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...frequent art houses, we speak of Joel and Ethan Coen, Alexander Payne, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuaron, Gurinder Chadha, Olivier Assayas, Walter Salles, Sylvain Chomet and Tom Tykwer.) Wouldn't it to lovely to bathe briefly in the radiance of Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Sergio Castellito, Willem Dafoe, Ben Gazzara, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Emily Mortimer, Nick Nolte, Natalie Portman, Miranda Richardson, Gena Rowlands, Ludivine Sagnier, Rufus Sewell and Leonor Watling...
...Iraqistanies?” and “I’m not going out there, G-darnit!” Stanton, who is played by Quaid as borderline retarded, is manipulated by the evil Chief of Staff/Vice-President and Dick Cheney look alike Sutter (played with aplomb by Willem Dafoe). He is so in control of the President that he tells him everything he must say through a small earpiece. The President questions what Sutter and his administration have told him when he wakes up one morning and decides for the first time ever, to read the newspaper. Saying...
...United States President (Quaid)—a dense Texan who reads the newspaper for the first time after his re-election—is startled to discover the terrors of the world. After holing himself in his room for several weeks, his chief-of-staff (an unrecognizable Willem Defoe, “Spider-Man”) books him to be a guest judge on the most popular show on the air, “American Dreamz.” The show, a more fantastical version of “American Idol,” is dominated by one self...
...kicking. 2. Every time someone drops the F-Bomb. Take two shots if someone drops it more than 8 times in one sentence. Go ahead, count. 3. When you hear the baptism reference while the brothers are in prison. Actually, take six shots, you dirty heathen. 4. Every time Willem Dafoe, playing a cop, reminds you of a J. Crew model that’s been run through a trash compactor. 5. Every time Dafoe mocks someone by assuming a false accent. 6. Every time Dafoe does his police work with loud, melodramatic classical music in the background. 7. Every...
...show juxtaposes famous works with obscure ones, pairs young artists with old, mixes its media and otherwise turns the Pompidou collection on its head. Take, for example, the first room, devoted to the subtheme "disillusioned body," catalog-speak for the deconstruction of the human form. Here Willem de Kooning's grotesque 1972 sculpture The Clamdigger is accompanied by Alberto Giacometti's spare Standing Woman II (1959-60), Pablo Picasso's contorted Women Before the Sea (1956) and Francis Bacon's bizarre 1964 triptych Three Figures in a Room?all demonstrating just how discombobulated a body can be. Around the corner...