Demme ended up renouncing the finished product, and when the film was released in May 1984, it was generally panned by critics and neglected by moviegoers.

He also was the uncle of film director Ted Demme, who died in 2002.

1985's Low-Life refined and sometimes mixed the two styles, brandishing " The Perfect Kiss "— the video for which was filmed by Jonathan Demme — and " Sub-culture ".

Greg Dulli, the band's lead singer, was close friends with Ted Demme.

Edward K. " Ted " Demme ( October 26, 1963 – January 13, 2002 ) was an American film director and producer.

He was the nephew of movie producer and director Jonathan Demme.

Demme was married to Amanda Scheer, with whom he had two children.

The 2003 album Blackberry Belle by The Twilight Singers led by Greg Dulli was written in tribute to director Ted Demme, a close friend of Dulli's.

" Gray achieved celebrity status for his monologue Swimming to Cambodia which was adapted into a film in 1987 by the filmmaker Jonathan Demme.

It was written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme.

Jonathan Demme has stated that he was moved to direct the film after a friend of his, the illustrator Juan Suarez Botas, was diagnosed with AIDS.

According to Factory Records owner Tony Wilson, Demme was looking forward to filming dynamic shots of Stephen Morris behind the drum kit and was dismayed to find that the drums in the song were all programmed.

The band was featured in a Jonathan Demme movie called Something Wild playing as a high school reunion band ; however, they did not feature on the soundtrack.

In 1998, the novel was made into a film directed by Jonathan Demme and produced by and starring Oprah Winfrey.

Directed by Jonathan Demme, it was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, as the group was touring to promote their new album Speaking in Tongues.

Demme has stated that one night of shooting was dedicated almost entirely to wide shots from a distance, to minimize the intrusion of cameras on stage.

The program ( created by Ted Demme and Peter Dougherty ) was the first hip hop music show on the network, based on the original MTV Europe show, aired one year earlier.

Initially the screenplay was attached to Ron Howard and then Jonathan Demme, who had planned to cast Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in the lead roles.

The song was first released as a live version on Live in New York City album and appeared a few years later on The Essential Bruce Springsteen however in April 2001, a studio version of the song was released as a very rare U. S .- only 1-track radio promotional single on CD-R. A music video featuring the performance from the New York City show was released in 2001 and directed by Jonathan Demme.

Robert Jonathan Demme ( born February 22, 1944 ) is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter.

* 1988: Married to the Mob, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Alec Baldwin.

These include Woody Allen, Angela Bassett, Colin Firth, Johnny Madera, Tim Burton, Scarlett Johansson, Edward Norton, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Ron Howard, John Travolta, William Hurt, Vanessa Williams, Bill Clinton, Salma Hayek, Isabella Rossellini, Kevin Smith, Daniel Handler, Alec Baldwin, Steven Soderbergh, Omar Sharif and Jonathan Demme.

After Swing Shift, Demme stepped back from Hollywood to make the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense ; the eclectic screwball action-romantic comedy Something Wild ; a film-version of the stage production Swimming to Cambodia, by monologist Spaulding Gray ; and the New York Mafia-by-way-of Downtown comedy Married to the Mob.

Demme has directed music videos for artists such as Suburban Lawns, New Order, KRS-One's H. E. A. L.

Born in New York City, Demme grew up in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York and attended South Side Senior High School.

" During the preparation of the stunt, Jonathan Demme told Time Out New York, “ He ’ s the most exciting thing in America ... And I ’ m not just talking entertainment .”

Jonathan Demme directed " The Perfect Kiss " video, which is unlike any other New Order clip.

In his review in the New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film a " sharp, engaging, very funny, anxious comedy " and commented, " Mr. Demme is a lyrical film maker for whom there is purpose in style.

( directed by Ted Demme and released by New Line Cinema in 1993 ) along side various hip hop stars and celebrities, including Denis Leary.

It was written and directed by Jonathan Demme for New World Pictures, headed by Roger Corman.

However Demme succeeded in raising the finance on his own and Corman agreed to Distribute through New World Pictures.

* 1944 – Jonathan Demme, American director

Demme broke into feature film working for exploitation film producer Roger Corman from 1971 to 1976, co-writing and producing Angels Hard as They Come and The Hot Box.

To this end, Demme drew inspiration from Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter ( 1978 ).

Woody Allen, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, Oliver Stone, and several other prominent directors worked with Orion during its most successful years from 1978 to 1992.

The death of Dulli's friend, director Ted Demme in January 2002, forced him to shelve the project, and he took a second leave from writing and recording.

MTV Raps hosts Ed Lover, Doctor Dre and Fab 5 Freddy starred in the comedy Who's the Man ?, directed by Ted Demme.

After Fighting Mad, Demme directed the comedy film Handle with Care for Paramount Pictures in 1977.

Demme's next film, 1980's Melvin and Howard, did not get a wide release, but received a groundswell of critical acclaim, and led to the signing of Demme to direct the Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell star vehicle Swing Shift.

Intended as a prestige picture for Warner Bros. as well as a major commercial vehicle for Demme, it instead became a troubled production due to the conflicting visions of Demme and star Hawn.

Demme followed that up with Philadelphia, which garnered star Tom Hanks a Best Actor Oscar.

In 2010, Demme made his first foray into theater, directing Family Week, a play by Beth Henley.

Demme is on the Board of Directors at Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY.

Demme formed his production company, Clinica Estetico, with producers Edward Saxon and Peter Saraf.

Demme has three children by two marriages: Ramona, Brooklyn and Josephine.

During the 1980s, Demme had a brief romantic relationship with rock singer Belinda Carlisle, who appeared in his movie Swing Shift.

* 1963 – Ted Demme, American film and television director ( d. 2002 )

Beautiful Girls is a 1996 American film directed by Ted Demme and starring Matt Dillon, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Rosie O ' Donnell, Martha Plimpton, Natalie Portman, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, and Uma Thurman.