Jonathan Demme

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Before City Hall Shuts Down for a Week, a Great Actress Stops By to Stop the Sagging

Tom Hanks and Irma P. Hall in The Ladykillers​Last night, Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall sent word that before everyone at 1500 Marilla Street goes on extended holiday vacay -- tomorrow's a furlough day -- there's one last press conference on the schedule. And it's quite the all-star jam session ... More >>

Holiday Feast, Extra Stuffing

Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is the gift this season needs

The Other Sister

Anne Hathaway makes a compelling bad girl in Jonathan Demme’s pedestrian family drama

Oh, Canada

Midway through the Toronto film fest, and things are looking bleak

Small Change

Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote

Anything But Plain

See Demme's view of Jimmy Carter at the Modern

Jimmy Carter Documentary Full of Good Intentions

Demme follows Carter's controversial book tour and ends up with the same old narrative

Charity Cases

Good ways to spend some money. Just get a receipt for your taxes.

Heart Harvest

Go mining for a Heart of Gold at the AllGood

The Terrorist's Mind

Go mining for a Heart of Gold at the AllGood

Bring in the Trash

Go mining for a Heart of Gold at the AllGood

Old Man

Take a look at Neil Young at the Modern

On-Screen Stumping

Take a look at Neil Young at the Modern

Summer Camp

Demme goes for the knowing giggle in his Candidate overhaul

Radio Free Haiti

Jonathan Demme's documentary brings a joyful revolutionary to the screen

In Character

You know the face; the name is Tobolowsky

Vanity Fare

Ray Liotta wants to know why he loses roles to...Owen Wilson?

Being Ray Liotta

Plus: Finding Himself

Yes, But Whose Truth?

Jonathan Demme remakes Charade, but it's hardly an imitation

Flesh for Fantasy

Brett Ratner tarts up this Red Dragon adaptation

Sly Foxx

He steals Ali, but will Hollywood give Jamie Foxx a shot at the title?

Road to Ruin

A CB radio opens a channel for evil in John Dahl's Joy Ride

You're Not The Boss of Me

The Boss is coming to your living room

Blowin' Smoke

Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

Fava Beans and Ham

Hannibal proves that Hopkins without Foster just doesn't equate

The old new media blues

The singer-songwriter hasn't died. He's just gone online.

Gregory wise-ass

The singer-songwriter hasn't died. He's just gone online.

Heads up

Fifteen years later, the reissue of Stop Making

Sense opens old wounds ... and heals them

Talking Heads

Stop Making Sense Special New Edition (Warner Bros.)

To Cuba and back

A trip to Wenders' Buena Vista Social Club is nothing short of heavenly

Frogs on film

Robyn Hitchcock's new record is a soundtrack to a film that does exist--yet doesn't

Not nearly Beloved

Toni Morrison's novel makes an awkward transition from page to screen

Honey, I shrunk the movie

Ulee's Gold chases the yawn at the end of the rainbow

A killer

Grosse Pointe Blank aims high and hits its target

Force fed

After two decades, Star Wars has become the cult film for the rest of us

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Second-hand thrills

Two great actresses get stuck holding the Xerox in Copycat

Valley of the dolls

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar is a plastic pleasure

Channel surfing

The 1994 Dallas Video Festival mixes equal parts ineptitude and brilliance