Nymphomaniac

My biggest part yet … a history of prosthetic genitalia in film

To get into her role as Dr Klemperer in Suspiria, Tilda Swinton wore a set of fake male genitalia. From Nymphomaniac to Boogie Nights, here’s cinema’s story of fake body parts

Steve Rose

05, Nov, 2018 @10:00 AM

Why TV could teach cinema a lesson about how to treat trans characters

Trans characters in Hollywood have too often been played by cisgender actors – The Danish Girl, About Ray, Dallas Buyers Club – but new indie movie Tangerine follows TV’s example and features two trans women in its leads

Nigel M Smith

02, Oct, 2015 @2:57 PM

Nymphomaniac: Lars von Trier’s smut odyssey gets a director’s cut

‘Extending the film’s already mammoth runtime to five-and-a-half hours, Von Trier has long identified this version as his true vision’

Charlie Lyne

16, May, 2015 @8:00 AM

The Theory of Everything; Nymphomaniac: the Director’s Cut; Beyond Clueless – review

Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen Hawking with wit and warmth, Lars von Trier adds to Charlotte Gainsbourg’s suffering and US teen movies get the documentary treatment

Gug Lodge

10, May, 2015 @6:00 AM

Lars von Trier: ‘I’ve started drinking again, so I can work’

After his Nazi jokes saw him ejected from Cannes in 2011, Lars von Trier took a vow of silence. In one of the first interviews he’s given since then, Lucy Cheung met him at the Zentropa studio in Denmark to talk about sex, alcoholism and his reaction to the Copenhagen shootings

Lucy Cheung

20, Apr, 2015 @4:33 PM

Lars von Trier: I was addicted to drugs and alcohol

Danish director said he is now sober and receiving treatment for dependency, but expresses concern over whether he will be able to make films in the future

Peter Bradshaw

28, Nov, 2014 @11:35 PM

Lars von Trier breaks 'vow of silence' to appear in virtual form at Venice

Controversial Danish director makes first public utterances – via laptop – since infamous ‘Hitler’ remarks at Cannes as new TV series, The House That Jack Built, is announced

Xan Brooks

01, Sep, 2014 @2:02 PM