Berlin International Film Festival · 2018
9 films · 6 reviews
The main horror element is a deep psychological manipulation that stays with you for days afterwards.
(Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland; Year: 2009; Director: Lars von Trier; Writer: Lars von Trier; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg) , Official site , Trailer
The film's attempt at softcore titillation fails; it's like a tacky home movie, masquerading as social comment.
(Country: US; Year: 2002; Director: Paul Schrader; Writer: Michael Gerbosi; Stars: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman, Bruce Solomon, Michael E Rodgers, Kurt Fuller)
While the script wraps up its ambiguities a little too neatly in the end, the themes it wrestles with are sensitively handled for the most part and resonate long after the credits have rolled.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2011; Director: Daniel Nettheim; Writer: Wain Fimeri, based on the novel by Julia Leigh.; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Frances O'Connor, Finn Woodlock, Morgana Davies, Sullivan Stapleton, Callan Mulvey)
(Year: 1988; Director: Martin Scorsese; Stars: Willem Dafoe)
Anderson creates sealed, self-supporting worlds, crammed with excruciating detail.
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Wes Anderson; Writer: Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach; Stars: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Bud Cort, Seu Jorge, Robyn Cohen, Waris Ahluwalia)
(Year: 1988; Director: Alan Parker; Writer: Chris Gerolmo; Stars: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe)
Pasolini's unfinished life remains painfully unresolved, as it should be.
(Country: France, Italy, Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Abel Ferrara; Writer: Abel Ferrara, Maurizio Braucci, Nicola Tranquillino; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Maria de Medeiros, Riccardo Scamarcio, Giada Colagrande, Salvatore Ruocco, Adriana Asti, Valerio Mastandrea, Roberto Zibetti, Tatiana Luter, Guillaume Rumiel Braun, Diego Pagotto)
A true original.
(Country: US; Year: 2000; Director: E Elias Merhige; Writer: Steven Katz; Stars: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier, Cary Elwes, Catherine McCormack, Eddie Izzard, Aden Gillett, Nicholas Elliott, Ronan Vibert, Sophie Langevin, Myriam Muller)
(Director: William Friedkin; Stars: William L. Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro)
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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