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There is an elegiac tone and a dash of wit in this lovely, small-scale film held together by Willem Dafoe‘s magnetic presence and natural but compelling performance. He plays Lucius, the American manager of a grand hotel in Vienna, a job he has taken pride in for two decades and will lose soon when a…
When, unbeknownst to each other, two directors pursue the same subject at the same time, typically somebody loses. But when a director and a star just happen to be tracking the same Viennese novella from 1895, everybody wins. That’s what happened to director Kent Jones and Willem Dafoe. It was early 2024, and Jones had…
Willem Dafoe stars as a Greek billionaire in Miguel Ángel Jiménez‘s The Birthday Party, which celebrates its world premiere at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland on Thursday evening. His megalomaniacal shipping magnate may remind people of Aristotle Onassis, but Dafoe didn’t model his character after anyone specific, the star shared mid-day Thursday ahead…
It’s no accident that The Legend of Ochi is set in 1982. Isaiah Saxon’s family fantasy adventure, about Yuri, a 12-year-old girl who bonds with the mysterious ochi monsters — criminally-cute blue-faced primates — is a direct homage to the era, epitomized by 1982 releases E.T. and The Dark Crystal, of blockbusters that beguiled their…
The Legend of Ochi director Isaiah Saxon goes to great lengths to reveal how puppetry, animatronics, CGI and other traditional tools were used to create his mythical ochi creatures for his upcoming A24 film. “As we were shooting, you could see all five puppeteers standing around in plain clothes. If you looked at the puppet,…
The cast and crew of Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Poor Things made their way onto one final red carpet ahead of the film’s theatrical release. Stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Margaret Qualley and Kathryn Hunter, among others, joined Lanthimos and screenwriter Tony McNamara for the New York City premiere of the film on…
There is a grand tradition of messy but glorious films about couples who bring out the crazy in one another and end up doing all manner of bad stuff. Sadly, Pet Shop Days, a directorial debut for writer-producer Olmo Schnabel (son of Julian Schnabel), is just messy and never glorious. Even with the built-in advantage…
Gonzo Girl, Patricia Arquette’s feature directorial debut, is not technically about Hunter S. Thompson. It is about a Hunter S. Thompson type, Walker Reade (Willem Dafoe), invented by Cheryl Della Pietra for her semi-autobiographical novel inspired by her brief stint as Thompson’s assistant. But it’s not really about Walker, either. Its heroine is Alley Russo…
When the Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos last brought a film from the Venice Film Festival to the Telluride Film Festival, the Searchlight title, which counted Tony McNamara as a writer and Emma Stone as the biggest name in its cast, was greeted with rave reviews; went on to double-digits of Oscar nominations, including picture, directing…
Yorgos Lanthimos, who wowed at the Venice Film Festival five years ago with The Favourite, was welcomed back like a returning prince with his new film Poor Things. The Venice crowd gave a hero’s welcome to Lanthimos, who attended the Venice premiere Friday night without his cast — which includes Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem…