born 29 November 1970

Boris Eder, birthplace unspecified, Austrian actor/cabaret singer
Bruno Garcia, Olinda, Brazil, actor
Francesco Scura, Rome, Italy, production manger
Ghislain Bergevin, Montreal, Canada, video editor
James Blackburn, Bedford, Indiana, actor
Jason Frederick, Sudbury, Ontario, composer
Larry Joe Campbell, Pontiac, Michigan, actor
Maria Paula, Brasília, Brazil, MTV Brazil VJ
Paola Turbay, Houston, Texas, actress
Patricio Corona, Hermosillo, Mexico, film editor
Peter Hjorth, Copenhagen, Denmark, visual effects supervisor
Robert Mantiopyes (died 16 January 2005), Calgary, Alberta, actor
Rotimi Rainwater, Banbury, England, documentarian
Rudolf Schröder, Berlin, East Germany, cameraman
Sébastien Gendron, Talence, France, assistant editor
Thomas Cheysson, Boulogne, France, documentary writer
Wojciech Szepel, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland, cinematographer


It must be said that while I respect his cussedness, while I love love love The Element of Crime, and while “The Kingdom” ranks up there with the very greatest things I have ever seen in the whole universe of moving pictures, I am done, more or less, with Lars von Trier. Today's Winner seems to have come on board as a key member of von Trier’s team at just about the moment I began to permanently loose interest (Dogville, to be exact).


I feel he has earned recognition for whatever it was he had to do in the last one vis-a-vis Willem Dafoe’s crotch. Whatever it was, I won’t be checking it out anytime soon. That has more to do with my inability to accept Charlotte Gainsbourg as a leading lady, even in a sick-and-twisted anti-context, than with an aversion to on-screen genital mutilation. I guess if it came on cable I might try to see how much of it I could stomach. But we’ll just have to wait and see whether that day ever comes.