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Martin Scorsese will soon be seen on the big screen, and he won’t be playing himself.

The master director, who is being feted with Berlin Film Festival’s honorary Golden Bear on Tuesday night, has a small but powerful role playing an elderly sage who influences Dante Alighieri while he is writing “The Divine Comedy” in Julian Schnabel’s upcoming crime mystery “In the Hands of Dante.”

Though Scorsese has cameoed in many of his movies and occasionally performed in films by other directors – he played Vincent van Gogh in a segment of Akira Kurosawa’s 1990 film “Dreams” and also performed as voice talent as the loan shark pufferfish in “Shark Tale” – this role is likely to be among his meatiest.

“He is extraordinary in the film,” Schnabel tells Variety, calling Scorsese’s part “a brilliant, important role” and adding: “You can’t take your eyes off him.”

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Experience Willem Dafoe’s award-winning and Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated performance as the legendary Vincent van Gogh when the acclaimed Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes At Eternity’s Gate arrives on Digital January 29 and on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD, and On Demand February 12 from Lionsgate.

Experience Willem Dafoe’s award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated performance as the legendary Vincent van Gogh when the acclaimed Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes At Eternity’s Gate arrives on Digital January 29 and on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD, and On Demand February 12 from Lionsgate. Starring alongside Dafoe is an all-star cast including Primetime Emmy® nominee Rupert Friend, Mads Mikkelsen, and Golden Globe® winner Oscar Isaac. This “unbridled portrait of the painful but productive final years in the life of Vincent van Gogh” is not a biopic, but rather a stunning depiction of Van Gogh’s final years. Directed by Golden Globe® winner and Oscar® nominee Julian Schnabel,...

Willem Dafoe is on an awards hot streak, following his many wins and nominations last year for “The Florida Project.” His latest project is “At Eternity’s Gate,” the new Julian Schnabel film in which Dafoe plays the artist Vincent van Gogh. Dafoe has earned a Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe nomination for his performance, following a Best Actor win at the Venice Film Festival.

Dafoe recently chatted with Gold Derby contributing editor Zach Laws about why he wanted to work with Schnabel again, getting into van Gogh’s head and why the film was “scary” but also “fun.” Watch the exclusive web chat above and read the complete interview transcript below.

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Stars: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Niels Arestrup, Anne Consigny, Amira Casar, Vincent Perez, Lolita Chammah | Written by Jean-Claude Carrière, Louise Kugelberg | Directed by Julian Schnabel

Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate may just be the biggest surprise masterpiece of the year. In a compelling and spectacular piece of avant-garde filmmaking that is outrageously marvellous in every frame. Not having seen something shot this beautifully or aesthetically thoughtful in terms of emotionally engaging style since a partnership of director Terrence Malick and cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki. To simplify, Schnabel’s film is a stunning composition of visual art that both mends and breaks one’s heart in the same poetic breath.

The cinematography and artistic flair from cinematographer Benoît Delhomme is genius,...

Paul Auster on who was originally cast in the role Willem Dafoe plays in Lulu On The Bridge: "I had wanted Salman Rushdie to play the part."

Paul Auster's journey with putting together the production of his solo directorial début Lulu On The Bridge, was a challenging one for him and his producers Peter Newman and Greg Johnson. The film stars Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino and Willem Dafoe with Gina Gershon, Mandy Patinkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Edson, Don Byron, Victor Argo, Kevin Corrigan, Sophie Auster, Lou Reed and David Byrne.

At Eternity's Gate with Louise Kugelberg, Jean-Claude Carrière, Julian Schnabel, Willem Dafoe, Oscar Isaac, and Rupert Friend at the 56th New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

In the second instalment of my conversation with Paul Auster on his film career, we discuss the pitfalls that had to be overcome, the reaction to casting Salman Rushdie, Golden Globe nominee...

After being interrupted last year, the Marrakech Film Festival returned with a bang for the opening of its 17th edition.

A flurry of stars and industry figures graced the red carpet including jury president James Gray (“The Immigrant”), and jury members Dakota Johnson (“Suspiria”), who was wearing a glitzy pink gown, Lynne Ramsay (“You Were Never Really Here”), Laurent Cantet (“The Class”), Indian actress Ileana D’Cruz (“Barfi!”), Lebanese filmmaker and visual artist Joana Hadjithomas (“I Want to See”), Moroccan director Tala Hadid (“House in the Fields”), German actor Daniel Brühl and Mexican director Michel Franco (“April’s Daughter”).

The festival’s kickoff night also lured Cannes Film Festival’s artistic director Thierry Fremaux, who will give a masterclass, and festival honoree Agnes Varda, among others.

Gray opened the festival with a poignant speech that reflected on the current political turmoil in the U.S. “I’m an American...

Exclusive: The film At Eternity’s Gate isn’t a cradle-to-grave biopic, nor is it a forensic biographer of legendary artist Vincent van Gogh. Instead it’s a collection of scenes based on van Gogh’s letters, common agreement about events in his life that present as facts, hearsay, and moments that are just plain invented. In a new featurette, director/co-writer Julian Schnabel shares how this movie “was a form of painting” for him.

“I love making this movie…it’s my topic,” he said. “I get to say a lot of things about painting through Vincent that I’d like to hear Vincent say.”

The film goes on a journey inside the world and mind of a person who, despite skepticism, ridicule and illness, created some of the world’s most beloved and stunning works of art. Willem Dafoe plays the titular van Gogh and stars alongside Oscar Isaac,...

“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is on its way to a $63 million debut from 4,163 North American theaters.

The latest Wizarding World installment from Warner Bros. earned an estimated $25.7 million on Friday from North America with an additional $74.3 million internationally. If estimates hold, the sequel’s debut would come in behind its predecessor, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” which opened to $74 million domestically in 2016.

Eddie Redmayne returns as Newt Scamander, along with Ezra Miller, Katherine Waterston, and Dan Fogel. Jude Law, Zoe Kravitz, and Johnny Depp also star. David Yates returned to direct from J.K. Rowling’s script.

Reviews have been mixed, with the film sitting at an unfortunate 39% on Rotten Tomatoes and a B+ CinemaScore. That evidently hasn’t deterred moviegoers, however, and recent research found that the controversy surrounding Depp’s casting as Gellert Grindelwald despite his background of alleged domestic violence won’t put off Harry Potter fans either.

At Eternity’S Gate CBS Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Julian Schnabel Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Carriere, Louise Kugelberg, Julian Schnabel Cast: Willem Dafoe, Oscar Isaac, Mathieu Amalric, Mads Mikkelsen, Emmanuelle Seigner, Amira Casar, Niels Arestrup Screened at: Bryant Park Hotel, NYC, 11/10/18 Opens: November 16, 2018 What is the principal selling point made by real estate […]

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For this week’s review round-up, it’s a foursome! The quartet of titles today are a real mixed bag, which happens. We have two misfires, one mild recommendation, and a mixed bag that I really hemmed and hawed about in terms of a thumbs up or thumbs down. You’ll see which are which shortly, but the four films are the Vincent van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate, the horror hybrid The Clovehitch Killer, the science fiction tinged psychological drama Jonathan, and the documentary The Last Race. These movies are very different, to say the least. The only thing they have in common? Well, that would be that I’m about to discuss them all right now… Here we go: — At Eternity’s Gate At one early stage in the game, At Eternity’s Gate seemed like a potentially big Academy Award player. Some high profile film festival debuts,...

That dude could paint! There are biopics of artists that don’t ask more of an audience than that simple reaction. Not so with Julian Schnabel’s extraordinary At Eternity’s Gate, which features a monumental, career-best performance from Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh. It’s not that Schnabel doesn’t glory in the visions the Dutch painter put on canvas. But Schnabel, renowned as a painter in the way Van Gogh never was in life, wants to get inside the head of this tormented artist and make us see what he sees,...

Vincent Van Gogh died at 37; Willem Dafoe is 61. Despite that age gap, Dafoe portrays the seminal artist with a physical and spiritual power not unlike his transcendent portrayal of Jesus in “The Last Temptation of Christ.” It marks a career best, and could land him his second acting Oscar nomination in a row, after last year’s “The Florida Project.” (He was also nominated for supporting roles in “Platoon” and “Shadow of the Vampire.”)

“At Eternity’s Gate” director Julian Schnabel, who has been Dafoe’s friend for 30 years, dismissed the idea that the actor was too old for the role: He said Dafoe was in better shape now than Van Gogh was at his death.

“What he did is something I could not imagine,” Schnabel said at an intimate CBS Films awards brunch November 4, with a Q&A moderated by Guillermo Del Toro. “I didn’t want to make...

The CBS Films presentation at Deadline’s The Contenders was the most intimate of the day — and perhaps the most enlightening. The allotted time for CBS was devoted to a single film, At Eternity’s Gate, and the list of panel guests limited to one name: Willem Dafoe, the three-time Academy Award nominee who looks to be back in the trophy hunt with his screen portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.

At Eternity’s Gate, directed by Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) off a screenplay written by Schnabel, Louise Kugelberg and Jean-Claude Carrière, tries to connect with the spirit, art and persona of Van Gogh and it was filmed in Bouches-du-Rhône, Auvers-sur-Oise and other areas of France where the Dutch painter spent the final seasons of his life.

Interviewed by Deadline’s Pete Hammond, Dafoe spoke about the filming experience in tones of inspired wonder. The actor cited the vivid scenery of the locale,...

“There was a structure, but then there was also this looseness at the same time … It didn’t feel like a traditional movie,” said Willem Dafoe after his film “At Eternity’s Gate” was screened for press and industry at the New York Film Festival on Friday, October 12. He was joined by co-stars Oscar Isaac and Rupert Friend, director Julian Schnabel, and co-writers Jean-Claude Carriere and Louise Kugelberg for a press conference to discuss the film, which was the fest’s closing night selection. Watch the actors above, and scroll down to hear from the filmmakers below.

“Eternity’s Gate” takes place late in the life of painter Vincent Van Gogh (played by Dafoe), when he was ravaged by mental illness but supported by his loving brother Theo (Friend) and his colleague Paul Gauguin (Isaac). He was largely a pariah, lonely and poor, but he couldn’t conceive of a life without painting,...

At Eternity's Gate with Louise Kugelberg, Jean-Claude Carrière, Julian Schnabel, Willem Dafoe, Oscar Isaac, and Rupert Friend at the 56th New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, shot by Benoît Delhomme, co-written with Louise Kugelberg and Jean-Claude Carrière (seen in Margarethe von Trotta's Searching For Ingmar Bergman) and starring Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh, with Oscar Isaac as Gauguin, Rupert Friend as Theo, Mathieu Amalric as Dr. Gachet, Emmanuelle Seigner as Madame Ginoux, Anne Consigny as the Teacher, Mads Mikkelsen as the Priest, and Niels Arestrup as the Madman, is the Closing Night selection of the 56th New York Film Festival.

Willem Dafoe At Eternity's Gate press conference Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Mathieu Amalric emailed me from Belgium the morning after the première: "Impossible to leave Brussels. Shooting every single day in Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen mini-series for Arte". As Dr.

Willem Dafoe is the troubled painter, Vincent van Gogh, in the first trailer for CBS Films’ “At Eternity’s Gate,” and the resemblance is uncanny.

Directed by Julian Schnabel, the trailer follows van Gogh, who despite skepticism and illness, painted some of the world’s most famous works of art. The film is based on van Gogh’s letters and common agreement about what happened in his life — and some other scenes are purely fictional.

“What I see, nobody else sees,” van Gogh says in the trailer. When the townspeople ridicule the painter and don’t seem to understand the beauty of his work, van Gogh says, “maybe God made me a painter for people who aren’t born yet.”

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“At Eternity’s Gate” also stars Mads Mikkelsen, Emmanuelle Seigner, Oscar Isaac and Amira Casar.

Willem Dafoe brings tortured artist Vincent van Gogh to life in the first trailer for “At Eternity’s Gate.”

The trailer begins with a priest, played by Mads Mikkelsen, questioning van Gogh about why he has become a painter.

“Because I can’t do anything else and believe me, I’ve tried,” van Gogh replies in a voiceover.

The film, which is named after one of van Gogh’s paintings depicting an old man with his face in his hands, follows the last days of van Gogh, and chronicles both his breakthroughs in painting as well as his time spent in an asylum.

“I’ve spent all my life alone in a room,” van Gogh says in the trailer. “I’d like to find a new light, for paintings that we haven’t yet seen.”

The trailer also indicates that some of the scenes portray the way van Gogh saw the world,...

Fresh off of its premiere in Venice, the first trailer for Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate starring Willem Dafoe as the legendary painter Vincent van Gogh has been released.

With Schnabel’s distinct The Diving Bell and the Butterfly style, At Eternity’s Gate follows the life of van Gogh, but is not a traditional cradle-to-the-grave biopic. Written by Schnabel, Jean Claude Carrière, and Louise Kugelberg the film takes a journey into the mind of the artist who, despite skepticism, ridicule, and illness, created some of the world’s most beloved and stunning works of art.

As seen in the trailer above, the film, named after one of van Gogh’s famous paintings, also stars Mads Mikkelsen and Oscar Isaac as Schnabel stitches together a collection of scenes based on van Gogh’s letters, common agreement about events in his life that present as facts, hearsay, and moments that are invented.

Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate has been selected to screen as the closing night film at the 56th New York Film Festival on Oct. 14 at Alice Tully Hall, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today.

In Gate, artist-turned-filmmaker Schnabel takes a fresh look at the final days of another artist, Vincent van Gogh, who’s played by Willem Dafoe. The cast also includes Oscar Isaac, Rupert Friend, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner and Mads Mikkelsen.

Schnabel’s collaborators on the film include his co-screenwriters Jean-Claude Carriere and Louise Kugelberg, with Kugelberg also serving as editor, as well as ...

Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate has been selected to screen as the closing night film at the 56th New York Film Festival on Oct. 14 at Alice Tully Hall, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today.

In Gate, artist-turned-filmmaker Schnabel takes a fresh look at the final days of another artist, Vincent van Gogh, who’s played by Willem Dafoe. The cast also includes Oscar Isaac, Rupert Friend, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner and Mads Mikkelsen.

Schnabel’s collaborators on the film include his co-screenwriters Jean-Claude Carriere and Louise Kugelberg, with Kugelberg also serving as editor, as well as ...