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 ...

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 ...

*Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme, best known for helming 1991’s “the Silence of the Lambs” and the Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks film “Philadelphia,” has died of cancer complications, his ...

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 ...

The world has long needed a memoir from Abel Ferrara, and now we’ve got one, along with smart studies of the lives and careers of Clint Eastwood, Jonathan Demme, and Ed Wood. Plus, a stunning ...

The Silence of the Lambs is an unforgettable film within the psychological horror canon, but the subject matter proved too revolting for some. In 2016, just a year before his death, director Jonathan ...

You know, Hollywood is packed with wild casting tales, but the story of Sean Connery nearly playing Dr. Hannibal Lecter in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is one for the books. Before Anthony Hopkins ...

Paul Thomas Anderson (r) with Daniel Day-Lewis on the set of Phantom Thread With eight Academy Award nominations, and countless other plaudits to his name, Paul Thomas Anderson has had his fair share ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan Demme, the eclectic, ever-enthusiastic filmmaker behind the Oscar winners “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Philadelphia,” and the director of one of the most seminal concert ...