Jonathan Demme
Creator archive / 7 posts
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.