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The Silence of the Lambs (Widescreen Special Edition)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine Directed By: Jonathan Demme Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 21, 2001 Running Time: 118 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: February 14, 1991
Amazon.com essential video: Based on Thomas Harris's novel, this terrifying film by Jonathan Demme really only contains a couple of genuinely shocking moments (one involving an autopsy, the other a prison break). The rest of the film is a splatter-free visual and psychological descent into the hell of madness, redeemed astonishingly by an unlikely connection between a monster and a haunted young woman. Anthony Hopkins is extraordinary as the cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, virtually entombed in a subterranean prison for the criminally insane. At the behest of the FBI, agent-in-training Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) approaches Lecter, requesting his insights into the identity and methods of a serial killer named Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). In exchange, Lecter demands the right to penetrate Starling's most painful memories, creating a bizarre but palpable intimacy that liberates them both under separate but equally horrific circumstances. Demme, a filmmaker with a uniquely populist vision (Melvin and Howard, Something Wild), also spent his early years making pulp for Roger Corman (Caged Heat), and he hasn't forgotten the significance of tone, atmosphere, and the unsettling nature of a crudely effective close-up. Much of the film, in fact, consists of actors staring straight into the camera (usually from Clarice's point of view), making every bridge between one set of eyes to another seem terribly dangerous. --Tom Keogh
Amazon.com essential video: Based on Thomas Harris's novel, this terrifying film by Jonathan Demme really only contains a couple of genuinely shocking moments (one involving an autopsy, the other a prison break). The rest of the film is a splatter-free visual and psychological descent into the hell of madness, redeemed astonishingly by an unlikely connection between a monster and a haunted young woman. Anthony Hopkins is extraordinary as the cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, virtually entombed in a subterranean prison for the criminally insane. At the behest of the FBI, agent-in-training Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) approaches Lecter, requesting his insights into the identity and methods of a serial killer named Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). In exchange, Lecter demands the right to penetrate Starling's most painful memories, creating a bizarre but palpable intimacy that liberates them both under separate but equally horrific circumstances. Demme, a filmmaker with a uniquely populist vision (Melvin and Howard, Something Wild), also spent his early years making pulp for Roger Corman (Caged Heat), and he hasn't forgotten the significance of tone, atmosphere, and the unsettling nature of a crudely effective close-up. Much of the film, in fact, consists of actors staring straight into the camera (usually from Clarice's point of view), making every bridge between one set of eyes to another seem terribly dangerous. --Tom Keogh
Chilling Classic - ^ Silence of the Lambs is a thriller that only others can aspire to. Much darker and deeper than most, the stars carry their parts with exquisite, chilling moments from the beginning. You are reeled in as the beautiful FBI Trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) meets the psychiatrist Hannibal Lechter - "Hannibal the Cannibal" (Anthony Hopkins).
The plot winds tight as Lechter is interviewed by Starling at his cell in a Maryland mental Hospital. The give and take between them grabs your attention and from that point on you are emersed in the mind games and intelligent sparing for information between the two. The FBI is hopeful that Lechter can go into the mind of a serial killer on the loose, "Buffalo Bill." Lechter does, but only if Starling will give information about herself in exchange for insight and clues on the killer at large. Buffalo Bill's current captive is a daughter of a senator and finding her is a riveting and breathless ending. Through it all, Lechter is respectful of Agent Starling, and understands her own fears and dark secrets. Oddly, through him she struggles out of her own sad, hidden issues.
Silence of the Lambs is both disturbing and yet transformational with the caterpillar turning into a beautiful moth or butterfly theme. Clarice fights her fears and finds her own strength and courage through Lechter in a odd way. The film is an unforgettable classic.
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins were made for the parts they played, and they did it to perfection.
Excellent Product and Service ^ Hi All, I received this movie the same way the description was written. good price, the movie is in perfect conditions like new. no problems with delivery.
Great Film Suffers a Bad Transfer ^ I'm sure it's quite easy to read around the other reviews for the praise the film deserves as a film. BUT unfortunately this blu-ray transfer looks washed out, with a constant sheen of brown that dampens the whole image throughout.
It's a great film, but definitely deserves a better transfer than this. Buyer beware.
The Silence of the Lambs ^ An ambitious FBI agent enlists the aid of a criminally insane ex-psychiatrist to help track down a vicious serial killer. It has been a good long while since I have felt the presence of Evil so manifestly demonstrated as in the first appearance of Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs. The Silence of the Lambs slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.
CLASSIC MOVIE ^ Great movie....I've seen this about a thousand times and will probably never get sick of it.
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