Jonathan Demme. Jonathan Demme got his start directing Caged Heat (1974), everyone's favorite women-in-prison film. Yes, that's a real genre, women-in-prison, and Caged Heat is the women-in-prisoni...

Mr. Tally ManTed Tally is a Yale-educated playwright who made the jump to cinema with his 1990 adaptation of the novel White Palace into a romance starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader. But it w...

Orion PicturesWe've all heard how by the time you see the light of a star, it's already dead. Well, so is Orion Pictures, a company that filed for bankruptcy in 1991, the movie studio equivalent of...

Mysteries of Pittsburgh A film with subject matter as dark and gritty as The Silence of the Lambs appropriately receives a dark and gritty film treatment, shot in the deepest darkest locales of Pit...

Howard ShoreWhat do Gollum and Buffalo Bill have in common? Beyond excellent taste in jewelry, they have a film score composer linking them. Howard Shore is a prolific, award-winning composer who w...

A Nice ChiantiHannibal Lecter is an official pop culture icon. People know him even if they haven't devoured any of the four books, four movies, Hannibal TV show, or known anyone devoured by the do...