HDNet Movies Sneak Preview: "Melancholia"

DVR set to record!

Thanks, worth a look. For anyone who hasn't seen it, "Last Night" is a great end of the world movie (written and directed by the egg smuggler from Exotica.)

I guess I fall somewhere in between love and hate. For me the first segment was like watching paint dry. The second segment was more interesting, if not exactly riveting. I found it a unique concept with flawed execution.

Is this the first film where Kirsten does a full nude scene? A couple of them actually.

Yep

darn!!! i really need to check this website more often I'm a day late! I use to visit this site when i had directv ,but now that i have verizon i hardly ever visit anymore,thats what i get for switching i guess. you guys on this forum are always on top of the latest info!. I never even saw this mentioned anywhere on the fios websites,other than to see that it was on VOD which i dont have because i use tivo.

Lars Von Trier's 'Melancholia' Wins Best Film at European Film Awards


BERLIN -- Lars von Trier's apocalyptic drama Melancholia blew them away at the 24th European Film Awards, Europe's version of the Oscars, taking home three trophies, including best film.

"I don't have a message from Lars for you because he has stopped making public statements. I can't imagine why," said one of Melancholia's producers as she accepted the honor on von Trier's behalf, making reference to the director's infamous pro-Hitler quips in Cannes this year.

Melancholia's cameraman Manuel Alberto Claro got the best cinematography nod for his hypnotic lensing of earth's final days and production designer Jette Lehmann won the EFA for her opulent sets.

Melancholia was the odds-on favorite to take the top prize at this year's EFA's. The host of the 24th European Film Awards, German comedienne Anke Engelke, acknowledged the film's frontrunner status when she started the show, making her entrance on stage in a wedding dress walking in slow-mo, aping Dunst's character in the von Trier drama.

But Von Trier was beat out in the best director race by fellow Dane Susanne Bier for her Foreign Language Oscar winner In a Better World. And the European Film Academy preferred Tilda Swinton's gripping performance as the mother of a murderer in We Need to Talk About Kevin to Kirsten Dunst's depressed bride in Melancholia, giving Swinton the best actress nod. Colin Firth added an EFA best actor trophy to his Oscar with what will likely be his last honor for The King's Speech. Neither Firth nor Swinton made it to the EFA ceremony, which was somewhat low-wattage in terms of star power.

The King's Speech's award haul also included the best editing honor for Tariq Anwar and the People's Choice Award voted on by European cinema goers.
Oscar favorite The Artist won one EFA for best composer nod for Ludovic Bource's classic score. Bource singled out the film's canine star for "inspiring all the music" in Michel Hazanavicius' film.

Another strong Oscar contender, the 3D dance film Pina from Wim Wenders won best European documentary.

Belgium brothers Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne took the best screenplay honor for their script to The Kid with a Bike. Belgium's other big win of the night was for Oxygen, from first-timer Hans Van Nuffel, won the European Discovery prize for best debut feature.

In one of the biggest surprises of the evening, French acting legend Michel Piccoli, who was nominated in the best actor category for playing the Pope in Habemus Papam, was hauled on stage to recieve a lifetime achievement award from actor Bruno Ganz and director Volker Schlondorff.

But the biggest laughs of the evening came thanks to Stellan Skarsgard and his tribute to Mads Mikkelsen, winner of the award for achievement in European cinema. Skarsgard turned the speech about his old friend into a mini-roast.

"I don't admire you for your looks, because you're not good looking," Skarsgard riffed. "You have an 'interesting' face. I know you've been voted sexiest man in Denmark like 6 times but those are by people who don't know you. And we have to remember, Denmark is a very small place."
But Skarsgard ended on a sweet note. "Mads, everything you do has a clarity to it. There's nothing fuzzy about what you do. You're acting is clean, graceful and very poetic."

The biggest applause of the night was for veteran British director Stephen Frears, who received a lifetime achivement honor.

"Actually, I'm everything you don't," Frears said to the audience of European film professionals. "I'm not an auteur and I make cheerful films because I can't stand the misery anymore. I'm just a bloke who makes films and hopes the audience likes them. And I'll try to do better next time."


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...ncholia-269330

Melancholia is one of the year's best....no question about it.
Very haunting and brutally honest.

Here is to hoping a BP nomination will now be forthcoming.

Agree

And it was very cool to watch the premiere in my living room.

I didn't even know it was a brand new feature presentation. I saw it on my guide (hey, what's this? never saw this thing) and set it up for recording. A couple of nights later I watched it and was really surprised-- great moviecast, cinematography, over all feel.

The musical score is awesomeperfectand is as much a part of this movie as the music was in 2001 A Space Odyssey.

A couple of nights ago I had my local classical music station on in the background and they were playing the piece. I started to feel uneasy. The hair was standing on my neck. My heart rate started going up. Then I realized where I heard this music. It was a surreal subliminal experience. I guess the movie stayed with me.

I would have loved to see this movie. Now I have to wait on Netflix. Anyone know of a heads-up on these previews? This was the second movie I missed recently.

They have a nice little site, not a lot of junk and easy to navigate. Find the Sneak Previews page there, along with the Retro and National Film Registry listings for some interesting future stuff (I'm curious about Chinatown since it's not on BD yet - or will it be by the time of this airing?)

2011 Awards: Melancholia"



The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday, January 7th, 2012, chose Melancholiaas Best Picture of the Year 2011.

Kristin Dunst was named best actress for her performance in Lars von Trier's film,

...and Brad Pitt was named best actor for his work in Moneyball and The Tree of Life. Albert Brooks (or his evil twin) won best supporting actor for his appearance in Drive, and Jessica Chastain was named best supporting actress for her work in three films: The Tree of Life, Take Shelter and The Help.

See below for all votes in Best Picture and other categories for outstanding film achievement.

The Society, which is made up of 58 of the country's most prominent movie critics, held its 46th annual awards voting meeting at Sardi's Restaurant in New York City, using a weighted ballot system. Scrolls will be sent to the winners.

BEST ACTOR
*1. Brad Pitt - 35 (Moneyball, The Tree of Life)
2. Gary Oldman - 22 (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
3. Jean Dujardin - 19 (The Artist)

BEST ACTRESS
*1. Kirsten Dunst - 39 (Melancholia)
2. Yun Jung-hee - 25 (Poetry)
3. Meryl Streep - 20 (The Iron Lady)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
*1. Albert Brooks - 38 (Drive)
2. Christopher Plummer - 24 (Beginners)
3. Patton Oswalt - 19 (Young Adult)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
*1. Jessica Chastain - 30 (The Tree of Life, Take Shelter, The Help)
2. Jeannie Berlin - 19 (Margaret)
3. Shailene Woodley - 17 (The Descendants)

BEST PICTURE
*1. Melancholia - 29 (Lars von Trier)
2. The Tree of Life - 28 (Terrence Malick)
3. A Separation - 20 (Asghar Farhadi)

BEST DIRECTOR
*1. Terrence Malick - 31 (The Tree of Life)
2. Martin Scorsese - 29 (Hugo)
3. Lars von Trier - 23 (Melancholia)

BEST NONFICTION
*1. Cave of Forgotten Dreams - 35 (Werner Herzog)
2. The Interrupters - 26 (Steve James)
3. Into the Abyss - 18 (Werner Herzog)

BEST SCREENPLAY
*1. A Separation - 39 (Asghar Farhadi)
2. Moneyball - 22 (Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin)
3. Midnight in Paris - 16 (Woody Allen)

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
*1. A Separation - 67 (Asghar Farhadi)
2. Mysteries of Lisbon - 28 (Raoul Ruiz)
3. Le Havre - 22 (Aki Kaurismäki)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
*1. The Tree of Life - 76 (Emanuel Lubezki)
2. Melancholia - 41 (Manuel Alberto Claro)
3. Hugo - 33 (Robert Richardson)

EXPERIMENTAL
Ken Jacobs, for Seeking the Monkey King.

FILM HERITAGE
1. BAMcinématek for its complete Vincente Minnelli retrospective with all titles shown on 16 mm. or 35 mm. film.
2. Lobster Films, Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema for the restoration of the color version of George Méliès's A Trip to the Moon.
3. New York's Museum of Modern Art for its extensive retrospective of Weimar Cinema.
4. Flicker Alley for their box set Landmarks of Early Soviet Film.
5. Criterion Collecton for its 2-disc DVD package The Complete Jean Vigo.

http://www.nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/

^Very close on BP....29 to 28.

This movie is like the depressed suicidal twin of Tree of Life, and I like it so much better! At least I know what the film is saying even if it's bleak and depressing, whereas watching ToL I want to yell enough, I can't stand seeing any more pretty white people running through pretty scenery and white light. I sure hope the afterlife isn't as boring and muddled and huh?-inducing as this.