Released on this day 25 years ago, Jonathan Demme’s macabre masterpiece The Silence of the Lambs was only the third movie to ever sweep “The Big Five” at the Academy Awards — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. But the blood-curdling serial-killer thriller starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins deserves to be remembered (and re-watched with some fava beans and nice chianti) for reasons beyond its special place in Oscar history, or its $130.7 million haul at the box office. After all, it not only gifted the world with Hopkins’ unshakably malevolent portrayal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, it also became the rare genre movie that could make the higher claim to be Art.
In honor of the film’s silver anniversary, we revisited the film that first preoccupied our nightmares in the winter of 1991 to remember why The Silence of the Lambs was — and continues to be — the greatest blockbuster of the ‘90s…
I'm praying to Allah that "1989" beats Kendrick Lamar's album at The Grammys.
I can't wait for meltdowns from the blacks (and Nicki Minaj) as they cry racism.
...Vin
Allahu Akbar.
A great night at The Grammys. I feel like blowing something up.
Planting a bomb in Lady Gaga's nose tonight. It's big enough.
truly the new madonna
