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NEW YORK -- Dean Stockwell, a top Hollywood child actor who gained new success in middle age in the sci-fi series “Quantum Leap” and in a string of indelible performances in film, including David Lynch's “Blue Velvet,” Wim Wenders' “Paris, Texas” and Jonathan Demme's “Married to the Mob,” has died.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Will Thorne Staff WriterDelivering series follow-ups to Jonathan Demme’s iconic “The Silence of the Lambs,” beloved kids projects “The Mighty Ducks” and “Saved by the Bell,” and Marvel Cinematic Universe characters all seem like daunting, if not impossible, challenges on the face of it.Yet, in the burgeoning era of franchising, studios are digging deeper than ever into their IP mines. This results in old favorites needing to feel both familiar and new again, to captivate a broad audience.

“The Silence Of The Lambs” is a hostile workplace environment melodrama about what women endure in and out of the home, trained to be pliant and agreeable while predated upon by superiors, peers, and serial killers who want to wear their skin without— the film takes pains to clarify — also wanting to be them. Wolves wear sheep’s clothing not because they wish to be sheep, after all.

“The Silence Of The Lambs” is a hostile workplace environment melodrama about what women endure in and out of the home, trained to be pliant and agreeable while predated upon by superiors, peers, and serial killers who want to wear their skin without— the film takes pains to clarify — also wanting to be them. Wolves wear sheep’s clothing not because they wish to be sheep, after all.

This Valentine’s Day, “The Silence of the Lambs” celebrates 30 years of haunting imaginations and changing serial-killer cinema forever. On this week’s Be Reel, Noah and Chance appreciate the many inimitable qualities of Jonathan Demme‘s 1991 classic, including its lack of genre fealty, its simultaneous intensity and restraint, and how it perfectly positions Clarice Starling as the true detective (so to speak) and Hannibal Lecter as a beyond-memorable side dish.

Tomorrow will see the premiere of CBS‘ original series “Clarice,” a sequel series based on the fantastic Oscar-winning serial killer film “Silence of The Lambs” from director Jonathan Demme that starred Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. READ MORE: The 65 Most Anticipated TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2021 The new series will be following FBI Agent Clarice Starling, with Australian actress Rebecca Breeds taking over the role.

The list of actors cut out of Terrence Malick’s classic 1998 “The Thin Red Line” war movie is long and legendary (we’ve dedicated entire features to digging up nuggets of stories over the years). And actor Viggo Mortensen—cut out of early roles in films like Woody Allen’s “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” and Jonathan Demme‘s “Swing Shift”—knows a thing or two about being left on the cutting room floor.

I'm not sure any film or television franchise has generated a more wildly varied set of expectations than Thomas Harris' psychological horror output.

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefThirty years ago, “The Silence of the Lambs” terrified audiences worldwide — along with its two stars.As directed by Jonathan Demme, the R-rated blockbuster didn’t just rely on blood and guts to haunt viewers’ nightmares. It was a cerebral horror movie, one that exorcised our deepest fears to paint a portrait of unadulterated malevolence.

Anthony Hopkins is taking a trip down memory lane, reflecting on his role as Hannibal Lecter in .In honor of the film's upcoming 30th anniversary in February 2021, the 82-year-old Oscar winner opens up to ET about what it was like starring in the Jonathan Demme-directed thriller alongside celebrities like Jodie Foster and Scott Glenn.«My gosh, thirty years. That wasn't me, by the way, I was just acting,» Hopkins joked to ET's Nischelle Turner. «I'm not really Hannibal Lecter.

just really has no part in any discussion of the work of Byrne or of director Spike Lee, who turned the former Talking Heads front man’s Broadway show into a film that premiered at the slimmed-down TIFF on Thursday, and will come to HBO in October.

Marta Balaga Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, attending the Venice Film Festival with “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams,” a documentary about Ferragamo, and documentary short “Fiori, Fiori, Fiori!” (pictured), popped by the festival and Mastercard’s “Life Through a Different Lens: Contactless Connections” talk earlier this week. But he didn’t want to talk about lenses at all.

The story goes that Bill Murray and screenwriter Howard Franklin developed their adaptation of Jay Cronley’s novel “Quick Change” – released in theaters thirty years ago this week – with Jonathan Demme in mind to direct, but the filmmaker turned it down to make “The Silence of the Lambs.” (That abrupt transition mostly serves as a reminder of what a shift “Silence” was for Demme; “Quick Change” is much more in the mold of his earlier ‘80s films like “Married to the Mob” and “Something Wild.”)

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James Mangold’s “Ford V Ferrari” won the Outstanding Sound Mixing Motion Picture Award at the 56th CAS Awards. The film’s sound mixing team Steven A. Morrow, CAS; Paul Massey, CAS; David Giammarco, CAS;Tyson Lozensky, David Betancourt, and Richard Duarte were on hand to accept the award.