Demme loved music and movies about music, and is responsible for what the Associated Press called one of the most seminal concert films ever made, the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense.
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme died on Wednesday in NY of esophageal cancer complications.
As reported by the IndieWire site, the director of the film Silence of the Lambs died of esophageal cancer and complications from heart disease.
Demme, who was born in Baldwin, Long Island, started his film career with Roger Corman-Time magazine wrote that he was a "junior ad man in Swinging '60s London when Corman tapped him to write exploitation movie scripts". The film was a huge critical and popular success, one only three films to win all five major Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay.
Demme himself won the best-director Academy Award for "Silence of the Lambs", a film that has a lofty place in Oscar history for a few reasons: 1.
While Demme was renowned for his dramas, such as Philadelphia, Beloved, the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate and Rachel Getting Married, the filmmaker first made his name directing comedies like Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift and Married to the Mob.
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Demme directed last year's concert documentary "Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids", which chronicled the final days of Timberlake's most recent tour.
"I know now that this was also the last time I saw Jonathan Demme". A MASSIVE soul. He lived in love.
Many other tributes have flocked in: Author Stephen King tweeted: "Deeply sad to hear my friend, neighbor, and colleague Jonathan Demme has passed on".
Bryan Fuller, who created the Hannibal TV series inspired by The Silence of the Lambs, simply posted: "Rest in peace, Mr. Demme", as director Kevin Smith reacted in shock: "Dear God, no!" A great filmmaker and human being. "I want you guys to do a movie together with me". Though Demme was treated for the cancer in 2010, it came back in 2015, and his health rapidly worsened in the weeks leading up to his death. "Love that guy, love him so much". In lieu of flowers, his family askes that donations be made to the Americans for Immigrant Justice.
Demme's family will have a private funeral, his rep confirmed to Rolling Stone. Demme's breakthrough was Stop Making Sense, and after this he went onto make the screwball action-romantic comedy Something Wild, and for then-on his career blossomed.
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