Cygnet Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Oscar winning Director, Jonathan Demme has passed away. He was best known for the films "Philadelphia," and the "The Silence of the Lambs." May he rest in peace. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/movies/jonathan-demme-dead-movie-director-oscar-winner.html?_r=0 Link to comment
sandik Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 A long and varied career, including the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense, which is one of my all-time favorite films. Link to comment
dirac Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Thanks for posting, Cygnet. Sorry to hear this. The Silence of the Lambs is a great example of a movie improving on pulpy material. I tend to like Demme’s early pictures with their goofball sensibility better -- Something Wild, Married to the Mob, and Melvin and Howard. I had mixed feelings about Philadelphia. (For one thing, there would have been activist lawyers lining up to take that guy’s case.) Link to comment
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