Movies: Willem Dafoe

Donkeys inhabit and communicate with each other - and the filmmakers - in a Sanctuary....

In search of fun and freedom, a trio of animal friends -- a bold monkey with a temper, a timid, bespectacled parrot and a lightning-fast cheetah -- escape from captivity. Their adventures take them around the world and, ultimately, straight into our ...

The world's greatest art thief collects almost two-billion dollars in masters only to have his mother burn them all in the family backyard....

A performance of some of Nelson Algren's greatest and least known works, performed live at the Steppenwolf theatre in Algren's hometown, Chicago....

Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says goodbye to his friends and begins a routine of long days of treatment in hospital. While learning to live w...

Documentary created by Matthew Gray Gubler during, and about, his time on the set of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou....

The Misbehavers documents a small army of guerrilla filmmakers as they converge at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for a mission dubbed Operation: Altitude. The objective: book a venue, market a film, attract acquisitions representatives and pack the...

A short tale about an apple, some paint and a dog with fleas, which also might feature someone who may resemble Willem Dafoe....

Adapted from a novella by James Strahs (the author of “Queer and Alone”, as well as the Wooster Group’s play, “North Atlantic”), this unfinished 1997 film from the Wooster Group was first shown as part of the 1997 Whitney Biennial. Aside from a scree...

From popular piety to blockbuster, from musical to social criticism - Jesus Christ has many faces in film history. And the Italian city of Matera has often served as the backdrop for the Holy Land. Both Pier Paolo Pasolini's early masterpiece “Il Van...

Contemplates the filmmaker’s relationship to the painter Howard Hodgkin. The highly personalised domestic interior of Hodgkin’s London home becomes a container to explore this relationship: as objects and belongings draw out themes of personal loss, ...

A look behind the scenes of Rober Eggers' film "The Lighthouse" (2019)....

Author Barry Gifford's gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in 1950s Chicago provide the backdrop for an impressionistic documentary portrait of a vanished time and place....

Theatron, the film by the multi-award-winning film-maker Giulio Boato, is an unprecedented portrait of Romeo Castellucci. Castellucci and his theatre company, the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, are key protagonists of avantgarde theatre. To a Vivaldi sou...

Behind the scenes of 'The Last Temptation of the Christ'...

A documentary about the making of the movie Wild at Heart, produced for the DVD release of the film....

The magic and creation behind the making of William Friedkin's classic action film To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). It follows cast, crew and the director several years after the film sharing their experiences while working on the project, also includ...

Documentary by Marco Spagnoli....