"We had the white gloves on and everything," Dafoe said, "and we were gently going through it looking at the drawings. With roots in The Wooster Group, New York’s late-’70s experimental theater ensemble. I’m a doer , says the 63-year-old, whose doing puts him in both art installations and blockbusters.
Willem Dafoe Van Gogh Movie But This
It is not an awards movie" made with one eye on the Oscars. But Dafoe said his Van Gogh film is more than a simple biopic."I hate to be a cheerleader for my own movie but this is quite radical and emotional, it is not conventional in any way. 3.While the authenticity of the sketchbook is disputed - the Van Gogh Museum and two major experts on the artist are at war over the issue - Dafoe believes it is genuine.Both he and the mercurial Schnabel, a famed neo-expressionist artist best known for his huge broken plate paintings, are on familiar territory tackling the furies that drive and sometimes dog great artists.Dafoe had to grapple with the demons of the great Italian director Paolo Pasolini in Abel Ferrara's 2014 film "Pasolini." Schnabel also brought the tortured life of his old friend on the New York art scene, Jean Michel Basquiat, to the big screen in "Basquiat."In that film, the painter, who got four Oscar nods for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," did not pull back from the hell Basquiat endured before his early death from a heroin overdose. "He was forcing a transmission, a connection between me and Van Gogh, and I think it worked."Willem Dafoes Academy Award-nominated performance as Vincent van Gogh highlights this Julian Schnabel film that journeys inside the world and mind of the.Critics at the Venice film festival agree, with Dafoe an early favorite for the best actor prize after "At Eternity's Gate" was premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. "It was like something out of 'The Exorcist'," the actor said.
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