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Profile of Jonathan Demme
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Jonathan Demme |
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22nd February 1944 |
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Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA |
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From 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.
One of his common directoral motifs is to allow characters to look almost directly into the camera.
Jonathan formed his production company, Clinica Estetico, with producers Edward Saxon and Peter Saraf. They were based out of 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?)
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