The Silence of the Lambs (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) R
To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 13, 2018
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jodie Foster & Anthony Hopkins | |
Performer: | Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Brooke Smith, Frankie Faison, Diane Baker, Dan Butler, Kasi Lemmons, Tracey Walter & Charles Napier | |
Directed by | Jonathan Demme | |
Edited by | Craig McKay | |
Screenplay by | Ted Tally | |
Composition by | Howard Shore | |
Story by | Thomas Harris | |
Produced by | Kenneth Utt, Edward Saxon & Ron Bozman | |
Director of Photography: | Tak Fujimoto | |
Executive Production by | Gary Goetzman |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1991 -
Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins
Academy Awards 1991 -
Best Actress: Jodie Foster
Academy Awards 1991 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Ted Tally
Academy Awards 1991 -
Best Director: Jonathan Demme
Academy Awards 1991 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
It is a masterclass of acting, directing, writing and cinematography, of tonality, of pacing and of emotion.
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The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
...A sombre masterpiece....The film creates a world drained of light, counterpointed by a sinister and unsettling score...
Sight and Sound
Hopkins' performance is spectacularly unnerving and should win him future award nominations. Holding her own against Hopkins' hare is Jodie Foster as the tenacious, tortoise-like trainee.
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Hollywood Reporter
Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs has everything you want in a popular thriller. It's stylish, intelligent, audacious rather than shocking, and stolen by a suave monster you'll never forget.
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Boston Globe
4 stars out of 5 -- [S]till the definitive upmarket serial killer thriller, achieving the almost unprecedented feat of winning all five major Oscar categories...
Uncut
The movie, scary and graphic to cause timid souls (such as this writer) to close their eyes at certain points, has a vise-like grip on the audience.
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New York Daily News
The creator of Something Wild establishes a similarly unpredictable context here, mixing suspense and thrills and even black humor in provocative fashion.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Product Description:
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins will likely be forever associated with their roles in this bone-chilling masterpiece, based on the novel by Thomas Harris and directed by Jonathan Demme. FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Foster) is sent by her supervisor (Scott Glenn) to interview ferociously intelligent serial killer Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lechter (Hopkins) at his cell in a Maryland mental hospital. The FBI hopes Lechter can provide insight into the mind of killer-at-large, Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine), whose current abductee happens to be the daughter of a senator. Intrigued by Clairice, Lechter demands information about her personal life and in exchange for clues, and the two begin to form a strangely intimate connection, with a girl's life hanging in the balance. Starling is gradually revealed as a woman struggling out of her own darkness, bound to aid the dysfunctional males around her on their own paths of transformation, liberation, and destruction. This is a film of brilliant and disturbing beauty that transcends its B-movie origins (though it does honor them with a cameo appearance by Roger Corman). Its enduring influence has led to a slew of similarly dark-toned serial killer films, and a sequel, HANNIBAL (2001).
Keywords:
Cannibalism
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Detectives
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Psychos
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Killer
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Murder
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Recommended
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Disturbing
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Blockbuster
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
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