Last Tuesday, I had a chance to see "Where the Wild Things Are." Visually the film is stunning; it integrates handheld camera shots in the appropriate moments

Happy Birthday To "Spider-Man 3" actress Kirsten Dunst (1982), Jamaican musician Barrington Levy (1964), Danish film director Lars von Trier (1956), film and TV actor Perry King (1948), "Running With Scissors"

Bjork's Palme d'Or winning movie Dancer In The Dark is to be turned into a new opera. The acclaimed 2000 film, which was a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival, is to receive an opera adaptation in filmmaker Lars von Trier's native Denmark, according to Daily Variety.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - The Danish director Lars Von Trier said a period of depression has left him unable to work and he has doubts about when he will return to filmmaking.

Happy Birthday To "Elizabethtown" actress Kirsten Dunst (1982), Jamaican musician Barrington Levy (1964), Danish film director Lars von Trier (1956), film and TV actor Perry King (1948), "Running With Scissors" actress Jill Clayburgh (1944), pop singer Bobby Vee (1943), "Rocky" actor Burt Young (1940), and country legends Willie Nelson (1933) and Johnny Horton (1925; d. 1960).

Legendary filmmakers including Roman Polanski, The Coen Brothers, David Cronenberg and Lars Von Trier have all signed up for a Cannes Film Festival project to reveal what it means to go to the movies.

Newlywed Nicole Kidman is set to star as Mrs. Coulter in "The Golden Compass," the film version of the first of Philip Pullman's bestselling "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Movie-maker Chris Weitz will direct the $150 million production at London's Shepperton Studios this autumn.

Since leaving The Sugarcubes almost 15 years ago, Björk has charted a musical course as unpredictable and challenging as it is inspiring and beautiful. Rhino Records follows the artistic adventures of the mercurial singer/songwriter/sonic sculptor with Surrounded. Presented in deluxe "brick" packaging, the seven-DualDisc collection contains 5.1 remastered versions of Björk's six studio albums expanded to include each album's videos.

Happy Birthday To "Elizabethtown" actress Kirsten Dunst (1982), Jamaican musician Barrington Levy (1964), Danish film director Lars von Trier (1956), film and TV actor Perry King (1948), "Running With Scissors" actress Jill Clayburgh (1944), pop singer Bobby Vee (1943), "Rocky" actor Burt Young (1940), and country legends Willie Nelson (1933) and Johnny Horton (1925; d. 1960).