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!

Clint Eastwood told Spike Lee to “shut his face” recently after Lee made a comment about the lack of black actors in Eastwood’s films. Some of Eastwood’s films include ‘Letters From Iwo Jima’ and ‘Flags Of Our Fathers’ and Lee is noted for directing ‘Malcolm X’, among many others. Lee complained that Eastwood did not include a single black actor in either of his 2006 films listed above.

Eastwood responded by explaining that the African-American troops who were at battle were not part of raising the flag in the famous picture. He said it would just not be accurate if he had included black actors in these films and people would think he lost his mind as a director.

Eastwood then concluded his statements at the Cannes International Film Festival by saying: “A guy like him [Lee] should shut his face.” Eastwood was promoting his new war film at Cannes titled ‘Miracle At St Anna’ about the all-black 92nd Buffalo Division which fought in World War II. Ironic. They’re both still badass in my book.