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Willem Dafoe

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  1. The Hunter fails to hit target
    Saskatoon Star-Phoenix logo Saskatoon Star-Phoenix 3 hours ago

    1/2 starsThere’s no arguing Willem Dafoe’s onscreen presence, but in the film The Hunter it is the landscape that is the true star. The Australian movie is set in the wilds of Tasmania, home to stunning forests and sheer cliffs. There’s a story, too,... Full Article at Saskatoon Star-Phoenix

  2. Cannes 2012: Cannes controversies in pictures
    The Telegraph logo The Telegraph 6 days ago

    One of the more gruesome features to be shown at Cannes in recent years was Lars Von Trier’s sinister 2009 drama Antichrist, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe. One pivotal scene saw Gainsbourg crush Dafoe’s testicles with a block of wood –... Full Article at The Telegraph

  3. Getty Images logo Getty Images 2 months ago
    NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 13: Director Daniel Nettheim (L) and actor Willem Dafoe attend 'The Hunter' screening during Moves' 2012 Spring Fashion Issue launch at the Crosby Street Hotel on March 13, 2012 in New York City.

    NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 13: Director Daniel Nettheim (L) and actor Willem Dafoe attend 'The Hunter' screening during Moves' 2012 Spring Fashion Issue launch at the Crosby Street Hotel on March 13, 2012 in New York City. View Photo »

  4. He is a guy who is really cut off ... But the beautiful arc to the story sees him coming back to feeling... And I like that the end is ambiguous enough that people can take what they want from it. I like when people can participate in a movie that way.
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: Ottawa Sun 1 month ago
  5. The Hunter
    Boston.com logo Boston.com 1 week ago

    Just be thankful this wiry, wily actor — battle-scarred from experiences in avant-garde theater, mainstream blockbusters, and everything in between — has landed a rare lead role, even if he literally had to go to the other side of the planet to find it. Full Article at Boston.com

  6. Review: The Hunter
    The Phoenix logo The Phoenix 1 week ago

    Daniel Nettheim's film is equally weird and motley. Following up on sightings of a surviving specimen of the beast, a shadowy company hires the hunter (Willem Dafoe ) of the title to track it down and kill it. Their reason for this is not very... Full Article at The Phoenix

  7. Celebrity Screening of "MARLEY" Documentary Allows Fans to Watch the Movie and Interact Live With Ziggy Marley on Facebook(R) May 19
    MarketWire logo MarketWire 1 week ago

    Recent releases include Lars von Trier's "Melancholia," David Gelb's "Jiro Dreams of Sushi," "The Hunter" starring Willem Dafoe, Hirokazu Kore-Eda's "I Wish" and Scandinavian thriller "Headhunters." Magnolia's upcoming releases include Sarah Polley's... Full Article at MarketWire

  8. Getty Images logo Getty Images 2 months ago
    AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 11: (L-R) Director Daniel Nettheim, actor Willem Dafoe and producer Vincent Sheehan attend 'The Hunter' Greenroom Photo Op during the 2012 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at Paramount Theatre on March 11, 2012 in Austin, Texas.

    AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 11: (L-R) Director Daniel Nettheim, actor Willem Dafoe and producer Vincent Sheehan attend 'The Hunter' Greenroom Photo Op during the 2012 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at Paramount Theatre on March 11, 2012 in Austin, Texas. View Photo »

  9. Willem Dafoe simply because he and I are both from Appleton! Woot!
    SOURCE: On Milwaukee 1 month ago
  10. The Graham Norton Show - 2009 - S5x10 Willem Dafoe, Lily Allen Part 1.
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  11. At the Movies
    Ottawa Citizen logo Ottawa Citizen 2 weeks ago
    It must be summer: The Templeton Drive-In at 1779 Maloney Blvd. in Gatineau has opened. One of the movies playing there this week is The Avengers, starring Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Chris Evans ad Captain America.

    Jennifer Lawrence is a steely heroine, and director Gary Ross makes the spectacle a grimly believable extension of reality TV. (Jay Stone) Willem Dafoe finds just the right balance of alpha male and sensitive anti-hero as a skilled mercenary hunting in... Full Article at Ottawa Citizen

  12. ON THE BIG SCREEN
    Guelph Mercury logo Guelph Mercury 2 weeks ago

    Johnny Depp that’s who. If anyone can keep audiences going out to theatres, he can. Depp and director Tim Burton team up once again for the only wide release film out of Hollywood this week with Dark Shadows. Princess Cinema screens The Hunter with... Full Article at Guelph Mercury

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    Destructoid logo Destructoid 2 weeks ago
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    If that doesn't sound like the best videogame-themed podcast ever, then you're probably a nice person with a kind heart. Plenty of game discussion is to be had, however. We talk about the fiscal results for Capcom and Electronic Arts, the joys of Dead... Full Article at Destructoid

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  1. NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 13: Director Daniel Nettheim (L) and actor Willem Dafoe attend 'The Hunter' screening during Moves' 2012 Spring Fashion Issue launch at the Crosby Street Hotel on March 13, 2012 in New York City.
  2. AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 11: (L-R) Director Daniel Nettheim, actor Willem Dafoe and producer Vincent Sheehan attend 'The Hunter' Greenroom Photo Op during the 2012 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at Paramount Theatre on March 11, 2012 in Austin, Texas.
  3. AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 11: Actor Willem Dafoe attends 'The Hunter Red' Carpet Arrivals during the 2012 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at Paramount Theatre on March 11, 2012 in Austin, Texas.
  4. NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 09: Willem Dafoe attends the '4:44 Last Day On Earth' screening during the LES* Film Festival 2012 at the Crosby Street Hotel on March 9, 2012 in New York City.
  5. NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 09: Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Adel Ferrara, Natasha Lyonne, Shannon Walker; Damon Cardasis, Roxy Hunt, Tony Castle and Jimmy Celeste attend the '4:44 Last Day On Earth' screening during the LES* Film Festival 2012 at the Crosby Street Hotel on March 9, 2012 in New...
  6. NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 09: Adel Ferrara, Shanyn Leigh, Natasha Lyonne and Willem Dafoe attends the '4:44 Last Day On Earth' screening during the LES* Film Festival 2012 at the Crosby Street Hotel on March 9, 2012 in New York City.
  7. US actor Willem Dafoe attends the UK premiere of John Carter in central London, on March 01, 2012.
  8. LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 01: (UK TABLOID Willem Dafoe and his wife Giada Colagrande attend the UK premiere of John Carter at The BFI Southbank on March 1, 2012 in London, England.
  9. U.S actor Willem Dafoe arrives for the UK premiere of John Carter at a central London venue Thursday, March 1, 2012.

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William J. "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He is best known for his roles in Wild at Heart, To Live and Die in L.A. , Platoon, Flight of the Intruder, The Last Temptation of Christ, Shadow of the... Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. He is a guy who is really cut off ... But the beautiful arc to the story sees him coming back to feeling... And I like that the end is ambiguous enough that people can take what they want from it. I like when people can participate in a movie that way.
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: Ottawa Sun 1 month ago
  2. Willem Dafoe simply because he and I are both from Appleton! Woot!
    SOURCE: On Milwaukee 1 month ago
  3. Even when we were there, I remember right in the middle of shooting there was a serious sighting. Periodically people have sightings and now there are even people with videos. They put them on YouTube and they're always grainy
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: CTV 1 month ago
  4. Remember ‘Ishtar’? That starred a couple of guys named Willem Dafoe’s first film, and I’d say he’s had a pretty decent career since then, wouldn’t you?
    SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times 2 months ago
  5. Even when we were there, I remember right in the middle of shooting there was a serious sighting. Periodically people have sightings and now there are even people with videos. They put them on YouTube and they're always grainy
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: CTV 1 month ago
  6. A Conversation with Willem Dafoe
    SOURCE: Movie Morlocks 2 months ago
  7. I really thrive on filming in remote locations because the world drops away
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: CTV 1 month ago
  8. I’m gonna go quite gritty again. I’ve been very lucky to surround myself with amazing people, from Willem Dafoe to Benicio del Toro to Liam Neeson. I can’t say too much, but I think this next step, if we do it, will be incredibly gritty. I think people will dig it. And when they hear the news they’ll ge...
    SOURCE: ScreenRant 2 months ago
  9. People always assume that I’m going to say, ‘Bob was a big pain to work with,’ because they assume that his work would be no fun for an actor. It’s great fun. He gives you a world, a language, and a very refined language.
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: The New York Times 1 month ago
  10. Do a Top 10 list of movies in which Willem Dafoe is NOT creepy.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 months ago
  11. Some of that landscape is really brutal ... There's something called button grass, which is these little tufts of grass, and it looks sweet and nice, but around all the tufts is this swamp filled with leeches and bugs, and after about five minutes you're pulling leeches off and you're getting eaten aliv...
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: Canada.com 1 month ago
  12. Men see in Willem Dafoe’s face, sober, what they see in Greta Garbo’s face, drunk.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 2 months ago
  13. It had such a specific sense of place ... I liked the combination of this personal story at the centre of this huge canvas, and I like the idea of the adventure to inform what I was doing.
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: Montreal Gazette 1 month ago
  14. It was the most natural thing to kiss the screen at the end
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: Wall Street Journal 2 months ago
  15. There are so many Skype calls in this movie
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: Wall Street Journal 2 months ago
  16. I talked to one journalist that saw the movie ('John Carter') and thought I just voiced Tars Tarkus
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: HitFix 2 months ago
  17. I think clearly people appreciate what Andy Serkis does, so that’s where the dialog came in
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: HitFix 2 months ago
  18. I like the source very much — coming from 1912 it was just the beginning of the imagining of space in popular literature
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: PopMatters 2 months ago
  19. I hope [audiences] enjoy it ... It's dense enough and it's got a lot of interesting themes in it, so I think different people are going to enjoy it for different things. That's always suspicious when you hear that, but when I see the movie, I think 'Wow, this has roots, this is not superficial, this add...
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: OnTheRedcarpet.com 2 months ago
  20. I got a little help [in the height department] ... I wore stilts because I'm a motion-capture character but Andrew [Stanton] was very insistent on shooting the scene so that the animators could animate too. He wanted the scenes to be realized in the shooting, so that was an interesting process.
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: OnTheRedcarpet.com 2 months ago
  21. I came to the project more through Andrew
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: Comic Book Resources 2 months ago
  22. There’s a parallel between Tars Tarkas and John Carter because they’re both conflicted, they’re both reluctant, they’re both people who are a little shut off in the beginning and then they come to feeling and caring for others ... Tars Tarkas has to keep his position in the world by maintaining that bru...
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: Comic Book Resources 2 months ago
  23. I knew what the character looked like, I knew there had to be something strong and regal about him but not cartoony
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: Comic Book Resources 2 months ago
  24. I think the Thark language, though it’s used minimally, is important to set up the characters and it was through the Thark language that you find the voice
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: Comic Book Resources 2 months ago
  25. but they put my face into this lascivious, open-mouthed, I.Q.-missing leer. Put those teeth in me right now and I could probably play those scenes.
    – Willem Dafoe SOURCE: The New York Times 2 months ago

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