The New York Times asked Hollywood professionals to name the best movies of the 21st century so far, and some of the choices ...

Voted ‘Sweden’s Sexiest Man’ five times, Alexander Skarsgard became a breakout star on HBO’s True Blood and, with his complex role in Lars von Trier’s masterpiece Melancholia, is ready ...

The planet Melancholia is on a potential collision course with Earth, engaged in a celestial dance of death, spinning into each others orbits and causing strange occurrences on the planets ...

Jamie Graham is another film writer for whom watching Melancholia was incredibly raw; now Editor at Large of Total Film magazine, he recalls first seeing it at its Cannes premiere in May 2011 ...

The film is spearheaded by Kirsten Dunst in her finest performance, and follows two radically different sisters as they come to terms with the end of the world. A planet, the titular "Melancholia ...

Cannes 2011 Jury Preferred ‘Melancholia’ Over ‘Tree of Life,’ but Wouldn’t Award von Trier Dunst won Best Actress at Cannes, but the film was originally destined for a much larger prize.

1. “Melancholia” — Lars von Trier, 2011 Searching for answers, waiting for miracles–these seem to be the themes of many of the best films at the Cannes Film Festival.

Pia Johnson Leanna Walsman and Eryn Jean Norvill. Pia Johnson Melancholia is being staged at the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, until August 12.

The opening shot of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) is a close-up of Justine (played by Kirsten Dunst) her eyes shut, her wet, white-blonde hair wild, a feral halo around her face. And then ...