Silence of the Lambs heroine Clarice Starling is one of Jodie Foster's most iconic roles, but director Jonathan Demme ...

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 ...

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 ...

His best-known film is probably The Silence of the Lambs, which won several Oscars including one for Demme as best director. But he also made many other films including Philedelph ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Okay folks, this is pretty cool. At last year’s Austin Film Festival, Jonathan Demme and Paul Thomas Anderson sat down to discuss four of Demme’s films: “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Stop Making Sense, ...

Demme, who directed 36 feature films and documentaries over the course of his long and varied career, died this morning. He was a filmmaker... Forget the fava beans. The main reason Jonathan Demme's ...

Filmmaker Rebecca Eskreis pays tribute to the iconic director with her own tales of his "positive spirit, endless creativity and seemingly unlimited energy." By Rebecca Eskreis Rebecca Eskreis worked ...

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 ...