watched melancholia..... now im on a deep dive of his work. Never seen anything of his work b4 and went in blind wow... Trying to make some sense of it all, just ended up crying like claire 😔 but beautiful cinematography.
I love the high fps slow-mo shots so much in that film
thats exactly what i want really. Making my 16 year old self happy is as much art as anything else and i want more of it.
Also art doesnt NEED to be commentary on jack shit.
No but it helps
LVT movies are funny. Every time I watch his movies I end up not liking it but then the movies live rent free in my head for a few months and end up as one of my favorites
He does live rent free in my head too.
I just dropped a Cronenberg vid if you enjoyed!
1. Dogville
2. Melancholia
3. Breaking the waves
4. Idiots
5. House that Jack built
6. Europa
7. Antichrist
8. The boss of it all
9.. Dancer in the dark
10. Manderlay
11. Nymphomaniac
1-3 undeniable classics
4-7 all great and interchangable
8-10 good but too slow for me
11. piece of shit
Love dogville
Dancer in the dark is easily his best
Cant be bested
Riget 1 & 2 will forever be his greatest work, and it still stands as Denmarks best series, wish he just stuck to Denmark though..
You earned a sub. Love the attitude and the intellect.
Thanks HOMIE. I promise my audio is much better now
Bruh i just watched Nymphomanic vol 1 and I loved that thing lol. I am very amused by meandering, i guess
Yeah ik a lot of people who love it
@@NeekoWatchesMovies trier lists have a much larger variance than any other director I know of. Ive seen lists that were basically the opposite of this, and some weird combinations in between
I actually kind of liked part 1. Part 2 is garbage though. And that ending, ugh. I'll just pretend that never happened.
So you're a fan of Eastern Orthodox Nymphomaniac
One often reads about so many good filmmakers who can't get funding for their films, but LVT keeps putting out films that seem designed to alienate 99.9% of any potential audience. Who is paying to have these films made? Are they making money?
Thanks for the ranking. I've seen only a few of these, but was too confused to have any opinion. Maybe I need to dig deeper, and start with the "easy" ones, like Europa & maybe Dogville.
Ill always love the freaks that push the envelope, for better and for worse
I think one has to watch the house that jack build as a autobiographical metaphor for his career.
Its not a lenses i disagree with
More like lars von tryhard.
This man really needs more subs
I still think The Kingdom is a fantastic series. The sequel Kingdom II doesn't work as well, IMO, but it is definitely something I will watch again.
Stephen King's Americanization Kingdom Hospital served no purpose whatsoever.
I am mad i never covered it because man, every comment is like “THE KINGDOM FUCKS”.
Love his shit
Your first clip you showed that you said you "hate so much, because no one in.the world talks like that". People actually do talk exactly about what she was explaining, just read 1984 from beginning to end, and you'll see that the destruction of language is a cancellation of the person. For how can one express themselves, if they lack the words to do so? I have heard numerous people discussing this exact thing - it's much easier to control somebody who doesn't know they're a slave, and wouldn't even have the language to express it if they realized they were.
Sorry been awhile since i made this. Which movie?
@@NeekoWatchesMovies Must've been Nymph()maniac, Part One.
Thanks for doing this but no, even if some of your points with nynphomaniac are right, for me the ending was perfect. It represented the hypocritical nature of people, and how anyone would take advantage of someone else given the chance.
Yeah ive seen it too many times. I just cant get into it like others
Great ranking. I also think The Kingdom is really fucking good.
Lots of yall have been tellin me about The Kingdom. I gotta check it out i never watched. Just came out with a Yorgos Lanthimos ranking as well btw
I love the element of crime!
Nice video
Thanks!
Great ranking bro
Thanks man, probably doing Ti West next
You actually think "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was "Great"?.......wow.
Have you seen the original? You can't if you think the American version is "Great". It REALLY sucks, compared to the original.
When all that is said, you absolutely need to watch "Kingdom".
Whats wrong with the girl with the dragon tattoo lmao
@@NeekoWatchesMovies It's a worse remake of a better movie, thanks to the acting mostly.
maybe you missed the point in Nymphomaniac that sex is a totally absurd phenomenon tatached to the human condition by some typical prankster cruel god, the nymphomaniac just experiences the absurdity and accepts it fully. The rationalist/thinker has a neat metaphor/explanation for everything and the more he comes up with metaphors and equations - the end result is he becomes the absurd one and she becomes the sane one. She is the natural entity and he literally ends up being the non entity who's never lived. It's more a film (and comedy) about being than anything else. And i like the tv episode structure, pick up one thing about sex/life - explore, thrwo away on to the next thing.
I appreciate your view because i am not looking to dislike any of his films. I love the dude.
I have those type of conversations regularly. If you don't have the capability for deep thinking and meaningful conversation, you are another shallow dude looking for validation by throwing shade to films you would never be able to concoct.
Huh
1. The Kingdom
Never watched actually
nice one lad
Thanks!
LVT ranges from deeply disturbing genius to total trash, to nearly unwatchable pornography. I have to watch IT ALL to determine the difference.
Well put
Whats your favorite LVT?
Breaking the waves
@@palanirajan2261 Seeing a lot of Breaking the Waves love. Feels like his first truly boundary taboo breaking movie with a purpose
honestly its the house that jack built
@@PH-om6su to me it had a lot of potential with the structure but fails to me
Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut! Masterpiece
Come
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Boy! Is the narrator of this upload so...Contradictory.
Is he just feeding...ENVY?
I know 😂 the narrator comes off more pretentious than the self references in the movies. I was mad until I saw the channel has less then 1k subs.
@@ShleemenLive Mentally he still comes off as an "edgy 16 year old" that has figured everything out.
top 5 look good, ty
YESSIR
Why do you get mad at ANY Lars film technique? Isn't the whole point of his movies that you DON't need to do things a certain way? You don't like it, who cares, it works, you got the picture. No sets? so what ?and on and on. Is it a beautiful shot or an ugly one? What does that even mean ?
I have no idea what youre trying to say lmao. I love dogma filmmaking
@@NeekoWatchesMovies Oh, lol, and you objected to a cut........don't go holier than thou. Dogma filmmaking was an elaborate prank that lasted all of 5-10 movies. Try to keep up.
No spfx, fake violence, extras, genre filmmaking, music, in Melancholia, Antichrist, et? . of course.....
And if the cut or the edit works, it doesn't really matter if it's beautiful or stylish or whatever unless that is the intention of the movie. Nymphomaniac
- very aptly - is everything and the kitchen sink and then some more.
@@palmereldritch7777 oh so you got 5 mins into the vid. Dude i spent 95% of the video absolutely praising him lmao
@@NeekoWatchesMovies I'm not allowed to saying anything on your idea of what an edit should be or not ? And yeah, what i heard about Nymphomaniac seemed by and large to miss the point.
@@NeekoWatchesMovies Dude, you need to take a math course on percentages with Herr Seligman. And after that you need to watch The Kingdom/Riget
how old are you exactly?
25
your Fincher obsession tipped me off. god speed
@@edwardfetner2513 haha wym
@@NeekoWatchesMovies So an "edgy 25 year old that thinks he has figured everything out"
there's always been something about nymphomaniac that i don't like. i'd thought iy's the length or the 'misogyny' or something. it's not the writing style neither, i think that makes a good effect, it makes it seem otherworldy while all this bestial stuff is going on. the fish and trees stuff reminds me of moby dick with all its apparently pointless diversions. my least favourite film of his is the boss of it all. i suspect he made that only to test out a new filming style. the house that jack built is one of my favourites of his and the part with uma thurman is one of my favourite scenes of it, it's so messy, he's inexperienced then, brilliantly funny
I will say i have a lot of fun watching the house that jack built. Nymphomaniac just gets me so mad watching it haha
So Alien 3 is bad
Next video
Yesssir
@@NeekoWatchesMovies The CGI does look bad and also they killed Newt. Those are the two arguments I always hear about.
How about the unique atmosphere, the insane acting, the iconic and creative scenes, the music by Goldenthal, the feeling of absolute despair and the overall themes of nihilism and rape that are at the core of the franchise and shine more in this one than any other ?
Not even mentioning some of the shots that are just sublime in their lighting and composition
I'm just sad whenever people label it as bad. It was a production hell for sure but it doesn't mean that it's just bad and bye bye
What do you think sir ? Maybe give it another chance ?
Boring, like this channel.
Thanks!
Nympho sucked
Cant agree more
I don't exactly love Lars either but I think there's far more comedy to the edginess than maybe is picked up on by most. Too he's just this indulgent guy expressing tons of stupid thoughts and putting it in his films to be visionary, I doubt he finds them that deep in the first place. The House That Jack Built is literally a meta film about himself and his own career, of course that one is indulgent and filled with dumb shit.
I do think hes a funny chap
@@NeekoWatchesMovies he can be, that cannes nazi clip is hilarious