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Hollywood Xposed: Week of Dec. 1st

Isabella Rossini of Naked News is stripping down and bringing us all the hottest news from screens big and small.

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Hollywood Xposed: Week of Dec. 1st

Mr. Skin Giveaway: Win Nymphomaniac Vols. I & II: Extended Director’s Cut on DVD!

Hitting Blu-ray and DVD this week is the Extended Director’s Cut of Nymphomaniac Volumes I & II and to celebrate, we’ve got three copies of the DVD to give away to three lucky Skin Fans! Hit the jump for more info…

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Nymphomaniac Will Make You a Skinphomaniac

Nymphomaniac is sexplicitly nude On Demand, Ivana Milicevic is bare again on Banshee , and Thandie Newton strips down for Rogue .

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Nymphomaniac Has a Release Date [VIDEO]

Lars von Trier ’s Nymphomaniac (2014) is extremely high on Mr. Skin’s list of most anticipated upcoming films. In fact, it is second only to Scarlett Johansson ’s soon to be nude debut in Under the Skin (2014). The erotic opus has scored not one, but two releases dates next year, the first portion opens in theaters March 21, while the second half will premiere April 18. Meanwhile, our pants have secured a release date as well… Let’s look at all the teaser trailers Nymphomaniac has presented so far: See the clips after the jump!

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Nymphomaniac "Appetizer" Leaves Us Hungry For More [VIDEO, PICS]

The latest teaser trailer for Lars von Trier’ s sure-to-be-nudie masterpiece Nymphomaniac (2013) has hit the interwebs and already been involved in a brief scuffle with YouTube over its explicit content. The trailer was removed from the streaming site soon after its release and then later reinstated with a content warning. It’s a doozy too, featuring the fuzzy full frontal of Stacy Martin as she gets her lap licked by an older guy, then screwed by Shia LaBeouf. All this on top of the movie promo posters featuring the characters showing off their “O” faces, and we’re getting a antsy in the pantsy that Nymphomaniac has yet to set a U.S. release date. Watch the clip after the jump!

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Alexander Skarsgård May Holla ‘Tarzan’

In the last couple years, Alexander Skarsgård has taken on roles ranging from controversial Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier’s Melancholia to Peter Berg’s Battleship , but now it looks like the 6′ 4″ heartthrob may be heading to the dense foliage of the tropics. The Swedish-born actor has risen to the top of the contender list to star in David Yates’ Tarzan for Warner Bros., Variety said . The film still is awaiting the official go-ahead from studio brass, but a late summer shoot is expected. Come summer, Skarsgård may don the character of John Clayton III, aka. Tarzan. The story follows the “re-assimilated” Clayton who is asked by H.M. Queen Victoria to team with mercenary George Washington Williams to save the Congo from a warlord who controls a rich diamond mine. Samuel L. Jackson is a possibility to play Williams who is a Civil War vet who wants to repair his name following his involvement in a massacre of Native Americans. Yates officially committed to the project last week, which, given all the colonial subtext, risks running afoul a sensitivity issue or two. Yates directed the last four installments of the Harry Potter franchise. Toronto premieres Disconnect and What Maisie Knew will be Skarsgård’s next starrers. [ Source: Variety ]

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Lars Von Trier Wants You! Invites World To Submit Films Inspired By Albert Speer, Sammy Davis Jr.

Leave it to Lars von Trier to find a connection between Nazi architect Albert Speer and Rat Pack singer Sammy Davis Jr.  The controversy-courting Danish filmmaker has invited the public to reintrepret one or more of six great works of art for a community film project that will be unveiled at the Copenhagen Art Festival. The project is being called Gesamt , which translates to “coming together” or “a joint piece of work,” said director Jenle Hallund, who has the nerve-wracking challenge of creating a cohesive film from fragments of the submissions under some very tight time constraints.  The deadline for submissions is Sept. 6, and the finished film is slated to debuty Oct.12, 2012 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. Hallund, who was a script supervisor on Von Trier’s Melancholia as well as the co-director Limboland  (2010)  told us Gesamt has the potential to “be a testimony to the health and the soul of civilization. It should show how ordinary people appreciate and interpret big art,” she says. Make that big art that stirs the soul of Von Trier. Participants must base their submissions one or more of six different works of art, and Hallund said that the chosen few “are all pieces of art that [Von Trier] likes.” According to the announcement of the project — which was modestly titled “Lars Von Trier Challenges The People” — by the Danish Agency for Culture, prospective entrants must use as their muse(s):  James Joyce’s Ulysses , “which once was banned in the United States because it was seen as obscene and lewd”; August Strindberg’s play The Father , “which still stands as a striking example of a dysfunctional family”; Paul Gaugin’s painting Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? French composer César Franck’s improvisations; or the music of the late Sammy Davis Jr., “who stepped himself into the hearts of people through song.” Also included among is the Zeppelin Field grandstand in Nuremberg, Germany that Hitler’s main architect Albert Speer created. The choice is sure to generate debate given comments Von Trier made during a press conference at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, when he said: “I understand Hitler, but I think he did some wrong things, yes, absolutely. … He’s not what you would call a good guy, but I understand much about him, and I sympathize with him a little bit. But come on, I’m not for the Second World War, and I’m not against Jews.” When I asked Hallund if Von Trier, who likes to stir the pot, was referencing the Cannes controversy by including Speer, she replied: “I can’t speak on his behalf, but if you look at some of Speers’ art, it is phenomenal, and I would say that it is possible to appreciate his art independent of the ideology” to which it was attached during the reign of Hitler. “All art can be used toward elitism and propaganda,” Hallund continued, adding, “a lot of religious art has been used for that. Some people will say that the Bible and the Koran are works of art, but they have also been used toward mass murder and genocide and repression on the planet.” “We can’t just close our eyes and say we can never talk about Albert Speers or Nazism,” Hallund concluded. “We make ourselves more prone to repeat the past by ignoring it. Gesamt producer Nadia Claudi told me that six submissions have already been received. One arrived from Germany, she said, and the rest are from Denmark. All but one of the submissions are filmed, and Speers right now is leading the subject matter by a thin margin: Two submissions are based on his work at Zeppelin Field; one deals with Joyce, and another, with Gaugin. She said that one entry takes on all six subjects, while the content of another submission is a bit inconclusive. The deadline for entries is Sept. 6.  Everything you need to know about submitting your work can be found  at this link. “I just hope that  people will be very free in their interpretations of this and show us what they have in their hearts,” Hallund said.  “And I would love to hear from Americans.” You heard the lady. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

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Watch an Episode of Klown Written by Lars Von Trier

The epically awkward, debauched Danish sitcom Klovn , wich is soon coming to the United States as the epically awkward, debauched Danish feature-length comedy Klown , currently has restored an episode online written by the epically awkward , debauched Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. What could go wrong? So much , actually. Have a look and find out. Revived from the series’ second season by the movie’s US distributor Drafthouse Films, the episode (titled “It’s a Jungle Down There”) finds the notorious Frank and Casper “taking interest in a masturbation class and their persistent infiltration of these very private sessions.” It seems safe enough for work, I guess, unless everyone at your work speaks Danish, in which case rally them ’round and kick off early! What the hell, we’re technically passed the midweek point by now. It might as well be Friday. Klown debuts July 27 in limited theatrical release as well as on VOD and digitally.

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Great News, Ladies! Morgan Freeman Not Marrying His Step-Granddaughter

“Freeman’s rep tells us the actor remained silent for years because he didn’t want to ‘dignify these stories by commenting’ … but now he feels compelled to speak out after the reports were picked up by various ‘mainstream media’ outlets. In his statement, Freeman says, ‘The recent reports of any pending marriage or romantic relationship of me to anyone are defamatory fabrications from the tabloid media designed to sell papers. What is even more alarming is that these fabrications are now being picked up by the legitimate press as well.'” Sorry about that, Mr. Freeman. In other news: TGIF. [ TMZ ]

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Remembering Dogville, the Odd Film Out in New Nicole Kidman DVD Set

The film : “Dogville” (2003) Why it’s an Inessential Essential : It’s admittedly a little strange to think of this fairly well-known film as needing endorsement of any kind. However, Lionsgate recently released a new Nicole Kidman box set, packaging the first film in Lars von Trier’s acerbic but still incomplete “America Trilogy” in the same collection as more high-profile and easy-to-swallow Kidman roles like Cold Mountain , Rabbit Hole and The Others . The juxtaposition is striking, and as the clear odd film out in the four-disc set, Dogville emerges as perhaps Kidman’s most inessential essential. As von Trier guardedly remarks on the film’s audio commentary, the making of Dogville hinged on Kidman’s involvement. The film’s only began shooting when Kidman was able to fit the gig into her busy work schedule, frustrating Von Trier, who says that he understood and there was no real way around it. He had to have Kidman play Grace, the fugitive gangster’s daughter who finds refuge in the titular small town. Kidman’s performance essentially fuels von Trier’s rabid vision of America as a pseudo-Smalltown, USA. Dogville’s self-interested residents orbit her character as if she were the Sun and the consequences of her actions almost always eclipses everyone else’s. She is good-natured and that’s why von Trier stir the conniving Dogvilleians’ shit. It’s why von Trier’s camera (he’s credited as a camera operator in the end credits) always seems to cling to Kidman’s face. He loves that face (“She’s a very good listener,” he remarks to director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle during the audio commentary). Which in turn is why, according to the skittish but always provocative Danish filmmaker says that Kidman was put off by how physically close he would get to her during shooting. Kidman gives an indelibly nuanced performance here, making the film a barbed satire first and a showcase for Kidman a close second. How the DVD Makes the Case For the Film : Lionsgate repackaged their old DVD release of Dogville but that’s all right given how inadvertently revealing von Trier and Mantle’s audio commentary is. The two filmmakers go silent for a number of scenes as von Trier clearly doesn’t know what to say. This conversation seems to have been recorded in one take and sometime between the film screened at the Cannes Film Festival and its original 2004 American theatrical release. When it comes to Kidman, von Trier seems deliberately shy. But he does bring up certain things that hint at why Kidman didn’t reprise her role as Grace in Manderlay, like how Kidman didn’t like the idea of Grace dragging around a heavy weight around her attached to a collar with a bell. Von Trier says he doesn’t really mind as that was “the job, not to like it.” But while LvT generally sounds like he just wants to put Dogville behind him, his silence regarding Kidman seems like it was his way of trying to be diplomatic. He complements Kidman’s performance but also readily admits that working with such a big star frustrated him, too. When talking about working around Kidman’s schedule, he remarks, “She has to do what she has to do but.” Then he exhales dramatically and continues: “It kind of suffocates you in your creative process.” Other Interesting Trivia : Von Trier says a number of funny (ie: funny-peculiar, not funny ha ha) off-the-cuff things that reveal just how uncomfortable he is talking about Kidman and the film after-the-fact, like when he jokes about how much Stellan Skarsgaard, “loves to be naked, like me,” during Grace’s rape scene. In fact, the only remark he makes about Kidman or Grace during this scene is that her head is over the chalk line demarcating the borders of the house she’s being raped in. He also half-snorts, half-laughs at the absurdity of Kidman complaining about “[feeling] trapped” by having to wear Grace’s degrading collar. Von Trier’s point couldn’t be more clear: Dogville wouldn’t be Dogville if it were less venomous. But it also wouldn’t be Dogville without Kidman, too, and that’s something he sounds reluctant to admit. PREVIOUS INESSENTIAL ESSENTIALS The Last Temptation of Christ The Sitter Citizen Ruth The Broken Tower Simon Abrams is a NY-based freelance film critic whose work has been featured in outlets like The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Vulture and Esquire. Additionally, some people like his writing, which he collects at Extended Cut .

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