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Willem Dafoe

October 2024

  • Willem Dafoe walks the Miu Miu catwalk in navy jumper and unbuckled boots

    Male midlife makeovers steal the spotlight at Paris womenswear shows

    Fashion rebrands for Daniel Craig in haphazard jumper and Willem Dafoe on the Miu Miu catwalk

June 2024

  • This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone, foreground left, and Jesse Plemons in a scene from "Kinds of Kindness." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Kinds of Kindness review – Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for overlong but admirable triptych

    Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe head the cast in the Poor Things director’s odd three-part study of control whose central idea proves elusive

May 2024

  • Actor Emma Stone, director Yorgos Lanthimos and actor Jesse Plemons in a photocall for the film Kinds Of Kindness at the Cannes Film Festival, May 2024.

    Sex, rape, cannibals: what Yorgos Lanthimos did after Poor Things

  • Still from Kinds of Kindness, with close-ups of (left to right) Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Kinds of Kindness review – sex, death and Emma Stone in Lanthimos’s disturbing triptych

March 2024

  • Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe in Kinds of Kindness.

    Kinds of Kindness: first trailer released for Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s next film

    Lanthimos’s latest film also stars Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Poor Things’s Willem Dafoe

January 2024

  • Willem Dafoe shot for Observer magazine in London

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

  • Emma Stone in Victorian-era period dress

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Poor Things review – Emma Stone transfixes in Yorgos Lanthimos’s thrilling carnival of oddness

  • Willem Dafoe shot for OM

    High kicks and high heels: Poor Things star Willem Dafoe – in pictures

  • ‘I don’t know how funny I was as a kid’ … Ramy Youssef.

    The G2 interview
    ‘No one knew what to do with me’: Ramy Youssef on privilege, fear and his friend Taylor Swift

  • ‘I’m never bored’: Willem Dafoe on art, yoga – and alpacas

  • 2024 culture preview
    From Megalopolis to Joker 2: the 2024 films Guardian writers are most excited about

December 2023

  • Yorgos Lanthimos

    ‘My films are all problematic children’: director Yorgos Lanthimos on Poor Things, shame and his creative soulmate Emma Stone

  • Emma Stone in Poor Things.

    Best movies US 2023
    Best movies of 2023 in the US: No 7 – Poor Things

September 2023

  • Willem Dafoe and Camila Morrone in Gonzo Girl

    First look review
    Gonzo Girl review – Patricia Arquette’s directorial debut is a disappointment

    The actor makes an underwhelming first feature as film-maker, a thinly etched adaptation of Cheryl Della Pietra’s semi-autobiographical book
  • Lily James as Josephine Esperanto in Finally Dawn.

    Finally Dawn review – Lily James shines in exuberant romantic melodrama

    James is the Liz Taylor-ish diva claiming a young star-struck girl as her new best friend in Saverio Constanzo’s tale set in 1950s Rome
  • A grand tour of sensual indulgence and adventure… Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Poor Things review – Emma Stone has a sexual adventure in Yorgos Lanthimos’s virtuoso comic epic

    Stone gives a hilarious, beyond-next-level performance as Bella Baxter, the experimental subject of a troubled Victorian anatomist, in Lanthimos’s toweringly bizarre comedy

February 2023

  • Willem Dafoe in Inside, directed by Vasilis Katsoupis

    Inside review – Willem Dafoe’s thief suffers for his art

    Dafoe excels as an art thief trapped inside a super-rich art collector’s apartment in this claustrophobic fiction feature debut from Vasilis Katsoupis

May 2022

  • 2002, SPIDER-MAN<br>TOBEY MAGUIRE Character(s): Spider-Man Film 'SPIDER-MAN; SPIDERMAN' (2002) Directed By SAM RAIMI 30 April 2002 CTK33742 Allstar/MARVEL\COLUMBIA PICTURES (USA 2002) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MARVEL\COLUMBIA PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MARVEL\COLUMBIA PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Spider-Man at 20: the superhero film that changed blockbuster cinema

    Sam Raimi’s charming, if patchy, 2002 adventure showed that mass audiences were eager for a new kind of superhero and the industry never looked back

March 2022

  • Basically supercharged … Cate Blanchett, left, and Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley.

    Best picture Oscar hustings
    Why Nightmare Alley should win the best picture Oscar

  • RIVER - film still - for press use only - Région Amazonas : Fleuve Orénoque et forêt amazonienne près de La Esmeralda

    ‘Rivers run through us’: Willem Dafoe and Robert Macfarlane on why they made a film of the world’s great waterways

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