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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jonathan Demme—the versatile director behind such films as Silence of the Lambs, Something Wild, and the Talking Heads documentary Stop Making Sense— died Wednesday morning in New York, following a ...

After star turns in a string of movies including The Social Network, Inside Llewyn Davis, Friends With Benefits, and Runner Runner, Justin Timberlake basically abandoned Hollywood and went back to his ...

Though best known for his Oscar-winning work in horrific thriller The Silence of the Lambs, director Jonathan Demme also champions low-budget non-fiction films. For him, directing Spalding Gray's ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jonathan Demme, the eclectic movie director whose work ranged from thrillers like "The Silence of the Lambs" to documentaries on leading musicians, died early on Wednesday of ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- 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 films ...