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Antichrist Might Be God-Awful, But That Doesn't Make It Misogynistic

Melissa Lafsky | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Misogyny, Antichrist, Lars Von Trier, Cannes Film Festival, Movies, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Melissa Lafsky

I don't have to tell you that Antichrist sucks. But if this audience-chafing, Cannes-enraging glob of rubbish is so irredeemable, why the hell is every publication still in existence racing to write about it?

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Lars von Trier's Antichrist: A Conversation

Dan Persons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Earth, Justice, Repression, World, Murder, Horror, Emotion, Lars Von Trier, Sex, Drama, Suspense, Controversy, Death, Indie, Environment, Gore, Antichrist, Acting Legend, Fantasy, Off Beat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Art, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.

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Defiant Danish Director Lars von Trier Tackles Antichrist

Brad Balfour | Posted 10.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Antichrist, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lars Von Trier, Willem Dafoe, New York Film Festival, Films, New York City, Movies, Misogyny, Psycho, Carrie, Andrei Tarkofsky, The Shining, Horror, Rosemary's Baby, The Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche, Manderlay, Dogville, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Questions for Lars von Trier: "You had a a researcher on misogyny in the credits. In the writing or making of this film did you learn something about misogyny in yourself, in your work?"

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Obama is Not God: the Projection Principle

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Smears, Right Wing Media, Antichrist, Political Psychology, World Net Daily, Michele Bachmann, Right Wing, Right-Wing Media, Psychology, Obama Antichrist, Psychological Projection, Jon Voight, Barack Obama, Obama Smears, Politics News
Matt Osborne

There is a limitless supply of videos chronicling the August teabaggery, but this is the one I found most interesting: a woman declaring that "Obama i...

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What's Wrong With the New York Film Festival

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pedro Almodovar, Antichrist, Precious, Broken Embraces, Marshall Fine Commentary, Trash Humpers, New York Film Festival, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

The NYFF has become the "we know best" festival, full of films that no one -- except the selection committee and the people who actually made the movies --- will ever care about.

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Live from the Toronto Film Festival: The Wrap-Up

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Antichrist, Precious, Up in the Air, Lars Von Trier, Toronto Film Festival, Broken Embraces, Life During Wartime, A Serious Man, Todd Solondz, Marshall Fine Blog, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

I have nothing against transgressive cinema; but Antichrist has the feeling of pushing buttons for its own sake, like a child smearing its own feces on a wall. Why does Lars von Trier do it?

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Most Hated Director at Cannes: Lars Von Trier as Antichrist or Shaman?

Karin Badt | Posted 06.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Antichrist, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lars Von Trier, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Willem Dafoe, Cannes, Levi Strauss, Shamanism, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

The film is marked by anxiety, cruelty and power manipulation in which the climax is a clitorectomy executed with a pair of scissors.

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Lars Von Trier's Sex And Genital Mutilation Film Finds Distribution

AP | Posted 06.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Antichrist, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Lars Von Trier, Willem Dafoe, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Entertainment News

CANNES, France — Two past winners of the top Cannes Film Festival prize have picked up a U.S. distributor for their latest movies. IFC Films sa...

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Lars Von Trier's 'Antichrist' Features Sex, Guilt, Genital Mutilation

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 06.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Antichrist, Film, Cannes, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cannes Film Festival, Lars Von Trier, Willem Dafoe, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Entertainment News

CANNES, France — Don't ask Lars von Trier why he made "Antichrist," the grim and gory tale of a trip to the woods that goes badly wrong, and a f...

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South Carolina Mayor ''Just Curious'' If Obama Is The Antichrist

Think Progress | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Antichrist, Barack Obama, South Carolina, Politics News

Fort Hill, SC Mayor Danny Funderburk said he forwarded a chain email suggesting Barack Obama is the antichrist because he was "just curious" if it was...

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Obama Anti-Christ? McCain Ad Touches Off Religious Debate

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

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A number of progressive religious figures are angry over the McCain campaign's recent ad "The One," which they believe paints Barack Obama as a kind o...

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Lieberman Ally Claims "Jewish Banking Plot" Sermon Copyright Protected -- Senator To Speak at July Hagee Event

Bruce Wilson | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joe Lieberman John Hagee, Antichrist, John Hagee, Jewish, Christianity, Christian Right, Adolf Hitler, Cufi, Politics News
Bruce Wilson

John Hagee Ministries has claimed copyright protection for a sermon which closely resembled versions of the most notoriously vicious anti-Jewish conspiracy theory ever minted.

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Pastor Hagee: The Antichrist Is Gay, "Partially Jewish, As Was Adolph Hitler" (Paging Joe Lieberman!)

Max Blumenthal | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Hagee Nazis, Antichrist, John Hagee Antichrist, John Hagee, Hagee Israel, Hagee Endorsement, Joe Lieberman, John McCain Hagee, Lieberman Hagee, Politics News
Max Blumenthal

Now that Hagee's political allies have listened to the preacher's sermon identifying the Antichrist as a homosexual Jew, how can they still share a stage with him?

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