Muse Magazine 53 Art Cover
In conversation with Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel's first film, "Basquiat", was released in the summer of 1996. In it, Willem Dafoe plats a minor role as a struggling electrician who un-coincidentally harbors dreams of becoming a famous artist. The opening line of the movie is a voiceover by Rene Ricard "everybody wants to get on the Van Gogh boat". So then what should we make of the fact that twenty-two years later the very same Willem Dafoe stars as Van Gogh in "At Eternity's Gate", the latest film by Julian Schnabel? "You make things that haven't been made in order to see the things you've already made" is the artist/director's somewhat cryptic response.