Front Row: Archive 2011

With Mark Lawson. Film director Lars von Trier hit the headlines with his provocative remarks about Hitler and Nazism at the Cannes Film festival, while promoting his new film Melancholia. It stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg as two sisters reacting to the news that the earth is on a collision course with another planet, called Melancholia. Jenny McCartney reviews.The latest novel in Lee Child's best-selling Jack Reacher series arrives in bookshops tomorrow. This is the 16th thriller following the life of former military policeman Reacher, and Lee Child reflects on why he keeps returning to his grizzled hero.Steven Spielberg's latest project is the multi-million dollar television drama Terra Nova. The action takes place 85 million years ago in a prehistoric alternate reality. Naomi Alderman reviews.Paratrooper turned artist Derek Eland asked front-line soldiers in Afghanistan to write about their experiences. The notes are on display in a new installation at the Imperial War Museum North. Eland di