Willem Dafoe Articles
Andrew Stanton/JOHN CARTER Movie Actually Needs to Earn Much More Than $700 Million
Taylor Kitsch as John Carter, Mars hero Andrew Stanton's 3D sci-fier John Carter "will have to earn about $700 million to justify a sequel," according to a New Yorker profile on Stanton. Why so much dough? That's because Stanton's first live-action movie cost a reported $250 million — not including the marketing/distribution expenses to be incurred by distributor Disney. For comparison's sake: Stanton's Finding Nemo [...]
James Caviezel's Jesus Backlash: 'Rejected in My Own Industry'
James Caviezel as Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ James Caviezel claims he has been "rejected in my own industry" after playing Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004) — worshiped by many as the closest a Hollywood blockbuster will ever get to the Second Coming, reviled by others as a sadistic, fetishistic work tainted with anti-Semitism. Caviezel came [...]
AFFLICTION Review – Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn d: Paul Schrader
AFFLICTION (1998) Direction: Paul Schrader Cast: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe, Mary Beth Hurt, Jim True, Marian Seldes Screenplay: Paul Schrader; from Russell Banks' novel Oscar Movies Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe, Sissy Spacek, Affliction Set in a snowy New England town, Affliction could have been an excellent depiction of a dysfunctional family's cycle of violence and how that is affected [...]
Lars von Trier's ANTICHRIST Commentary Part II
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Antichrist In another scene which similarly draws on the claustrophobic terror of the woods, He is attempting to guide She through her fear of the natural surroundings with a "game," wherein She must walk from one stone to another through several feet of grass. Her bare feet exposed to the long, overgrown grass, again shot in slow motion, gives the sense [...]