Dancer in the Dark & Dogville with Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Featuring a conversation with actor Siobhan Fallon Hogan (Men in Black, Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live).
Between the screenings, Fallon Hogan will discuss her work with director Lars von Trier in the films Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, and The House That Jack Built, moderated by Coolidge program director Mark Anastasio.
About Dancer in the Dark
A heartbreaking performance from avant-pop icon Björk lights up this singular, emotionally wrenching musical from Lars von Trier, who made use of over a hundred handheld digital video cameras to bring a raw immediacy to the story of Selma, a Czech immigrant living in America and working desperately to save her son from the same disease that is slowly taking her sight. To distract from the crushing reality of her work in a tough rural factory, the loving mother escapes into her imagination and envisions herself in classic Hollywood musicals, a place where illness and poverty are replaced by ecstatic song-and-dance numbers.
About Dogville
Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret, and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth.
About Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Siobhan Fallon Hogan thirty five year career as an actress, screenwriter and producer has included iconic roles in SNL, Men in Black, Seinfeld, Forrest Gump, Holes and many more. After raising three children, the actress began writing and producing award winning independent films. Fallon Hogan penned and starred in her first film Rushed also starring Robert Patrick, (Terminator), Jake Weary (Animal Kingdom), Peri Gilpin (Fraser), and Fallon Hogan. Vertical Entertainment released the film which was coproduced with Denmark’s Lars von Trier’s Zentropa and had and had a domestic and international release in theaters in 2021.
Her second film Shelter in Solitude was released by AMC and Regal Theaters across the USA in 2023 and is now streaming and boasting a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
In addition to several roles in America blockbusters and television, Fallon Hogan has worked internationally with Denmark’s Lars von Trier in three of his films Dancer in the Dark (Palme D’Or Winner), Dogville (Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara) and The House That Jack Built (Matt Dillon, Cannes Opening Night Selection 2018).
Siobhan is heading to Italy and Guatemala to play a supporting role in a Lionsgate film. Upon her return she heads to Buffalo, NY to play a great role in an independent.
Fallon Hogan has been married to producer Peter Hogan, for 33 years. They have three children Bernadette, 29, NY1 political correspondent, Peter, 26, actor/music supervisor, and Sinead, 23, production designer and actress. The Hogans formed Emerald Caz Productions in 2019.
