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January 18, 2006
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IN RETROSPECT

WELL-MEANING PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS: THE FILMS OF LARS VON TRIER

January 20 through 26, IFC Center

In a career that began with an 8mm camera, Lars von Trier has personified many movie-culture paradigms: formal nose-thumber, malcontented manifesto writer, pro-am Dogmatist, petulant artiste, ironic melodramatist, the mischievous master goblin among goblins haunting international cinema's festival banquets, and of course, the greatest Danish filmmaker to ever garner the near universal loathing of Denmark. Prepping for the release of Manderlay-his second in a trilogy of theatrical American autopsies-the IFC retro extends from von Trier's sober-tragic school thesis Liberation ...

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