Signing on to play Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate was a no-brainer for Willem Dafoe.Friends with director Julian Schnabel for 30 years, Dafoe figured that “the idea of a great painter ...

Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s "At Eternity's Gate." (Courtesy Lily Gavin) The life and legend of Vincent van Gogh have been so immortalized and over-chronicled I’d bet ...

The short, brilliant, tragic life of Vincent Van Gogh has long been a ... able to speak to different sides of Van Gogh's life and legacy. At Eternity's Gate allows its portrait to be a bit uglier ...

Willem Dafoe plays painter Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate, but director Julian Schnabel describes the performance as more than just another role for Dafoe. "He became something else ...

Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh in “At Eternity’s Gate.” | CBS Films Share Seeing as how Vincent van Gogh died at 37 and Willem Dafoe is 63, it’s a pretty impressive trick for Dafoe to ...

Vincent Van Gogh died at 37; Willem Dafoe is 61 ... roles in “Platoon” and “Shadow of the Vampire.”) “At Eternity’s Gate” director Julian Schnabel, who has been Dafoe’s friend ...

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 ...

With “At Eternity’s Gate,” painter/director Julian Schnabel uses Vincent Van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) as a vessel to explore the process of painting as a snapshot in time, shared with the viewer.

In Schnabel’s “At Eternity’s Gate,” van Gogh is played by look-alike Willem Dafoe, who also provides voice-overs. In opening scenes in which a lot of French people speak English ...

Oscar-nominated actor Willem Dafoe steps into the role of the iconic Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in the new film 'At Eternity's Gate' due out in November. By Patrick Shanley Willem Dafoe puts ...