Jonathan Demme
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Something Wild

The Silence of the Lambs

Stop Making Sense

The Manchurian Candidate

Married to the Mob

The Silence of the Lambs
No matter how many times I see The Silence of the Lambs, it is engrossing from start to finish. Anthony Hopkins’s Hannibal Lecter is unforgettable, but only as a foil for Jodie Foster’s much more sober Clarice Starling, without whom Lecter would be little more than a cartoon. Countless imitators tried and failed to replicate that magic, including Lambs’ two sequels. The leads anchor the film, and everything else falls into place around them.
