The Stacks: ‘Something Wild’ Is One Great Road Movie
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An early masterpiece from Jonathan Demme, ‘Something Wild’ mixes screwball comedy with terrifying violence and gets away with it. Pauline Kael explains how Demme did it.
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Before Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia cemented Jonathan Demme's reputation as a big time Hollywood director, he made some of the most enjoyable movies of the '80s: Melvin and Howard, Stop
