Screening some of the most highly anticipated films of the season, along with special programs and series focusing on directors and avant-garde work, the 49th New York Film Festival starts on ...

Well, in this case it is. In a beautiful and baffling mood piece from controversial Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, Kirsten Dunst plays Justine, a depressed young woman staring down complete oblivion ...

The first thing you see in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is a tight close-up of Kirsten Dunst’s face. Behind her, slow as molasses, birds are dropping from the sky. Brueghel’s “The Flight of Icarus” ...

The battle for Thursday night drama ratings continues! On December 16, both tvN’s “Melancholia” and JTBC’s new drama “Artificial City” saw their viewership ratings dip due to the overwhelming ...

Dunst won Best Actress at Cannes, but the film was originally destined for a much larger prize. According to the “Personal Shopper” and “Clouds of Sils Maria” director, only Jude Law and himself ...

They must have been rubbing their hands in Cannes this week as Lars von Trier lifted the veil on his latest film project, Melancholia. After a lacklustre 2010 festival, the possibility of the Danish ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

An arthouse take on the 50s B-movie When Worlds Collide, Melancholia is like a filmic embodiment of that irritating platitude, “Cheer up – it’s not the end of the world!” For Kirsten Dunst’s ...