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	Jonathan Demme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944, in Baldwin, New York) is an American film director, producer and writer.
		Demme won the Academy Award for Directing for The Silence of the Lambs in 1991.
		Jonathan Demme was the uncle to director Ted Demme, who died in 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonathan_Demme (130 words)

	Directors---Jonathan Demme
		Jonathan Demme emerged from the halcyon days of low-budget genre filmmaking—he began as a member of Roger Corman's stable of writers in the 1970s—to become one of Hollywood's most critically admired directors in the 80s and 90s.
		Demme enhanced his reputation with a series of lyrical sketches on rural Americana but is now best known for his fast-paced, hip, urban style.
		Demme tried to focus on female camaraderie and endurance in the face of domineering male employers; Hawn chose to dwell on the doomed love affair between a married woman and her supervisor.
	umer.fanspace.com /demme.html (1019 words)

	Storefront Demme - KAEL ON DEMME: REVIEWS
		Jonathan Demme directed, in a soft, subdued style - the film is lyrical and wiggy at the same time.
		Demme and Goldman have entered into the soul of American blue-collar suckerdom; they have taken for their hero a chucklehead who is hooked on TV game shows, and they have made us understand how it was that when something big - something legendary - touched his life, nobody could believe it.
		Swimming to Cambodia (1987) - Jonathan Demme directed this concert film of Spalding Gray's stage performance; it was shot before live audiences during three consecutive evenings (and one day) in November 1986, at the Performing Garage, in lower Manhattan.
	www.storefrontdemme.com /kaelreviews.html (1561 words)

	Jonathan Demme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jonathan Demme proved to be that rare maverick filmmaker who managed to find a place for his talents within the Hollywood system while still making movies his own way and on his own terms.
		Demme's original career goal was to become a veterinarian, and, after working at animal clinics as a teenager, he enrolled at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
		Demme wanted the picture to deal primarily with working women embracing their new freedoms during wartime, but leading lady Goldie Hawn felt the film should focus on her character's relationship with a musician (played by Kurt Russell) while her husband was at war.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+87470 (926 words)

	Start Making Sense - An Interview with Jonathan Demme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jonathan Demme has ancestors that trace back to Alsace Lorraine, and his films are pure Americana.
		DEMME: A concert film may intend, like The Last Waltz did so effectively, to give you a sense of what it was like to be at an event, the focal point of which was the music.
		DEMME: We talked about duplicating the Pantages stage on a film soundstage in order to do more complicated shots, but the band got nervous because the sense of feedback from the audience is so much a part of their work that they were doubtful about doing their best without one.
	www.disinfotainmenttoday.com /emulsionalproblems/startmakingsense.htm (1619 words)

	Jonathan Demme
		Demme has acknowledged Corman as a significant teacher and mentor, and the sense in their relationship of strong familial bonding – of one good turn begetting another – is a key to the director's presentation of a complex, multicultural American landscape.
		Demme's finally too talented a filmmaker for Philadelphia to slip and splat on the guilty-liberal banana peel and, considering the times and events surrounding the film, it's tempting to view the proceedings as a shaky bridge over troubled waters (13).
		For Jonathan Demme, movies are the medium of address, the means by which he explores and comments on the world surrounding, the way in which he answers the muse's clarion call to create.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/04/demme.html (5661 words)

	MovieMaker Magazine \| Issue #48 \| The Truth About Jonathan Demme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Demme’s own story of how he “fell backwards into this business” is a gem not to be skipped over.
		Not surprisingly, Jonathan Demme has encountered his share of setbacks over the years, including the 1984 release Swing Shift, a film which was disastrously retooled by the studio.
		Jonathan Demme (JD): I had finished Beloved and was working on a couple of scripts, and we screened Charade at the office one night for fun.
	www.moviemaker.com /issues/48/demme.html (3213 words)

	The Biography Channel - Jonathan Demme Biography
		Demme's mother was an actress, and his father worked in public relations.
		Levine was impressed with the young man's writing and, after a stint in the military, Demme was given a job as a publicist in the producer's organization.
		Demme followed this success with the AIDS drama, 'Philadelphia', another blockbuster, and an adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel, 'Beloved'.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/361:0/Jonathan_Demme.htm (412 words)

	Ted Demme Biography At DVDwolf.com
		Ted Demme, thanks to his uncle's (Jonathan Demme - Silence of the Lambs) more famous name, always seemed to receive the pat-on-the-head treatment from the critics, as if his work should apologize for not being as serious as Jonathan's.
		Demme continued working, returning to TV to work on some episodes of Robert Altman's Gun, one that garnered a cult following.
		In 1999 Demme came to Television on yet another 'different' kind of show, one that would last even less time than Robert Altman's Gun series but would go down as the turning point for critics in Demme's life.
	www.dvdwolf.com /templates/dsp_bio.php?u_peopleid=48697#biography (640 words)

	Jonathan Demme
		Jonathan Demme was born in New York, but moved to Florida with his family when he was young.
		In addition to producing, writing and directing, Demme has appeared in several films as an actor, including The Incredible Melting Man (1977) and That Thing You Do (1996), written and directed by Tom Hanks (who also starred in the flick) and produced by Demme.
		Demme is married to Joanne Howard, his second wife, with whom he has three children.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2391 (348 words)

	IGN: Spotlight on Jonathan Demme
		July 20, 2004 - Oscar-winner Jonathan Demme's latest release is a remake of the classic 1962 political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate.
		Demme was then employed as a unit publicist by B-movie maven Roger Corman who eventually let him script the biker flick Angels Hard as They Come.
		Demme, however, reportedly clashed with his leading lady, Goldie Hawn, and the film flopped.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/530/530780p1.html (583 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| The Robyn Hitchcock hour
		Jonathan Demme's mesmerizing documentary "Storefront Hitchcock" brings an unlikely pop singer to the silver screen.
		Though Demme's 1984 concert film of the Talking Heads, "Stop Making Sense," succeeded by capturing a world-class rock act in its ebullient prime, Robyn Hitchcock isn't a world-class rock act -- his demeanor is too modest for that, and his songs too lyrically gnarled for mass consumption.
		Demme approached Hitchcock about the idea for a film after seeing one of his concerts during the 1996 "Moss Elixer" tour.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/reviews/1998/11/25reviewc.html (1044 words)

	Salon Media \| Will Hannibal the Cannibal eat Hollywood?
		With director Jonathan Demme out and Jodie Foster in limbo, the long-awaited sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs" is in deep trouble.
		The other is that, "upon reflection," he decided that having created a minor masterpiece with the first movie, he didn't feel the need to try to top himself with the sequel.
		The real reason is that, in the middle of all the dealmaking for the movie rights to "Hannibal," Demme was left out in the cold when Harris' literary agent, Mort Janklow, and movie agency, Creative Artists Agency (which, ironically, also represents Demme), sold the sequel to De Laurentiis.
	www.salon.com /media/log/1999/06/03/demme (505 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Music: Old King: Neil Young and Jonathan Demme in Nashville
		Director Jonathan Demme shot the shows for a film to be released this fall.
		Demme and Young were both working on a grander, less focused tableau where the excitement is visceral if not as immediate, the richer pleasures derived cerebrally from lyric, history, and juxtaposition.
		Later in Philadelphia, Beloved, and Manchurian Candidate, and in a very different way The Silence of the Lambs, Demme is still focused on the human community and by the possibilities of the individual alone as well as the triumphs of social cooperation.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2005-08-26/music_feature2.html (3332 words)

	Jonathan Demme News
		Jonathan Demme, 62, is the positive Pied Piper of American cinema.
		Jonathan Demme knows more than a little about musical portraits, having made the 1984 classic ''Stop Making Sense," his dazzling portrait of the Talking Heads.
		Neil Young & Jonathan Demme photo by Peter Kramer - Getty Images Last night, the concert film of Neil Young called Heart of Gold, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
	www.topix.net /who/jonathan-demme (450 words)

	Reel.com: Jonathan Demme
		Jonathan Demme returns to his quirky comedy roots with the romantic caper The Truth About Charlie.
		Director Jonathan Demme is fine if people want to apply that label to The Truth About Charlie, his reworking of the 1963 romantic caper Charade.
		However, despite some vociferous praise by critics, Demme's next picture, a 1998 adaptation of Toni Morrison's Beloved, garnered precious little gold at the box office or at award ceremonies.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/D/jonathandemme (1980 words)

	Creating Sound for Demme
		Ron Bochar discusses the creation of sound effects in scenes from Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia.
		Here's how Jonathan described Jodie Foster's first trip down to visit Lecter in the dungeon: "This is the bowels of the building.
		The convention is to add reverb to Mary [Steenburgen]'s voice, but Jonathan said that would be hokey.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/4394/demme.html (623 words)

	DVDFILE.COM Forum - Jonathan Demme
		Demme is liberal in the best sense of the word, while still delivering filmmaking on a visceral level, no matter the genre.
		For me, the real first "Demme movie" is the wonderful CITIZEN'S BAND (HANDLE WITH CARE), which while dated (the CB craze????) has an eccentric cast of characters who seem like real people, and is PTA-ish in its affection for them.
		SWING SHIFT was taken away from Demme and isn't very substantial, though in its evocation of Wartime fashions and kitsch, it's very much of a piece with his other work.
	forums.dvdfile.com /showthread.php?t=47730 (808 words)

	Jonathan Demme @ Filmbug
		Director/Producer Jonathan Demme won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Silence of the Lambs in 1991, which received a total of five Oscars, including Best Picture.
		Demme is well-known as a documentary filmmaker, having directed Cousin Bobby (1991) and the Grammy Award-winning The Making of Sun City (1986).
		Demme is a founding member of the organization Artists for Democracy in Haiti and produced the album Konbit, a collection of Haitian music, in addition to directing a video for Les Frères Parent.
	www.filmbug.com /db/35269 (470 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Manchurian Candidate -- Jonathan Demme - DVD - Wide Screen
		Updating a Cold War thriller to reflect 21st-century geopolitics is tricky business, but director Jonathan Demme reworks Richard Condon’s pulpy page-turner rather neatly, owing to particularly deft scripting and some noteworthy performances.
		Without Communists to pick on, Demme and his screenwriters assign the primary villainy to monstrously large multinational Manchurian Global, and one can easily draw correlations to the current administration's ties to the corporate world.
		Jonathan Demme directed this updated remake of John Frankenheimer's 1962 cult favorite The Manchurian Candidate, a pioneering examination of political conspiracy and psychological reconditioning.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=97363368946&pwb=1 (1325 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Screens: See What They Do to You
		Demme and Young joined me and three other journalists for their last roundtable of the afternoon.
		Demme, a seasoned pro in the art of concert films, having directed the features Stop Making Sense with the Talking Heads and Storefront Hitchcock with Robyn Hitchcock, in addition to filming scads of music videos, had also worked previously with Young.
		Jonathan, Ellen, and I all worked on the staging, presenting each song individually so that each one had a chance to breathe and be treated as an individual on its own, an individual scene of the story.
	austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2006-03-10/screens_feature13.html (1552 words)

	Movie Zone - @N-Zone Magazine - James Franco In City By The Sea \| Movie Reviews, News, Pictures & More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Director Jonathan Demme has created an eclectic pastiche of films over the past three decades making risky, quirky films, which reflect his canted view of the world.
		Demme explained his methods recently when he stopped in Philadelphia to promote the film.
		The film is dedicated to Ted Demme [Demme’s late nephew] and Marshall Lewis, who was a great pal of mine.
	www.atnzone.com /moviezone/features/jonathandemme.shtml (1766 words)

	The Manchurian Candidate (2004): Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Jonathan Demme
		"Demme’s visuals are as captivating as Frankenheimer’s were in the 1960s yet the plot of this “Manchurian Candidate” lost quite a bit in the translation."
		"Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate is a political popcorn pleaser that’s rousing in its sheer rawness."
		"Demme's remake won't leave the same historical thumb print, but for the moment, in the moment, it manages to convey the same sense of uneasy mistrust."
	ofcs.rottentomatoes.com /movie-1134297/reviews.php (980 words)

	"THE PRACTICE" STAR LISA GAY HAMILTON APPEARS ON THE BIG SCREEN
		Set in Paris, The Truth About Charlie is an exhilarating combination of romance and suspense, igniting sparks of all kinds in Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme's fresh take on the 1963 Stanley Donen film Charade.
		Demme painstakingly retained the core of the original film while altering virtually every other element of it.
		I think Jonathan gets very excited and very high off of individuals who are just as excited about life, and just as excited about the work.
	www.exodusnews.com /entertainment/Entertain101.htm (642 words)

	Jonathan Demme (Beloved)
		Jonathan Demme: I think it was probably that it was completely understood that if you didn't complete the days work on any given day that you would be replaced.
		That instilled in me a very strong discipline and a sense that first and foremost your priority was to keep the movie on schedule and on budget, and that's one way you get to stay on the job.
		We knew there was going to be a scene in the living room and a scene in the kitchen and a scene in the backyard, and they all involve Goldie and Ed Harris (who played her husband) and Kurt, for some other scenes, but there are no details.
	www.industrycentral.net /director_interviews/JD01.HTM (8840 words)

	Jonathan Demme
		Jonathan Demme emerged from the halcyon days of low-budget genre filmmaking -- he began as a member of Roger Corman's stable of writers in the 1970s -- to become one of Hollywood's most critically admired directors in the 80s and 90s.
		SWING SHIFT (1984) had the potential to be a probing look at women factory workers during WW II, but the film suffered from disagreements between Demme and star-producer Goldie Hawn over plot development and editing.
		Many view Demme's decision to film PHILADELPHIA (1993), a moving courtroom drama dealing with discrimination against gays and PWAs (People with AIDS), as an atonement.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho7/demme_j.htm (1187 words)

	eBay - jonathan demme, Movie Memorabilia, DVD items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jonathan Demme's MELVIN AND HOWARD 35MM Trailer 1980
		Married to the Mob [VHS Tape] (1994) Demme, Jonathan;..
		Max and Gabys Alphabet by Jonathan Demme, Lynne Warr...
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	Amazon.com: Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense: DVD: Bernie Worrell,Alex Weir,Steven Scales,Lynn Mabry,Ednah Holt,Tina ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Director Jonathan Demme's STOP MAKING SENSE, listed by Entertainment Weekly as one of the Essential Independent Films when they produced that list years ago, has been called, by others, the greatest rock concert films of all time.
		Demme never shows the audience through the film, though you can hear them, for the film is just about the band, the stage.
		Jonathan Demme - Director, Jonathan Demme - Writer, Talking Heads - Writer, Gary Goetzman - Producer (producer), Gary Kurfirst - Producer (executive producer)...
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