I could detail for you all the ways this film goes on to define crime thriller cinema. You’ve probably heard them before: how every actor besides Jodie Foster looks right into the camera because the audience must see from FBI trainee Clarice Starling’s perspective; how Anthony Hopkins’ oily prince Hannibal Lecter laid the groundwork for every gentleman murderer presented since; or how the thriller genre’s villainization of homosexuality and gender-ambiguity doesn’t start here but definitely gets a big boost from Ted Levine’s sinewy serial killer. I could tell you all that but I don’t need to. You’ll see this movie because it is undeniable: There are other movies and there is Silence of the Lambs. AFS screens the Demme masterpiece alongside a new doc detailing the life of “Goodbye Horses” artist Q Lazzarus. – James Scott
March 29-30 & April 2
