Willem Dafoe

Interview: Willem Dafoe Is The Hunter

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 04.05.2012

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It was one of the most wonderful and unique starts to an interview ever: Within a minute, Willem was speaking in the incomprehensible babble of the Looney Tunes Tasmanian Devil. And then in Italian. Two of the world's finest languages!

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The Indie on Demand Movie Review: 4:44 Last Day on Earth

Dan Persons | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Abel Ferrara, Shanyn Leigh, Apocalypse, 4:44 Last Day on Earth, Willem Dafoe, Humanity, End of the World, Spirituality, Entertainment News

The newest episode of my short radio series The Indie on Demand Movie Review takes a look at 4:44 Last Day on Earth.

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Willem Dafoe Talks Indie Films, 'The Hunter,' 'Last Day On Earth'

HuffingtonPost.com | Nicki Gostin | Posted 03.21.2012

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Willem Dafoe may have one big-budget film in theaters right now, but "John Carter" isn't the only movie fans can catch him in these days. The 56-ye...

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Willem Dafoe: Loving the Alien in John Carter

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Mars, Disney, John Carter, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Willem Dafoe, John Carter Interview, Disney John Carter, John Carter Movie, Willem Dafoe Interview, A Princess of Mars, Entertainment News

You cannot prepare for it. Your expectations may never match the reality. Willem Dafoe has played vampires, monsters, goblins (of the green variety), pervs, psychotherapists, bikers and even that kinda conflicted Christ guy.

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Celebrity Skype Portraits

Posted 04.01.2012

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It is a challenge to depict the modern world in a modern language, but manipulated photography, film, interactive digital sculptures and other new med...

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Charlotte Gainsbourg May Star In von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac'

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Jane Birkin, Antichrist, Auteur, Serge Gainsbourg, Filmmaking, Cannes, Lars Von Trier, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Lars-Von-Trier-Nymphomaniac, Cannes Film Festival, Filmmaker, Arts News

Charlotte Gainsbourg, the actress daughter of Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, may star in Lars von Trier's latest film, but...

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Family Man?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessie Heyman | Posted 12.26.2011

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Willem Dafoe has worn many hats: a libertine solider (which earned him an Oscar nod), a cackling Green Goblin, a red-capped second-in-command -- he ev...

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Anticipating Doomsday at the 49th New York Film Festival: Melancholia and 4:44 Last Day on Earth

Regina Weinreich | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Abel Ferrara, 4:44 Last Day on Earth, Charlotte Gainsburg, Lars Von Trier, Willem Dafoe, Kiefer Sutherland, Kirsten Dunst, Alexander Skarsgard, Melancholia, Entertainment News

If the world ends any time soon, as threatened for 2012, what will the last day on earth look like? That is the dominant conceit for two films in this year's New York Film Festival.

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Willem Dafoe Lets Loose

The Moviefone Blog | Chris Jancelewicz (Subscribe to Chris Jancelewicz's Posts) | Posted 11.10.2011

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Willem Dafoe is back in the jungle again -- this time for 'The Hunter,' a pensive drama that takes place in Tasmania. Screening at the Toronto Film Fe...

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'Last Day On Earth' Focuses On Couple Skyping Their Goodbyes To Loved Ones

AP | By SHERI JENNINGS | Posted 11.07.2011

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VENICE, Italy -- Abel Ferrara made his new film "4:44 Last Day on Earth" to serve as a wake-up call to humanity over impending ecological disasters. ...

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Von Trier To Release 'Hardcore' & 'Softcore' Versions Of Next Film

Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Pornography, Nymphomania, Antichrist, Hardcore, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lars Von Trier, Cannes, Willem Dafoe, Melancholia, Film, Softcore, Censorship, Movies, Arts News

Getting a film past the censors must be difficult when it's titled "Nymphomaniac" and its description in the Guardian is "the erotic life of a woman f...

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Marina Abramovic Opera: 'Travesty'

Telegraph | Richard Dorment | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: The Artist Is Present, Ulay, Antony Hegarty, Marina Abramovic, Lowry Theater, The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, Opera, Croatia, Willem Dafoe, Serbia, Antony and the Johnsons, Performance Art, Robert Wilson, Museum of Modern Art, Telegraph, UK Arts, Arts News

It was to be the starriest artwork/theatrical event of the decade: an "opera" based on the life of the performance artist Marina Abramovic conceived a...

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Miral Screens at the United Nations General Assembly

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Schnabel's film does not instigate a new critique. Rather, continues a discourse in Israel with intellectuals and writers like David Grossman, Amos Oz, and Yehuda Amichai.

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PERFORMANCE ART: Marina Abramovic and Robert Wilson Join Forces

Marina Cashdan | Posted 05.25.2011

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HuffPost Review: Tales From Earthsea

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm sure that Tales from Earthsea, taken from the science-fiction writing of Ursula LeGuin, will entertain undiscriminating young viewers and will probably thrill anime lovers. It left me bored and impatient.

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Alexander Siddig Is Part of Julian Schnabel's Latest Cinematic Canvas

Ashley Wren Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patricia Clarkson, Cairo Time, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Clash of the Titans, Tribeca Film Festival, Freida Pinto, Alexander Siddig, Venice Film Festival, Rubba Nada, Willem Dafoe, Syriana, Julian Schnabel, Star Trek, Miral, Entertainment News

"I am so confused about who I am in my life now, it's not even funny!" This joyful lament is that of the tall, dark drink of water that is actor Alexander Siddig, star of Cairo Time.

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The New $100: The War on Counterfeiting

Christopher Leibig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, One Hundred Dollar Bill, Counterfeiting, $100 Bills, Counterfeit Bills, Willem Dafoe, Politics News

Treasury's anti-counterfeiting strategy will work because it seeks as much to prevent counterfeiting from occurring at all as it does to punish culprits. It was not always this way.

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The Hard-Won Legacy of Gene Hackman

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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The story of Gene Hackman, who quietly turned eighty just two months ago, is one of raw will and talent overcoming a host of limitations that would have defeated most people.

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ReelzChannel: Top Ten "Uh, That Didn't Go as Planned" Movies

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

It's a basic tenet of good storytelling that whatever plans your characters put into action, it can't hurt if things don't go quite as smoothly as anticipated.

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The Lost Delusion

Greg Evans | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Evangeline Lilly, Last Temptation of Christ, Matthew Fox, Creationism, The Bible, Reason, Willem Dafoe, Science, Nikos Kazantzakis, Lost, Richard Dawkins, Old Testament, Faith, Entertainment News

Watching Lost has always been an act of faith. Polar bears, time travel, everything -- it's one long benefit of the doubt. But something's different this season, some conversion where faith has become Faith.

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Ethan Hawke Survives a Vampire Film to Direct a Sam Shepard Revival

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

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What would Ethan Hawke do differently if he could live life without fear of death? "I would smoke all the time and I would ride a motorcycle everywhere."

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Daybreakers: A Vampire Movie With Style and Gore Rather than Sexual Frustration

Alex Remington | Posted 05.25.2011

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The key to Daybreakers is its ultra-sleek style. It imagines a world in the future when vampires have taken over society, and the sleek contours of every building provide an elegant contrast to the movie's shocking gore.

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On Lars Von Trier's Anti-Christ

Michael Vazquez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lars Von Trier, Michael Vazquez, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anti-Christ, New York Film Festival, Willem Dafoe, Entertainment News

While many are going to focus yet again on whether Von Trier is a misogynist (more on that in a minute), I found in this film a central impulse to indict as ineffective and self-deceiving man's attempts to superimpose order atop his own woefully un-examined (mis-examined?) nature.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Lars von Trier's Antichrist: A Conversation

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Violence, Earth, Justice, Repression, World, Murder, Horror, Emotion, Lars Von Trier, Sex, Drama, Suspense, Controversy, Death, Indie, Environment, Gore, Antichrist, Acting Legend, Fantasy, Off Beat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Art, Love, Entertainment News

"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.

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Movie Review: Daybreakers

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Claudia Karvan, Vampires, Willem Dafoe, True Blood, Twilight, Daybreakers Movie Review, Sam Neill, Ethan Hawke, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Entertainment News

Daybreakers, which opens Friday, comes as a welcome treat, a speculative sci-fi film disguised as a horror story, or perhaps a blend of the two.

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