‘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: ‘It’s a World That Was There, and Then It Was Gone’

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 […]