Something Wild (1986): The Other Half of You
Jonathan Demme’s 'Something Wild' is a lot of things—Renoirian screwball, Gen-X Odd Couple, defense for the reggae mixtape—but it’s a road movie first.| Bright Wall/Dark Room
Jonathan Demme’s 'Something Wild' is a lot of things—Renoirian screwball, Gen-X Odd Couple, defense for the reggae mixtape—but it’s a road movie first.| Bright Wall/Dark Room
So much of Rachel Getting Married is about these needle-fine moments of grace and clemency. Many great directors find truth in skepticism, but Jonathan Demme often found it in the sparseness of in-betweens. He knew the great promise of rehearsals: for wedding dinners and musical performances and people trying on new ways to heal, in perpetuity until it sticks, because there’s humanity in the effort.| Bright Wall/Dark Room
The Talking Heads are strange truth-tellers, joyfully angry people, persistently interested in the power of art. And in Stop Making Sense, collaborating with Jonathan Demme elevates their music into something truly transcendent.| Bright Wall/Dark Room
