SILENCE OF THE LAMBS Screens June 30th at Webster University ‘A Tribute to Jonathan Demme’

“I do wish we could chat longer, but… I’m having an old friend for dinner. Bye.”

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS screens Friday, June 30th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). This is the seventh film in their ‘Tribute to Jonathan Demme’ The movie starts at 8:00pm.

Films don’t get much more creepy or thrilling as Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-sweeping SILENCE OF THE LAMBS from 1991. The young and feminine Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), who is training to be an F.B.I. agent, must find the whereabouts of a serial killer named Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). The only way possible is interviewing a captured serial killer named Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter (Anthony Hopkins).

There are so many elements that make SILENCE OF THE LAMBS chillingly scary. Buffalo Bill chooses young female victims and skins them. He kidnaps the daughter of a senator which quickly prompts an FBI hunt. Agent Clarice visits Dr. Lecter who is held in a maximum security prison to ask him questions about Buffalo Bill’s psychological profile because he was Dr. Lecter’s patient many years ago….when Dr. Lecter was a normal human being (if you can call it that).

I have always found the idea of a psychologist going insane and becoming a human eating monster very scary. I mean he is supposed to be the expert about human behavior to cure psychological disturbances and he is the most disturbed of all. However, he is equally brilliant. Dr. Lecter’s brilliant mind brings depth to his character. Clarice’s difficult task of understanding and deciphering the mind of -not one but- two psychopaths creates multi-dimensions. Hopkins as Lecter, is incontrovertibly and incredibly at the top of his game and it is his brilliance that gets the best out of the other actors, especially Jodie Foster. In fact, it won’t be a hyperbole, that Anthony Hopkins’s portrayal of cannibalistic Hannibal Lecter in SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is one of the best, the world of cinema has ever seen or offered. In spite of having some of the most gruesomely disturbing and viciously graphic sequences, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is one of the most decorated and enthralling movies of all time. A must watch.

Admission is:

$6 for the general public
$5 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$4 for Webster University staff and faculty

Free for Webster students with proper I.D.

Here’s the rest of the line-up for the other films that will be part of the ‘Tribute to Jonathan Demme’:
7/1 –  Philadelphia (1993)