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Willem Dafoe

American actor (born 1955)

William James "Willem" Dafoe (dÉ™-FOH; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. Known for his prolific career portraying diverse roles in both mainstream and arthouse films, he is the recipient of various accolades, including nominations for four Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. He received an Honorary Golden Bear in 2018.

Dafoe made his film debut with an uncredited role in Heaven's Gate (1980).[1] He is known for collaborating with auteur filmmakers like Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers. He received Academy Award nominations for playing a compassionate army Sergeant in the war drama Platoon (1986), Max Schreck in the mystery film Shadow of the Vampire (2000), a kindly motel manager in the coming of age film The Florida Project (2017), and Vincent van Gogh in the biopic At Eternity's Gate (2018).

His other films credits include To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), B

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Pasolini (film)

2014 film

Pasolini

Italian theatrical release poster

Directed byAbel Ferrara
Written byMaurizio Braucci
Story by
  • Abel Ferrara
  • Nicola Tranquillino
Produced by
  • Thierry Lounas
  • Conchita Airoldi
  • Joseph Rouschop
Starring
Narrated byLuca Lionello
CinematographyStefano Falivene
Edited byFabio Nunziata

Production
companies

  • Capricci Films
  • Urania Pictures
  • Tarantula
  • Dublin Films
Distributed by
  • Capricci Films (France)
  • Europictures (Italy)

Release dates

  • 4 September 2014 (2014-09-04) (Venice)
  • 25 September 2014 (2014-09-25) (Italy)
  • 31 December 2014 (2014-12-31) (France)

Running time

84 minutes[1]
Countries
Languages

Pasolini is a 2014 English-language internationally co-produced drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and written by Maurizio Braucci about the final days of Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (played by Willem Dafoe). It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st

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A love letter from one iconoclastic Italian Catholic artist to another, Abel Ferrara‘s “Pasolini” stays far from the cliches of the Hollywood biopic, embracing a fragmented, intense, impressionistic approach. Covering the last 24 hours in the life of its title character, this is one of the most intuitive and mysterious movie biographies made in a while. It deserves comparison to “Fruitvale Station” (which shares its Aristotelian unity of time and place, and likewise ends with a graphic, public murder) and “32 Short Films about Glenn Gould” (which tried to represent the artist’s work as well as key moments in his life). There’s not much rhyme or reason to where it goes at any given moment, and that’s a source of charm as well as frustration.

The subject is, of course, Pier Paolo Pasolini, the director of “The Gospel According to Matthew,” “Teorama,” “The Canterbury Tales,” “Arabian Nights,” and other art house classics. Pasolini, playe

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