Willem Dafoe news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Willem Dafoe performances. According to Wikipedia: William Dafoe, Jr. is an Academy Award nominated American film and stage actor and a founding member of the experimental...
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Willem Dafoe news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Willem Dafoe performances. According to Wikipedia: William Dafoe, Jr. is an Academy Award nominated American film and stage actor and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group.
Antichrist (2009). Directed by Lars von Trier.
Off all my movie picks this year, this one scared me the most. I knew very little about the film going in, other than the fact that it was controversial .
I thought this was a good film, a piece of art that can be interpreted in many different ways. I'm not sure I understand all of vonTrier's film but then again, neither does its star. In the Q&A; following the screening, Willem Dafoe said he has no idea why it is called Antichrist , "only... Read Full Story
Cute in a Gollum-tribble-Willem Dafoe kind of way.
The big news coming out of the scientific community today is that scientists have successfully created macaque monkeys from the DNA of three individual monkeys. Here’s the scientific way of saying that (BTW – the story comes from The Guardian . That’s why the spelling’s all wonky):
The team of scientists from the Oregon National Primate Research Centre in effect swapped the mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) from the macaque monkey mother’s egg... Read Full Story
We have been keeping our eye on Disney’s production of John Carter of Mars , their adaptation of the classic novel from Edgar Rice Burroughs. Now there has been 2 more gentlemen cast in the film and that is Sherlock Holmes ‘ villain, Mark Strong and Solomon Kane ’s, James Purefoy. They have both joined the cast of the Andrew Stanton directed feature.
Created by Burroughs, John Carter first appeared in 1911’s A Princess of Mars , the first Burroughs novel set on the fictionalized version... Read Full Story
Antichrist
WARNING : Antichrist contains some of the most explicit scenes out side hardcore pornography that you’ve seen this year! Without a doubt one of the darkest films of the year, Lars Von Trier ’s ( Nocturne , The Element of Crime , Dancer in the Dark , Dogville , Manderlay , and The Boss of It All) Antichrist is generating immense speculation (basically, everything you read on the poster is true). Cinephiles every where have always known that Trier has a warped imagination... Read Full Story
Willem Dafoe has revealed that he was nearly cast as Batman.
But not THAT Batman, Michael Keaton’s Batman way back in 1989.
Yep, back when Tim Burton was looking for his Batman, Dafoe’s name was considered.
Take a read of what Dafoe had to say about it…
“Very early, they talked to me about playing Batman. I hate to [...] Read Full Story
Lionsgate has released this cool new poster for the upcoming vampire thriller, Daybreakers , starring Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe.
Two-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes... Read Full Story
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03/30/2009
Official boycott launched against Jamaica for persecution of gays. 128 prisoners, many of whom were jailed for the "crime" of homosexuality, are set to be executed in Iraq in the near future : "According
to Ali Hili of IRAQI-LGBT, the Iraqi authorities plan to start
executing them in batches of 20 from this week... Read Full Story
Paris Hilton, Willem Dafoe Attend Jamie Gold Cannes Poker FundraiserPoker News Daily, NVVIPs hosted by the Maybach Foundation included hotel heiress and television star Paris Hilton, “Lords of Dogtown†personality Emile Hirsch, Swedish model Malin Akerman, “Spiderman†actor Willem Dafoe, Hofit Golan, “Highlander†actor Adrian Paul, … Read Full Story
The Idiot Savant asks Marie, "Am I no longer capable of saving us from magic words?" In turn, she asks him, "What makes chosen words — magic?" And they're off and running, in the surreal immersion that is Richard Foreman's "Idiot Savant," an absurdist comedy premiering at the Public Theater. Foreman wrote, directed and designed this play, which, like most of his work, has no conventional narrative. Events unfold in a dreamlike, disjointed fashion, taking any number of departures from reality... Read Full Story
