“It was a long, drawn-out fight”: the Jonathan Demme movie where the “shit hit the fan”
Filmmaker Jonathan Demme talks about directing Swing Shift.
Jonathan Demme
Paul Thomas Anderson on the director who showed his dream was “within reach”
“He didn’t over shazam it, but he put some spit on it too.”
“He had some nerve using that”: the movie that left Martin Scorsese cringing
An uncomfortable moment for the icon.
‘Silence of the Lambs’: The horror movie Mark Mylod calls “cinematic perfection”
“The bravura of the filmmaking and the attention to the detail.”
The “fortunate accidents” that helped Jonathan Demme become a director
It worked out very well for him in the end.
The best piece of advice Jonathan Demme was ever given: “From a fortune-teller”
“Maybe I’ll wait 24 hours in light of what the fortune-teller said…”
Jonathan Demme’s favourite line of cinematic dialogue came from a very unlikely place
An unusual pick, to say the least.