Willem Dafoe Articles

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 (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 [...]

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 [...]

Antichrist (2009) Direction & Screenplay: Lars von Trier Cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg   Charlotte Gainsbourg,, Antichrist   Into the Woods (a.k.a, Satan’s Church) It goes without saying that Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist is a disturbing and controversial film. I will not lie; the only reason I decided to watch it was because it was a play instantly on my Netflix queue, and even then, [...]