Lars Von Trier, acclaimed filmmaker (and director responsible for making Bjork cry) tends to make films that are so incredible that you only want to sit through them once. Sorry film buffs, his work is amazing, but it’s so gad-nammed depressing. I own a copy of his 2003 film Dogville, starring Nicole Kidman, and I’ve suceessfulyl watched it once. I’ve started it 10 times, but I keep on digging my fingernails into my palms and shouting, so I usually end up watching something a little easier on the senses, like A Clockwork Orange or Apocalypse Now.

We interviewed Von Trier in Synthesis Digital Issue #5, which is available for free download HERE.

In the meantime, check out Dogville’s credits, with music by David Bowie set to some uplifting pictures of early 1900s America. USA! USA!

This is the best low-budget music video ever and has sparked new inspiration for the Synthesis low-budget film series that, for now, we’re calling Manchild Drink Beer… kind of like Aqua Teen Hunger Force. WTF is up with that? No matter, things are about to get a whole lot more nekkid around here. I dunno if our Videomatt can handle editing something like this…

Yup, that’s Dizzee Rascal you hear, along with David Byrne. Brighton Port Authority is the British band better known as BPA. And I heard Fatboy Slim directed this. Now you know.

Two time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, was named the professor of Contemporary Theater at Oxford’s St. Cathrine College. Um..did anyone see American Beauty? This is like sending an alcoholic in to a bar! I mean, he is a talented actor, no doubt about that, but geesh. Spacey is said to be delighted for his one-year stint, which will include lectures, workshops, seminars, and some hands on work with the student. I bet hands on. So do I have to roll around in a bed of rose petals for an A or what?

So it is reported that Edward Norton is refusing to do much, if any, publicity for the new Hulk movie. I guess he figures he will leave it up to all the bloggers out there, writing posts about how he refuses to do publicity, to do his publicity for him. Well Ed, it ain’t gonna work! Ok, you win. Please don’t curb me or make soap out of my fat! I just want to know, is this film not worthy of the promotional tour? If I create a masterpiece, I would want to promote the HELL out of it. I would want you to see it, your mom to see it, shiet, even take the family dog. I don’t care, but Ed feels differently. Or maybe he is SUCH a great actor that he is stuck in the roles he has created, trapped between each character; controlling like the character, Derek, from American History X, fighting against the MAN, like Tyler Durken from The Fight Club. It is the man that created this monster, that is battling against the man. After a fall out with Marvel Comics and Universal, he announced that he wouldn’t be doing much publicity for the movie, and as for the next two sequels, Norton might not be returning as The Hulk. Perez couldn’t have said it better himelf… “What a DIVA!

This music video is radical. I’ve never heard of Clark but I likey! Plus our blog need moar trippy shit. Thanks, Espy.

Man, when I was a kid I wanted an Ewok almost as much as wanted a new Victoria’s Secret catalog to come in the mail. I always figured, though, that the closest I’d ever come was some heavy COSplay. Little did I know, that EWOKS ARE REAL. Check it: