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April 02, 2006
Dennis Cooper frisks Lars Trier
What pisses off novelist Dennis Cooper? While blogging about Kundera, Zappa, and Warhol, he's got a few verbs left over for Lars Trier: "I think some of his early films are kind of interesting. The Kingdom was okay. But it literally took all my strength not to rip the fucking movie screen down at the end of Dancer in the Dark. It took all my strength not to smash my TV into garbage watching Dogville. I like artists who shake things up and piss people off and create a lot of weird energy good or bad. But to me von Trier is a condescending, ham-fisted, moralistic, cheesy, sadistic, self-satisfied filmmaker who's infuriating not because he's challenging or confrontational but because he's a stupid, obvious, predictable, simpleminded bore."
Posted by pride at April 2, 2006 04:05 PM
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