Lars von Trier still has not visited the United States, yet he examines slavery and racism in “Manderlay,” Part 2 of his caustic fantasy trilogy about life in America. Premiering Monday at the Cannes ...

Bier’s “After the Wedding,” meanwhile, follows her Sundance award-winning film “Brothers,” which IFC currently has in release. The film features Danish star Mads Mikkelsen as idealistic Jacob, a ...

The USA: Land of Opportunities Collection was a proposed trilogy by Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. It was supposed to include Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005), and a final film Wasington which was ...

Lars von Trier has rounded out the cast for Manderlay, the second film in his USA trilogy after Dogville, with a contingent of US stars. Danny Glover and John C. Reilly join the new leading lady Bryce ...

"Manderlay," the second film in Lars von Trier's "America: Land of Opportunities" trilogy, has the same distinctive bare aesthetic as its 2003 predecessor, "Dogville." While the style was daring in ...

Bryce Dallas Howard knows her way around Hollywood: Her father, the actor and director Ron Howard, has helped doors. Howard acknowledged hyper-privileged world she grew up within in an interview with ...

“DOGVILLE” star Nicole Kidman has done an about-face on her promise to shoot the next two films in Lars von Trier’s American-set trilogy, “U, S and A.” The Danish director’s film company, Zentropa ...

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays ...

To get riled up by Lars von Trier’s “Manderlay” would be to validate him. It would suggest that he has a point, and that it’s lucid, and that he has argued it convincingly. With the second film in his ...

Controversy may sell but it sure didn't do much for the box-office tallies of Death Of A President or Lars Von Trier's Dogville and Manderlay. Von Trier set out to expose the poisonous hypocrisies of ...