In the late eighties, long before Dogme 95 and the digital revolution, Lars von Trier’s “Medea,” a 76-minute tour de force produced for Danish television, proved just how evocative and liberating ...
At once a showman, a sadist, a provocateur, an egomaniac, and a visionary, Danish director Lars von Trier has a gift for commanding the world stage. Yet for all the radical gimmickry in his work–the ...
Once upon a time, in a decidedly pre-Dogmatic age, Lars von Trier was an electrifying image-smith, and so it is that the 1987 version of Medea he made for Danish TV, which has been floating around on ...