Jonathan Demme filmography
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Jonathan Demme was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of film and television
Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
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| Director | Producer | Writer | |||
| 1971 | Angels Hard as They Come | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1972 | The Hot Box | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1973 | Black Mama White Mama | Story | |||
| 1974 | Caged Heat | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1975 | Crazy Mama | Yes | |||
| 1976 | Fighting Mad | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1977 | Handle with Care | Yes | originally titled Citizens Band | ||
| 1979 | Last Embrace | Yes | |||
| 1980 | Melvin and Howard | Yes | |||
| 1984 | Swing Shift | Yes | |||
| 1986 | Something Wild | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1987 | Swimming to Cambodia | Yes | Concert film | ||
| 1988 | Married to the Mob | Yes | |||
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Yes | [1][2] | ||
| 1993 | Philadelphia | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1998 | Beloved | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2002 | The Truth About Charlie | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2008 | Rachel Getting Married | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2013 | A Master Builder | Yes | |||
| 2015 | Ricki and the Flash | Yes | |||
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Second unit director
- Fly Me (1972)
- The Hot Box (1972)
Documentary
[edit]| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Producer | Writer | |||
| 1984 | Stop Making Sense | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1987 | Haiti: Dreams of Democracy | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1992 | Cousin Bobby | Yes | |||
| 1994 | The Complex Sessions | Yes | |||
| One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave: Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room 1994[3] |
Yes | ||||
| 1996 | Mandela | Yes | |||
| 1998 | Storefront Hitchcock | Yes | |||
| 2003 | The Agronomist | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also cinematographer |
| Beah: A Black Woman Speaks | Yes | ||||
| 2006 | Neil Young: Heart of Gold | Yes | |||
| 2007 | Man from Plains | Yes | Yes | ||
| Right to Return: New Home Movies From the Lower 9th Ward[4] | Yes | ||||
| 2009 | Neil Young Trunk Show | Yes | |||
| 2011 | I'm Carolyn Parker[5] | Yes | Yes | Also cinematographer | |
| 2012 | Neil Young Journeys | Yes | Yes | ||
| Enzo Avitabile Music Life[6] | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2015 | What's Motivating Hayes[7] | Yes | Short film | ||
| 2016 | Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids[8] | Yes | |||
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
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| Director | Writer | Producer | |||
| 1978 | Columbo | Yes | Episode "Murder Under Glass" | ||
| 1980–86 | Saturday Night Live[9] | Yes | Yes | 3 episodes | |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Yes | Episode "Who Am I This Time?" | ||
| 1987 | Trying Times | Yes | Episode "A Family Tree" | ||
| 1997 | Subway Stories | Yes | Segment "Subway Car from Hell" | ||
| 2011 | Enlightened[3] | Yes | 2 episodes | ||
| A Gifted Man[3] | Yes | Yes | Episode "Pilot" | ||
| 2013–14 | The Killing[10] | Yes | 2 episodes | ||
| 2017 | Shots Fired[8] | Yes | Episode "Hour Six: The Fire This Time" | ||
| 2018 | Seven Seconds | Yes | Episode "Brenton's Breath" (Posthumous release) | ||
Music video
[edit]| Year | Title | Artist |
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| 1979 | "Gidget Goes to Hell" | Suburban Lawns |
| 1985 | "The Perfect Kiss"[11] | New Order |
| "Everybody's Young" | Sandra Bernhard | |
| 1987 | "Solitude Standing" | Suzanne Vega |
| 1988 | "Away" | The Feelies[12] |
| 1995 | "Murder Incorporated"[11] | Bruce Springsteen |
Acting roles
[edit]| Year | Title[11] | Role | Notes |
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| 1977 | The Incredible Melting Man | Matt Winters | |
| 1979 | Last Embrace | Man on Train | |
| 1985 | Into the Night | Federal Agent | |
| 1996 | That Thing You Do! | Producer of That Thing You Do! Director of Weekend At Party Pier |
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| 2000 | Oz | Commercial Director[3] | |
| 2015 | I Thought I Told You to Shut Up | Narrator[13] | Short documentary |
References
[edit]- ^ Pristin, Terry (March 31, 1992). "'Silence of the Lambs' Sweeps 5 Major Oscars". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
- ^ "Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director of 'Silence of the Lambs,' Dies at 73". Retrieved April 26, 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Jonathan Demme Biography & Filmography". Hollywood.com. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ Kapsis, Robert, ed. (January 1, 2001). "introduction". Jonathan Demme:Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. xiv. ISBN 978-1-60473-118-7.
- ^ "A Steely Fighter From the City That Care Forgot". New York Times. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ "Enzo Avitabile Music Life". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ "What's Motivating Hayes". Mountainfilm.org. Archived from the original on April 28, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ a b Lang, Brent; Dagan, Carmel (April 26, 2017). "Jonathan Demme, Silence of the Lambs director, dies at 73". Variety. Archived from the original on April 26, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
- ^ "Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director of 'Silence of the Lambs,' Dies at 73". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ "The Killing gets it exactly right in season four, just in time to end". AV Club. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ a b c "Jonathan Demme". BFI. Archived from the original on April 16, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ Lieberman, Josh. "The Feelies at Maxwell's". The Paris Review. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
- ^ "Jonathan Demme Narrates I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!!," a Short Film About the Counterculture Cartoon Reid Fleming". Open Culture. April 26, 2017. Archived from the original on February 9, 2019. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
