There is great cinema today, sadly a lot of great movies lack proper distribution. Go to film festivals, the quality of movies is only increasing

There is a lot of good cinema out there, it's just not at your fingertips. I too have become too lazy to look further than my nose's length.

There's even some good stuff in the big cinemas. Barbie was excellent for example.

Same as with the "good internet". It's still out there, only under layers and layers of mediocre and/or terrible stuff nobody has the time to go through.

Lars Von Trier is objectively good cinema

egh, as much as I enjoyed his Dogme 95 fayre when I was young and far more self-important, I find his later 'big cinema' output turgid twaddle.

Melancholia was just about bareable but from Mandalay onwards I could barely struggle through to the end of his flicks.

Nymphomaniac made me almost literally angry at its denouement. Just.. shit.

i guess. he's also a misogynistic piece of shit

Who would have thought an auteur would be a fully formed and flawed person where flaws may be as extreme as their talent.

It’s almost as if creativity is connected to emotions, ideology and experience or something.

everyone, i think. doesn't mean auteurs have to make movies glorifying their flaws without a trace of introspection for 20+ years.

I suppose that's not what you meant, but I love the idea of "Lars Von Trier" as a persona being good cinema.

At the very least, it made me understand that I need him to appear as himself in the next Death Stranding game.

Agreed.

Also Lars Von Trier is objectively not involved in this (only in Dogma 95, which this is "based on").

Name a movie that’s your reference of good cinema

Inland Empire