The Silence of the Lambs

Dir. Jonathan Demme (1991).
The movie made Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lector but it’s Jodie Foster’s nuanced, tragic performance and Jonathan Demme’s somber direction that make this serial killer thriller a movie.

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The Rolling Stones’ Soul Picnic

“The Stones, in case you don’t already know, are doing a free concert in San Francisco this Saturday. Why not New York? Jagger answered, ‘It’s too cold.’ ”

by The Village Voice Archives
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Stones & Angels: Viewing the Remains of Altamont

“The Stones hired us to act as security for $500 worth of beer. That Mick Jagger, he used us for dupes.”

by Grover Lewis
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Soundtrack to Watergate Vol. 2: Pirates, Angels, Dinosaurs, Gas Masks — and Ziggy Again

Nixon, a buttoned-down Quaker, was the antithesis of the counterculture that most of the albums trumpeted

by R.C. Baker
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A Sid Vicious Story

“I guess she was perfect for him — they could beat each other up every night and nobody’d mind. They had real fights.”

by Lester Bangs
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Bill Barr: The “Cover-Up General”

“At the center of the criticism is the chief articulator of Bush’s imperial presidency,” we reported in 1992, “the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad.”

by Frank Snepp
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Those Wild and Crazy Cult Movies

“Don’t wait for a critical consensus to form around a film before you deign to see it. Rush off on your own, and maybe you can start your own cult.”

by Andrew Sarris

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The Silence of the Lambs

by Jim Hoberman

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