If you're an award-nominated starlet, one of the things to worry about besides struggling with fame or having your purse stolen is when your notoriously provocative director decides to "joke" about his Nazi and Hitler sympathies during a Cannes Film Festival press conference. And if you're Kirsten Dunst, you react by squirming and wincing and just plain hoping he'll shut up. The Telegraph posted video of Lars Von Trier's now-infamous comments, with Dunst, who stars in his new film, next to him.
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Video: Watch Kirsten Dunst Cringe As Lars Von Trier Makes Nazi Comments/Jokes
Lars Von Trier Says He's A Nazi, Understands Hitler, Finds Israel A Pain In The Ass (Then Apologizes)
Provocative Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier usually lets his art house films push people's buttons, but today at the Cannes Film Festival, he decided to push them during a press conference. Von Trier was discussing his new film Melancholia before he said, "I really wanted to be a Jew, and then I found out that I was really a Nazi, because, you know, my family was German, which also gave me some pleasure."
Did Woody Allen Break His Slump With Midnight In Paris?
It's been a while for Woody Allen. Although our extremely scientific office poll revealed that many people moderately enjoyed Match Point, with Vicky Cristina Barcelona a close second, it's been well over a decade since we've seen a classic Allen hit, a la Deconstructing Harry or Bullets Over Broadway. Until now! Maybe, hopefully.
Hotel Chelsea Visits Cannes, "on the Rocks"
Last year, after Stanley Bard was ousted by the board as manager of the Hotel Chelsea and replaced with BD Hotels -- who just got ousted themselves, filmmaker Abel Ferrara moved back in to his old digs. The NY Post reports that the move was to help in the making his documentary, Chelsea on the Rocks
"I lived on the floor with the ghosts," Ferrara tells Page Six. "I didn't come in with a point to it, so I just lived there and began filming. The result was the hotel from soup to nuts. It's about the people that lived there, the ghosts, and the people that live there now. These artists need help and support."The documentary was just accepted in Cannes and includes fictionalized re-creations of events, interviews with former residents (Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Robert Crumb, Grace Jones and Milos Forman) as well as current residents.
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