4/11/2023 0 Comments Townscaper sculptor“She’s the key… when you have a living witness to history, it makes all the difference.” “Every time I speak to her, she says that she sends love to all the fans and thanks them for their years of dedication to her mom,” Foreman said. When I spoke to Foreman, she asked to relay a message from Marylyn. SCANDAL centers around Astor’s 1936 custody battle with her ex-husband over their 4-year-old daughter, Marylyn, and the disclosure of Astor’s private diary detailing scandalous love affairs into the proceedings. Foreman has written and contributed to several books, including Women in Motion and In the Picture: Production Stills from the TCM Archives, and she helmed the short documentary “Memories of Oz.” Her most recent project, the documentary SCANDAL: THE TRIAL OF MARY ASTOR, premiered at the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival and debuts on TCM January 6th. ![]() And a nice bottle of Chianti.Īlexa Foreman is no stranger to TCM in fact, she’s worked very closely with the network since its inception in 1994 as a producer, researcher and interviewer. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is such a perfect Oscar-winning nightmare, I could just eat it with a spoon. I think of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) fighting an alien or Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) fighting a terminator. We’ve seen their transformation from not knowing to knowing from fighting their fear through to courage. We’ve seen the journey of heroines before. How’d he simultaneously elicit those two emotions? That’s the dichotomy Demme weaves: we might shake our head with a slight chuckle at one of Lecter’s perverse jokes we are not happy with the psychiatric warden tormenting the jailed serial killer. It’s a pleasure to watch the film unfold, though what we see is unpleasant. He plays with time a little when we seamlessly see Clarice walk into her past. Demme pulls the plot forward with connecting sentences from one scene to the next. The story is laid out perfectly, respecting our intelligence. The world’s more interesting with you in it.” Scenes between Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins just crackle. But Lecter has his own self-interest in mind and has some diabolical, macabre tricks up his sleeve. (Never let ‘em see you sweat, ey Clarice?) If, at first, he tears her down, he does come to admire her guides her on how to catch the killer the FBI currently seeks. And Clarice meets his gaze without wavering. He has a laser-beamed stare boring in to read you. He is smart, urbane, cultured has a twisted sense of humor. At first, he toys with Clarice like a cat with a mouse. “ Believe me, you don’t want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.” When the camera dollies over to the good doctor’s cage…cell, there stands the very, very still Anthony Hopkins. She also becomes an apt pupil of a serial killer.ĭemme sets up Hannibal Lecter by telling us a lot about him before we even ever meet him: don’t let him touch you, don’t tell him anything personal. As a recruit, we see she is determined, resourceful, smart and figures things out. Clarice is competitive, ambitious, sensitive and deals with sexism in her position. ![]() He’s also actually put her in harm’s way by sending her in to see a notorious, mind-warping serial killer without arming her with all the facts. We have the FBI chief (Scott Glen) seek her out among all the students and teaches her to get clues from the forensic end of things. (Her first Oscar is for THE ACCUSED ‘88). This film is the second of her two Academy Awards. They both seem to be grooming her.ĭirector Jonathan Demme takes us on this frightening journey of FBI recruit Clarice Starling played with crisp directness by Jodie Foster. In a twisted sort of a way, we have a serial killer and an FBI agent both vying to be the ‘Obi Wan Kenobi’ to a young recruit to help solve a crime. Now, you might question what kind of subject matter is that for public entertainment? I’d say it’s a really good one, because the director respects the audience’s intelligence by serving up a good solid script with riveting, albeit disturbing, characters. ![]() We are going to try and catch a serial killer. Deserving of its wins, the film is a terrifying, disturbing and wonderful piece of filmmaking. TCM walks on the dark side with its screening THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (’91), a film that won “the Big Five” Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Screenwriting. Officer: “Is it true what they’re sayin’? He’s some kind of vampire?”Ĭlarice: “They don’t have a name for what he is.”įebruary is TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar celebration and I love it.
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