“You must have been beautiful when you were young,” Greta Lee says to Willem Dafoe at one point in Kent Jones’s Late Fame , and for those of us who well remember the actor’s younger years — back when his skin was porcelain, his cheekbones sea-cliff sharp, and his eyes so angelically haunted — it’s hard not to shout “Amen!” back at the screen. First, the line hits because it works within the context of the film: Ed Saxburger (Dafoe) is a postal worker who in his youth published a well-regarded but little-read book of poems, and he’s in the midst of fondly (and melancholically) recalling all the promise of those early years in New York, when poetry was in the air, “downtown was another world, and Soho was like being on the moon.” But it also helps the movie reach beyond the screen; some

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