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Late Fame
Directed by Kent Jones
At the very end of the 1970s, post office worker Ed Saxberger wrote a book of poetry that nobody cared about. After an eager and flattering fan appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of young admirers who anoint him a rediscovered genius. The group of downtown bohemians is led by their "tragic heroine," Gloria. Intoxicated by the attention, and Gloria's alluring presence, Saxberger gradually… From TMDB
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Late Fame is a 2026 drama film, directed by Kent Jones, starring Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee and Edmund Donovan.
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On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 94% based on 108 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website’s consensus reads: "A gentle rumination on art and authenticity, Late Fame's wistful narrative is made lively by Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee's wonderfully complementary performances." In the Wall Street Journal, Kyle Smith called the film "like a wonderful little poem. It’s also a touching nod to the past, gracefully intertwining aspects of Metropolitan and Dead Poets Society."
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60 of 110 · most liked firstSomeone asked which famous people were nice in real life; a good example is Willem Dafoe, who I pub-crawled around LA with back in 1999. He's in his element in Kent Jones' witty drama Late Fame, playing a 'man of letters' ie a postman who is also a poet. 4 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/10/15/l...
positive · AI labelView post →LATE FAME is beautiful: filmfreakcentral.net/2026/10/late...
positive · AI labelView post →LATE FAME (2025) Streaming: October 6, 2025 VOD/Digital (Apple, Amazon, Fandango, etc.) #LateFame whentostream.com/willem-dafoe...
neutral · AI labelView post →Review of the Week: Late Fame ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Willem Dafoe is outstanding as a minor poet rediscovered, feted – and ultimately intoxicated – by an admiring group of hipsters in Kent Jones’s new film, writes Hanna Flint www.thenerve.news/p/review-lat...
positive · AI labelView post →Academy Award-nominated actor Willem Dafoe joins Morning Joe to discuss his latest film “Late Fame,” in theaters now. Dafoe plays Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet working in a post office until a young fan attempts to revitalize his work.
neutral · AI labelView post →Two films about writers. Willem Dafoe in Late Fame plays a long-forgotten blue-collar poet adopted by wealthy Donna Tartt types. A rare American film about class. Tony is a film about Anthony Bourdain as a young man; it made me sad.
positive · AI labelView post →Kent Jones's film Late Fame is playing in NYC w/ wider distro soon. It's based on the novella by Arthur Schnitzler, which had its own late fame as it was only discovered in 2014! The film transposes the setting from fin-de-siècle Vienna to today's Greenwich Village, but otherwise follows closely.
neutral · AI labelView post →How about this for a Sunday at the Chicago Critics Film Festival? Next week, May 3 at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social 11:30 AM - You Had To Be There 1:45 PM - Shorts Program #2 4:15 PM - Maddie's Secret 6:30 PM - Late Fame 8:45 PM - A.I. (in 35mm) TICKETS: www.musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-f...
neutral · AI labelView post →First part of my MSPIFF coverage is live! So far the docs are killing it and I especially encourage people to check out EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET. Narratively, I quite enjoyed LATE FAME and CAROLINA CAROLINE @themaincinema.bsky.social kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2026/04/mspi...
positive · AI labelView post →Saw a tiny indie movie my wife worked on, Late Fame starring Willen Dafoe, and I really liked it! Funny satire of the siren call of fame, the cost of art, and the pain on being regarded as a relic in your time. Worth your while!!
positive · AI labelView post →It would make a rather good double bill with another melancholic, funny New York literary film, Can You Ever Forgive Me? I enjoyed Late Fame, I recommend it to anyone. Watching Dafoe in a lead role as a normal person, as good as anything cinema can offer.
positive · AI labelView post →Willem Dafoe shines as a poet who gets rediscovered by a group of callow young men. My LATE FAME review.
positive · AI labelView post →I had not heard of Arthur Schnitzler's 1895 novella "Late Fame" until I read about the new movie based on it. Terrific book; a satire of small dreams, and the melancholy of writers. Looking forward to the Willem Dafoe movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM Watch or (Rewatch) the fantastic film "Late Fame" (2025) - Dir. Kent Jones; Written by Samy Burch, based on the novella by Arthur Schnitzler. Featuring: Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, Edmund Donovan, & Clark Johnson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycil...
neutral · AI labelView post →“The film, for a time, becomes an insightful two-hander between this older man hesitating on the doorstep of his second chance and this not-quite-young-any-more woman running on the fumes of her first” @jessicakiang.bsky.social reviews Kent Jones’s Late Fame www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
neutral · AI labelView post →Is LATE FAME 📽️ a perfect movie? No. Thanks to the astonishing central performances of Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee, does that matter? Not a whit movieswetextedabout.com/star-power-m...
positive · AI labelView post →I was underwhelmed by Late Fame, a fitfully amusing literary satire that yields a great Willem Dafoe performance and surrounds it with half-baked caricatures.
negative · AI labelView post →Based on a novella by Arthur Schnitzler, Kent Jones’s film “Late Fame” exemplifies the purchasable poetics of a new class of wealthy influencers masquerading as urbane sophisticates. The result is a limp satire unworthy of the text that inspired it.
negative · AI labelView post →Podcast Review: @jdduran.bsky.social is joined by @jdiedenhofer.bsky.social to discuss the Kent Jones film LATE FAME! Watch: youtu.be/WBmr5FFJTxI Listen: linktr.ee/insessionfilm
neutral · AI labelView post →This new film ‘Late Fame’, about a man who wrote poetry when younger is ‘rediscovered’ 50 years later. It looks amazing. And, Willem Dafoe. youtu.be/ycilEzCB3u4?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Love seeing our agency client Shauna Kelly discussing her book, "I've Got the Shakes: Performing Richard Foreman." An essential theater book. One actor interviewed in her oral history is Willem Dafoe, who gives a great performance in the current film Late Fame. #BookSky youtu.be/qgIfeOU0j4A?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Mabel and Madeleine read Arthur Schnitzler's Late Fame, watch Kent Jones's movie, and discuss both on the Mandylion podcast for all literature (and things) 18th century.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieReview #LateFame 🍿🍿🍿1/2 (Out of 5) Wonderful Performances In A Story That Didn’t Seem To Have A Satisfying Ending Directed by Kent Jones who took a screenplay by Samy Burch (Based on the book ‘Late Fame’ by Arthur Schnitzler) and gave us a film the was slightly more... Review: boxd.it/g06gwd
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved LATE FAME, a film about how being an artist means putting in the work to express yourself, not creating for the attention it brings you. Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee are fantastic in it. My review: www.deepfocusreview.com/reviews/late... #FilmSky #MovieSky #FilmCommunity #MovieCommunity
positive · AI labelView post →Definitely want to read this book before I see the movie “Late Fame.” #fridayreads #BookSky💙 #books #booksmatter #booksky #writingmatters bookshop.org/a/98146/9781...
neutral · AI labelView post →Sunday schedule at the Chicago Critics Film Festival @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social @chicagocritics.bsky.social 11:30 AM - You Had To Be There 1:45 PM - Shorts Program 2 4:15 PM - Maddie's Secret 6:30 PM - Late Fame 8:45 PM - Steven Spielberg's A.I. (in 35mm) www.musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-f...
neutral · AI labelView post →Reviews are in from the Venice premiere of Kent Jones’ Late Fame starring Willem Dafoe & Greta Lee. www.metacritic.com/movie/late-f... “It’s a lovely slice of life, a heartfelt New York story.” - Xan Brooks, The Guardian
neutral · AI labelView post →Late Fame by Arthur Schnitzler #recentbook Written in/about Vienna in 1895, recently adapted into a movie set in NYC, two places I know very well. Took in book/movie all in the last couple days. Both fine, preferred the book. Schnitzler has a wonderful way of not wasting the reader's time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Got a chance to see the movie "Late Fame" which stars Willem Dafoe. Highly recommend. It will make you laugh and also want to live an authentic life and write poems
positive · AI labelView post →LATE FAME: Willem Dafoe is at his very best in this film about an artist never recognized for their own greatness. Even as the film doesn't fully rise to his level, just watching him work & bring a gentle melancholy to the proceedings is still good stuff📽️ My review: www.inlander.com/screen/late-...
positive · AI labelView post →Great interview with Kent Jones about his new film with Willem Dafoe, LATE FAME (via @thefilmstage.com)
neutral · AI labelView post →LATE FAME premieres August 21–27 at The Brattle. Check out the @bostonglobe.com article, then head over to brattlefilm.org for showtimes & tickets. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/06/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →GFF2026 Review: Late Fame intheirownleague.com/2026/03/02/g... - #WillemDafoe and #GretaLee together in a film? We're intrigued! Find out more at the League hot from GFF2026! #filmfestival #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of Kent Jones’s Late Fame, a slight, flawed film that has nonetheless stayed with me #Venice2025
neutral · AI labelView post →They made a film of Late Fame?! With Greta Lee?!? And WILLEM DAFOE?!! Nobody tells me *anything*
neutral · AI labelView post →Late Fame – Screening on September 25, 27-30! 5 Stars! “a masterpiece…Dafoe delivers career-defining work here” (Hey U Guys) 4/4 Stars! “one of the year’s most essential films…an extraordinary performance by Dafoe.” (Deep Focus Review) mayfairtheatre.ca/movie/late-f...
neutral · AI labelView post →Late Fame, the new Willem Dafoe film, was written by Samy Burch, whose other two major credits are May December and Coyote Vs Acme (!)
neutral · AI labelView post →LATE FAME director Kent Jones returns to Film Forum tomorrow (Sep 2) for a post-film conversation with FF’s Bruce Goldstein, following its 6:50pm show. “A tantalizing character study. The movie abounds in exquisite grace notes." Sheri Linden, @thr.com buff.ly/GaCkpDi
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieReview #LateFame 🍿🍿🍿1/2 (Out of 5) Wonderful Performances In A Story That Didn’t Seem To Have A Satisfying Ending Directed by Kent Jones who took a screenplay by Samy Burch (Based on the book ‘Late Fame’ by Arthur Schnitzler) and gave us a film the was slightly more... Review: boxd.it/g06gwd
neutral · AI labelView post →@BrattleTheatre.bsky.social opens LATE FAME and TRAIN TO BUSAN; @SomervilleTheatre.bsky.social celebrates Catherine O'Hara and plays doc BURNIN' DOWN THE HOUSE; the Harvard Film Archive reopens with a (mostly) #35mm Graham Greene series, Lonely Seal returns to the Regent, more!
neutral · AI labelView post →I chatted with #GretaLee about her late fame and starring in Kent Jones-directed "Late Fame" film for @sfchronicle.com plus insight from #WillemDafoe and #KentJones and additional reporting by G. Allen Johnson. Thanks to editor Mariecar for everything! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
neutral · AI labelView post →This coming Friday, August 14, I'll be moderating a post-screening discussion with Kent Jones, director of the lovely LATE FAME along with others who worked on the film. The film screens at 7.30.p.m. at The Royal in Santa Monica. Join us!
neutral · AI labelView post →David Stewart on director Kent Jones' reverential cinematic love letter to creativity and New York City, "Late Fame." The film explores aging, ego, and New York’s literary ghosts in a wry, performance-driven drama led by #WillemDafoe. artsfuse.org/328259/film-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed LATE FAME, which gives Willem Dafoe his best role since THE FLORIDA PROJECT. It screens tomorrow night at the Brattle as part of the Independent Film Festival Boston.
positive · AI labelView post →Director Kent Jones discusses his latest film LATE FAME, starring Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee Read more: www.chicagocriticsfilmfestival.com/spotlight/ke... LATE FAME screens Sunday, May 3rd at 6:30pm
neutral · AI labelView post →vimooz.me/m57aqq | The 69th San Francisco International Film Festival, taking place from April 24 to May 4, 2026, unveiled its lineup. The festival opens with a double feature of Kent Jones’ Late Fame starring Greta Lee and Willem Dafoe, and The Invite, directed by and starring Olivia Wilde.
neutral · AI labelView post →GFF2026 Review: Late Fame intheirownleague.com/2026/03/02/g... -We're so excited to be covering the #glasgowfilmfestival don't miss a thing here at the League!
neutral · AI labelView post →Thoughts from @suddenlyquiet.bsky.social on Hong Sang Soo's WHAT DOES NATURE MEAN TO YOU, Kent Jones LATE FAME and the value of art #nyff www.unseenfilms.net/2025/09/what...
neutral · AI labelView post →An important critic and New York programmer for decades, American Kent Jones presents his second fiction Late Fame at Orizzonti2025 for mk2. With an overly simplistic script, low-budget production and stilted acting, the film only really touches in the final scenes – hard to say no to him too.
negative · AI labelView post →I wrote a film review for Kent Jones' indie drama Late Fame (2026) starring Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, & Edmund Donovan. boxd.it/gSodUN
positive · AI labelView post →It occurs to me that this film, about a poet at the beginning of his career, would make a nice double bill with Late Fame.
neutral · AI labelView post →This week, LATE FAME director Kent Jones invites you to ride along with him through the recesses of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 thriller THE PASSENGER. Available wherever you find your podcasts, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/ken...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Late Fame," "American Doctor," "The Marching Band," and a film festival wrap-up and preview, all in Movies with Meaning, at www.thegoodradionetwork.com/movies-with-.... #BrentMarchant #LateFame #AmericanDoctor #TheMarchingBand #ReelingFilmFestival #ChiFilmFest
neutral · AI labelView post →We're screening LATE FAME starring Willem Dafoe & Greta Lee Oct. 6 at Newton's New State Cinema and Oct. 7 & 8 at the Carolina Theater in Hickory. Members are free, guests are $7 at the door. Come join us!
neutral · AI labelView post →I really enjoyed Late Fame, starring Willem Dafoe as an older poet rediscovered and feted by a new crowd of young admirers. Several more screening at Edinburgh's Filmhouse (@filmhouseedinburgh.bluesky.social) this week www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/late-f...
positive · AI labelView post →New on ye olde blog: "Ithaca Film Journal: 9/3/26." Local theatrical highlights include LATE FAME at Cinemapolis + an embarrassment of repertory riches highlighted by THE SEARCHERS, and my latest "home video" recommendation is COSMIC PRINCESS KAGUYA! prodigalcinephile.com/2026/09/03/i...
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved ‘Late Fame’ too; and it was a pleasure to see it, with self-reflexive laughter, at Film Forum a few weeks ago.
positive · AI labelView post →Late Fame with Willem Dafoe is not a film that, like, inspired me to lock in and work on my art. lol
negative · AI labelView post →"An incredible critique of the 'radical' rejection of modernity by those with the privilege to do so." @ashhatz.bsky.social's review of the film "Late Fame" is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/08/21/l...
neutral · AI labelView post →New @cityweekly.bsky.social reviews of this week's theatrical releases: TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA; TONY; THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE; MOUSE; UNION COUNTY; LATE FAME. www.cityweekly.net/film/film-re...
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