Watch: 4-Minute Tribute To Lars von Trier's Masterful Film Work

Provocateur and persona non grata, Lars von Trier has always been a bit of a loose cannon around the media. Spouting endless amounts of quotable sound bites, he often makes headlines for what he says over what he films. Nonetheless, he is the master of the bleak and unflinching, an unrivaled talent behind the camera, serving up the stuff of nightmares, minus the monsters and ax wielding killers. Depression, madness, obsession, the loss of a child—von Trier's brand of horror dives into the cruelties that unnerve for how close to home they hit. Now, a new Cinemasters supercut has arrived, exploring hopelessness at the brink of oblivion.

It wasn’t long ago that von Trier sobered up and claimed he had no more movies to make. And while von Trier’s health and sobriety are of the utmost importance, the collective cinephile world held its breath hoping he could find it in himself to keep making films. Relief came in April when it was announced that von Trier—like so many auteurs...