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Jonathan Demme Was a Director Whose Films Were Defined by Intimacy

I was 17 when I watched The Silence of the Lambs for the first time. I sat alone in my room, late at night, totally enraptured, terrified by the film's immediacy and building dread and in awe at the ...
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New Jonathan Demme biography spotlights director's clashes with powerful stars — and his humanity

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David M. Stewart's biography of Jonathan Demme, shown during his promotional tour for "Something Wild," spotlights the filmmaker's ...
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Jonathan Demme, Director of 'Silence of The Lambs,' Dies at 73

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Los Angeles Times

Filmmaker Jonathan Demme possessed a rock ‘n’ roll spirit

For good reason, several of pop music’s greatest visionaries — Neil Young, David Byrne, Bruce Springsteen, the Pretenders — turned to filmmaker Jonathan Demme when they wanted to put their work on a ...
CNN

How Demme showed us America’s nightmare

Editor’s Note: Gene Seymour is a film critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. The opinions expressed in ...
Los Angeles Times

The nine Jonathan Demme films every movie lover must see

To look at the filmography of Jonathan Demme is to see a man who refused to be pinned down by genre or expectations. With a career that spanned more than 40 years, Demme made a name for himself with ...
The Washington Post

Demme and Young's Concerted Effort

Jonathan Demme is fond of using the phrase "dream concert" when talking about "Neil Young: Heart of Gold" (see review on Page 31), but it's not always clear whether the director is referring to his ...
Capital Public Radio

Jonathan Demme And The Simple Power Of The Close-Up

The main reason Jonathan Demme's Oscar-winning 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs gets its hooks in you — and leaves you feeling vaguely distracted and discomfited long after it's over — isn't ...
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Jonathan Demme Created an Iconic Horror Movie Moment With “Goodbye Horses”

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...
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New Jonathan Demme biography spotlights director's clashes with powerful stars — and his humanity

Before he set his sights on Hollywood, Jonathan Demme studied to become a vet. Movies may have mesmerized him since childhood, but animals were his "parallel obsession," writes film journalist David M ...
Variety

Jonathan Demme, ‘Silence of the Lambs’ Director, Dies at 73

Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme died Wednesday in New York of cancer complications, his publicist told Variety. He was 73 years old. Demme is best known for directing “The Silence of the Lambs,” ...