It is very sad news to report that great filmmaker Jonathan Demme has died from complications of esophageal cancer. He was 73. David Byrne posted a tribute to Demme on his website that recalls the ...

Los Angeles – Directors Guild of America President Paris Barclay made the following statement upon learning of the passing of Jonathan Demme: “Losing iconic director Jonathan Demme – a consummate ...

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 ...

The Silence of the Lambs was one of the greatest films of the 1990s, and to scratch a similar itch, you may want to check out ...

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 ...

How long does it take to convincingly depict two people falling in love on screen? In director Jonathan Demme‘s 1988 comedy “Married to the Mob,” it happens in less than two minutes, as Demme utilizes ...

More than three decades after its release, The Silence of the Lambs continues to occupy a unique place in popular culture. It is a crime thriller, a psychological horror film, and, at the same time, a ...

One of Jonathan Demme’s underseen but pivotal nonfiction films is coming to high-definition home video for the very first time. “Swimming to Cambodia,” a condensed version of Spalding Gray’s two-night ...

Anne Hathaway makes a compelling bad girl in Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married. Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered may not be reassured by ...

It just doesn’t seem to be going right for Jonathan Demme recently. He had been working on an adaptation of Stephen King’s “11/22/63” alongside the author, but that fell apart last December with King ...