Part of Weekend Classics
Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning dark dive into the world of FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) and brilliant madman Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) was a cultural phenomenon and a remarkable blend of genre splatter and high-art refinement. The only worthy sequel to Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER: The Final Cut (plays Sep 30-Oct 4 in a new 4K restoration) and an emotionally complex experience for viewers, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS remains an American classic and set the tone for decades’ worth of subsequent thrillers.
“All sorts of macabre things have gone on, and are still going on just off screen, in Jonathan Demme's swift, witty new suspense thriller…. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is pop film making of a high order. It could well be the first big hit of the year.” —Vincent Caby, New York Times (Feb 14, 1991) “Delicious with foreboding, a masterly suspense thriller that toys with our anticipation like a well-fed cat…. It lurks about the exquisite edge of horror, before finally leaping into an unholy maw of bloody bones and self-awareness…. But mostly, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is just plain scary.” —Rita Kempley, Washington Post (Feb 14, 1991)
