Kingdom Comes Home

Using Alexander Skarsgård's photo here is a bit of a cheat since his role in the third season of Lars Von Trier's series The Kingdom is minute, but I'm never above a cheat! Especially not if it allows me to stare at Alexander Skarsgård. Anyway today is a happy day for us Kingdom-heads as the entire three-season series has been given fresh life thanks to the fine folks at MUBI, who've just dropped a blu-ray box-set of all three seasons and thirteen episodes -- you can buy it at this link. The set includes not just the show (a prize beyond words in itself) but behind-the-scenes interviews, commentaries, a documentary, Danish commercials, and a companion booklet. But the show itself is plenty; I mean where else are you going to see...

... somebody give birth to a full-grown Udo Kier, I ask you? Well besides at any local gay bar on a Saturday night. In all seriousness this series is a bizarre treat from start to finish, one of LVT's greatest accomplishments. And who knows when we'll get something from LVT next? His health ain't great. (And his sanity... well that's never been the greatest.) He is supposedly working on a series of short films called Études (aka Studies) right now but we should all probably tide ourselves over with The Kingdom for now. And it goes excellent with that ginormous box-set of LVT's entire filmography that I told you about earlier today, actually!