Last week, our long-time professional acquaintance Jonathan Demme passed away. Not only was he one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation, he was a genuinely good person who seemed to be adored by everyone he came into contact with (a quality even rarer than filmmaking genius.)

In The New Yorker magazine, Terrence Rafferty wrote of him, "Of the major American directors, he's the least erratic, the most consistently good company, because he has interests rather than obsessions" - Demme joins a lineage of auteurs like Jean Renoir & Louis Malle defined not by their stylstic grip or devotion to a genre, but by their warm humanism; filmmakers whose deep compassion and boundless curosity on the subject of humanity were their essential characteristics.

All week long we'll be paying tribute to Demme by remembering some of our favorite scenes, characters and moments from his body of work.

{"Throw your rice." MELViN & HOWARD}
{Clarice rides the elevator. THE SiLENCE OF THE LAMBS}
{Performance & humor in the 80's.}
{Discussing Demme on the Wrong Reel podcast.}
{Loading the dishwasher. RACHEL GETTiNG MARRiED}
{A pie fight. TRYiNG TiMES.}
{Dinosaur in a beanie. MARRiED TO THE MOB.}
{A dog accomplice. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.}
{Miami, Haiti, music & documentary.}