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Robert Jonathan Demme Wiki Biography

Robert Jonathan Demme (/ˈdɛmi/; born February 22, 1944) is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed films Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary/concert movies. His latest film A Master Builder opened in New York during June 2014 and was based on the 19th century play by Henrik Ibsen. IMDB Wikipedia $40 million 1944 1944-2-22 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) Baldwin Director Evelyn Purcell February 22 Jonathan Demme Net Worth Nassau County New York Philadelphia (1993) Pisces producer Rachel Getting Married (2008) Robert Jonathan Demme The Manchurian Candidate (2004) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) U.S. Writer

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Robert Jonathan Demme Trademarks

1. Frequently casts Jason Robards, Roger Corman, Kenneth Utt and Obba Babatundé in his films.
2. Extreme close-ups on faces.
3. Heavy use of steadicam interspersed with shots of handheld shots
4. Frequently uses New Order songs in the score of his movies
5. Characters looking directly into the camera
6. Frequently casts character actors Tracey Walter and Paul Lazar
7. Frequently uses Tak Fujimoto, as his director of photography
8. Frequently casts Buzz Kilman in a cameo role
9. Frequently casts Chris Isaak
10. Frequently casts Charles Napier

Robert Jonathan Demme Quotes

• [on Lu bian ye can (2015)] What if a brazen first-time filmmaker decided – beyond audaciously – that they didn’t want to cut from one location to another (all quite distant from each other) for about oh, half their new movie, and instead chose to dare to go with one super-duper-transcendental half-hour plus single take? Answer: you wind up with Gan Bi’s absolutely extraordinary “Kaili Blues”. Fair warning here: you need to be a seriously open and accessible film buff / cineaste / movie lover to be right for this picture. The cinema muse-deities have inspired and blessed “Kaili Blues” with a magic and mystery that is utterly unique. This film is capable of generating giant cinema joyfulness in those who are ready to bring an open heart, mind and eye to this viewing experience. Director Bi Gan won ‘Best Emerging Director’ and ‘Best First Feature’ at the 2015 Locarno Film Festival. I had the thrill of seeing this film first at last year’s Venice Film Festival, and two months later at the Lisbon and Estoril Film Festivals. The screenings I attended gave rise to audience-ecstasy in both situations. I loved it even more the second time. [2016]
• [on Michelle Pfeiffer] I would love to team up with Michelle again. She’s underutilized.
• I was really hooked on movies at a very young age. The Manchurian Candidate (1962), along with Seven Days in May (1964), Fail-Safe (1964) and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) were this quartet of anarchistic black-and-white American movies, each of which did things that you just didn’t do in American movies, especially in the realm of irreverence toward politics and government institutions and the Army. I was what, 16, it was shocking, it was thrilling and, interestingly, it predated my exposure to the French New Wave so, in a way, this was the American, a certain kind of new wave in American movies.
• I don’t think it’s sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie. I think what’s sacrilegious is to make a bad movie, whether it’s a remake or an original. It’s what I always tell my actor friends, anybody who’s in this, this [business], you’ve gotta try to hold out and only do the scripts, do the material that offers you the opportunity to do your best work. Because if you do stuff that doesn’t give you that opportunity? Your work’s not gonna be good. And you’re gonna suffer in the long run from that. So I don’t care if it’s a remake if it’s a great script with parts in it that can attract fantastic actors, God, you know, to make the movie.

Robert Jonathan Demme Important Facts

• $1,000,000
• Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is one of his biggest fans and as a result, pays homage to Demme (his famous close-ups, for example) in his work.
• Cousin of Robert W. Castle.
• Uncle-in-law of Amanda Scheer-Demme.
• Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000.
• He and Michael Mann have both directed a Hannibal Lecter film and have also both been involved in a film about Howard Hughes. Mann directed Manhunter (1986) and produced The Aviator (2004), which he was originally to have directed. One of Demme’s earliest films was Melvin and Howard (1980), and he later went on to direct The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
• Directed 8 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Christine Lahti, Dean Stockwell, Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Tom Hanks, and Anne Hathaway. Steenburgen, Hopkins, Foster and Hanks won Oscars for their performances in one of Demme’s movies.
• He frequently casts the same actors in most of his films, including Paul Lazar, Ted Levine, Harry Northup, Charles Napier, Dean Stockwell, Robert W. Castle, Denzel Washington, Jude Ciccolella, and Tracey Walter. He also tends to use non-actor friends or musicians he likes, as long as they are “interesting”.
• Father of Josephine Demme.
• Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. “World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985”. Pages 255-258. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
• Was voted the 45th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
• Frequently uses Pablo Ferro for his Title Sequences and montages.
• Directed Bruce Springsteen’s “Murder Incorporated” music video (1995).
• Has 3 children, with wife Joanne Howard.
• Uncle of Ted Demme.
• He co-directed, with Ted Demme, Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia” music video.
• Awarded honorary degree by Wesleyan University (June 3, 1990).

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