Ten Movies “Everybody” Saw — Except Me: The Silence of the Lambs (#9)

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Pop that popcorn, because I’m looking at movies I never looked at. These are hailed as “classics” and highly-grossing movies, many of which have things that have made their way into popular culture. That wasn’t enough to persuade me to see the film. Here’s today’s movie. #9: The Silence of the Lambs I’ll bet popcorn sales were pretty low at this flick! Oscars out the wazoo (it swept the “big four”: film, director, actor [Sir Anthony Hopkins], and actress [Jodie Foster]), critical acclaim out the wazoo (Hannibal Lecter named AFI’s #1 villain and Clarice Starling the #6 hero, and the film the #67 best film ever), and probably fava beans out the wazoo, too. But not for me. I’ll take Sir Anthony’s early performance as a disturbed scientist ready to unleash his nerve gas creation on London in the Department S episode “A Small War of Nerves” and Jonathan Demme’s brilliant direction of “Psycho Killer,” the opening song in the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense instead. Now, back to lunch. The Silence of the Lambs Directed by Jonathan Demme Released in 1991 This song, according to a web site, was in the film. I’d rather use this than go with my first instinct, which was to use the song “Timothy” :