What Goes Around Comes Around: The Films of Jonathan Demme

This first book on the director ofThe Silence of the LambsandPhiladelphiais comprehensive, analyzing each of Jonathan Demme's thirteen films. Demme received the 1980 New York Film Critics Award as Best Director forMelvin and Howard.Subsequent Demme films such asSomething Wildand the Talking Heads concert filmStop Making Sense,which won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary, made Demme a cult favorite in the league of Roger Corman. With 199l'sThe Silence of the Lambs,Demme moved into a different league. The top-grossing film of the year,Silencewon five Academy Awards, becoming the first film to sweep the Best Director, Actor, Actress, and Picture categories since 1975'sOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Philadelphiaalso has been a top-grossing film, with Tom Hanks winning 1994's Best Actor Oscar. Michael Bliss and Christina Banks include a wealth of biographical and critical data; an exclusive interview with Demme; the only on-set report on the filming ofThe Silence of the Lambs;an interview with Craig McKay, Demme's Emmy-winning film editor; a bibliography; and a Demme filmography. Many of the book's movie still illustrations have never been published.Michael Bliss is the author of 'What Goes Around Comes Around: The Films of Jonathan Demme', published 1996 under ISBN 9780809319848 and ISBN 0809319845.