When Willem Dafoe receives his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Jan. 8, the distinction will commemorate more than just a four-time Oscar nominee, but an actor so versatile that he has embodied everything from a conflicted messiah in “The Last Temptation of Christ” to the tortured father figure of “Antichrist.” Is there an actor working today with greater range?
With his deep-set eyes, sharp nose and broad smile, Dafoe has depicted his share of devils, from creepy “Nosferatu” star Max Schreck in “Shadow of the Vampire” to comic-book villain the Green Goblin in “Spider-Man 2.” But he also excels at the other end of the spectrum, as when he plays God in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things,” a Frankensteinian surgeon charitably committed to reanimating dead creatures, like Emma Stone’s Bella.
“My character has this beautiful predicament, because he adores her so much and she adores him, but what she needs,...
With his deep-set eyes, sharp nose and broad smile, Dafoe has depicted his share of devils, from creepy “Nosferatu” star Max Schreck in “Shadow of the Vampire” to comic-book villain the Green Goblin in “Spider-Man 2.” But he also excels at the other end of the spectrum, as when he plays God in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things,” a Frankensteinian surgeon charitably committed to reanimating dead creatures, like Emma Stone’s Bella.
“My character has this beautiful predicament, because he adores her so much and she adores him, but what she needs,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Terry Gilliam's Time On Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Was More Mundane Than The Movie Makes It Seem
Hunter S. Thompson was my favorite writer when I was in my early 20s, and I really bought into the idea of gonzo journalism. Thanks to "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved," I interpreted it as this: Take a trip somewhere, get wasted, indulge in some wild and crazy s***, then write about it. I was pretty good at the wild and crazy part back then, but the problem was that I forgot to actually write anything. When I did occasionally get around to putting pen to paper, I found myself aping Thompson's style way too much.
I was over my Hunter Thompson obsession by the time Terry Gilliam's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" hit our screens in 1998, but I still couldn't see how it played out. For me, Ralph Steadman's aggressive illustrations were as inseparable from the text...
I was over my Hunter Thompson obsession by the time Terry Gilliam's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" hit our screens in 1998, but I still couldn't see how it played out. For me, Ralph Steadman's aggressive illustrations were as inseparable from the text...
- 11/3/2022
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
Hunter Thompson had America’s number before most of us even knew. Attending the 1964 Republican convention that resulted in hard-right Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater becoming the party’s nominee for president, Thompson was “genuinely frightened at the violent reaction [the gathering] provoked,” including hostility toward the media. Several years later, he noted that Richard Nixon “represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.” The country itself, he wrote, was “just a nation of 220 million used...
- 10/31/2018
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
He is dedicated as ever to certain indecencies and shall we say reversible brain damage. . . …he was among the first of the Sucking Chest Wound Singers to sleep on the yellow line . . .this throwback altarboy of Mobile, Alabama, brings spacey up-country tunes strewn with forgotten crabtraps, Confederate memories, chemical daydreams, Ipana vulgarity, ukulele madness and, yes Larry, a certain sweetness. But there is a good deal to admire in Buffett’s inspired evocations from this queerly amalgamated past most Americans now share. What Jimmy Buffett knows is that our personal...
- 10/4/1979
- by Chet Flippo
- Rollingstone.com
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