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The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs (English)
Location
Main screening room
Date
January 18th, 2025
Duration
130 min
Cycle
Face-to-face

This program brings together several film duos, exploring the unique dynamics of face-to-face encounters. These interactions can take the form of a chase, a direct confrontation, a tense meeting behind closed doors, or a spectacular final showdown. Antagonists, doubles, adversaries, or alter egos: these are all troubled relationships that unite and tear apart the protagonists, between fascination and aversion.

35 mm print loaned by the Cineclub Film Society, introduced by Philippe Spurrell, director of the CFS
Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, in 1991
The film will be preceded by Jan Švankmajer's short film, Dimensions of Dialogue

Dimensions of Dialogue
Directed by
Jan Švankmajer
Language
No dialogue
Origins
Czechoslovakia
Year
1983
Duration
12 min
Genre
Animation
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

Three short scenes illustrate with a sarcastic humor dialogues that do not give much... Now regarded as a classic of animation, Dimensions of Dialogue won the Grand Prize at the 1983 Annecy Festival.

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Dimensions of Dialogue
The Silence of the Lambs
Directed by
Jonathan Demme
Language
English
Actors
Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Origins
USA
Year
1991
Duration
118 min
Genre
Crime, drama, thriller
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

Buffalo Bill, a psychopath on the loose, wreaks havoc in the Middle West, where he has murdered several young women. Clarice, a young FBI agent, is given the task of questioning Hannibal Lecter, ex-psychiatrist and himself a psychopath and cannibal, in order to understand the psychology of the Middle West killer.

The Silence of the Lambs
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Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme was an American filmmaker, whose career directing, producing, and screenwriting spanned more than 30 years and 70 feature films, documentaries, and television productions. He was an Academy Award and a Directors Guild of America Award winner, and received nominations for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Independent Spirit Awards. Beginning his career under B-movie producer Roger Corman, Demme made his directorial debut with the 1974 women-in-prison film Caged Heat, before becoming known for his casually humanist films such as Melvin and Howard (1980), Swing Shift (1984), Something Wild (1986), and Married to the Mob (1988). His 1991 psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, based on the novel of the same title, won five Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture. His subsequent films earned similar acclaim, notably the HIV/AIDS-themed drama Philadelphia (1993), the supernatural Gothic horror Beloved (1998), the conspiracy thriller The Manchurian Candidate (2004), and the independent drama Rachel Getting Married (2008). Demme also directed numerous concert films such as Stop Making Sense (1984), and Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006), and worked on several television series as both a producer and director.

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