'Late Fame' Director Kent Jones and Writer Samy Burch on Casting Willem Dafoe as a Forgotten Poet and Paying Homage to a Lost New York Art Scene:

'Late Fame' Director Kent Jones and Writer Samy Burch on Casting Willem Dafoe as a Forgotten Poet and Paying Homage to a Lost New York Art Scene: by Ellise Shafer

For Kent Jones and Samy Burch, nearly everything about making their new Venice-premiering drama, "Late Fame," was kismet. The two had never met before discussing the film " an adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's 1895 novella about a civil servant who suddenly gains acclaim for his past poetry from a group of up-and-coming writers " but […]

SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM on August 30, 2025

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