Arts > Movies > Filmmaking > Directing > Directors > D

Home >> Arts >> Movies >> Filmmaking >> Directing >> Directors >> D >> Demme, Jonathan

Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, New York) is an American film director, producer and writer.

Demme won a Academy Award for Directing for The Silence of the Lambs in 1991.

One of his most common directoral motifs is to allow characters to look well-nigh directly into a camera.

Jonathan formed his production company, Clinica Estetico, with producers Edward Saxon and Peter Saraf. It were depending away from New York for fifteen years.

Filmography
Caged Heat (1974) Crazy Mama (1975) Fighting Mad (1976) Handle with Care (1977) Last Embrace (1979) Melvin and Howard (1980) Who Am I This Time? (1983) Swing Shift (1984) Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads concert film) (1984) Something Wild (1986) Swimming to Cambodia (1987) Haiti: Dreams of Democracy (1987) Married to the Mob (1988) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Cousin Bobby (1991) Philadelphia (1993) Beloved (1998) Storefront Hitchcock (1998) The Truth About Charlie (2002) The Agronomist (2003) The Manchurian Candidate (2004) Prairie Wind (2006?)

Storefront Demme
Fan site offering news, filmography, future projects, articles and film scripts.

Start Making Sense
Interview with Demme about the making of "Stop Making Sense".

Jonathan Demme
Filmography and biography from the Internet Movie Database.

Jonathan Demme
Biography and filmography from the All Movie Guide.