Tag Archives: Jonathan Demme

Married to the Mob (1988)

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Ross Birks

Another 80s Demme banger that welcomes you with open arms upon every revisit. So full of screwball wit and genre-bending charm. I especially enjoy Demme and Fujimoto’s growing confidence with the subjective camera and the foregrounding of colourful oddballs. It … Continue reading →

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Something Wild (1986)

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Ross Birks

Every time I rewatch this it jumps up like twenty places in my favourite movies of all time. The transition of tones is utterly jaw-dropping. A film so full of character, ennui, optimism, spontaneity, sadness and sheer life. If my … Continue reading →

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Last Embrace (1979)

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Ross Birks

Jonathan Demme’s take on the Hitchcock thriller is enjoyable enough and moves with a 90-minute swiftness. Roy Scheider is one of the best actors the 70s blessed us with and it’s fun to see him play a conflicted, cookie-cutter hero. … Continue reading →

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“I’m Howard Hughes” – Melvin and Howard (1980)

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Ross Birks

Jonathan Demme’s criminally underrated Melvin and Howard opens with this great sequence in which down-on-his-luck Melvin Dummar (Paul Le Mat) picks up a grizzly old man (Jason Robards) he’s found lying on the side of the road in the middle … Continue reading →

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