The Drift Presents: The Silence of the Lambs

Director: Jonathan Demme

1991 / 118min / 4K DCP

Demme’s riveting, skin-crawly adaptation of Thomas Harris’s novel of the same name earned a prestige rarely granted to horror movies thanks to its two undeniable powerhouse central performances: Anthony Hopkins as psychopath psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, stuck behind bars due to his penchant for cannibalism, and Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, the FBI agent trainee who has to win Lecter’s trust and consult his blighted, brilliant mind in order to stop another serial killer at large. “The popularity of Jonathan Demme’s movie is likely to last as long as there is a market for being scared.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The weekend before the election, The Drift presents a special event in partnership with Metrograph. Join writer Sophie Lewis and associate editor and contributor Erik Baker for a discussion on Kamala Harris and the figure of the female cop, the subject of Lewis’s forthcoming Issue Fourteen essay. The conversation will precede a screening of Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs (1991) featuring Anthony Hopkins as the “late, great Hannibal Lecter” and Jodie Foster as the FBI trainee on his case.