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.

Demme was born in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York in 1944, and graduated from the University of Florida.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

He is also a member of the steering committee of the Friends of the Apollo Theater in Oberlin, Ohio along with his wife, and filmmaker Jonathan Demme.

It is " not quite an independent film " released by Orion Pictures, with Jonathan Demme receiving presenter credits for his role in the film's financing.

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.

Le Mat would reunite with Demme for 1980's Melvin and Howard, in which he played the titular role of Melvin Dummar.

Bern wrote " Swing Set ," a duet with Emmylou Harris, for the off Broadway production of " Family Week " directed by Jonathan Demme and wrote the title song for Demme ’ s documentary " Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains.

During 1993, he composed the scores for M. Butterfly ( another collaboration with Cronenberg ), Philadelphia ( his second collaboration with Jonathan Demme ), and Mrs. Doubtfire, directed by Chris Columbus.

On January 22, 2012 the Master Class at Slamdance Festival featured Coffee with Neil Young & Jonathan Demme for their new film Journeys.

Atwood has collaborated several times with directors Tim Burton, Rob Marshall and Jonathan Demme.

Hitchcock collaborated with director Jonathan Demme in 1998 for a live concert and film Storefront Hitchcock, and later appeared in Demme's 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate, in which he played double agent Laurent Tokar.

It also features new video interviews with Demme and writer E. Max Frye, the original theatrical trailer, and a special booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Thompson.

He appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), in a small role, while there and also worked with directors like Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman.

* Handle with Care ( 1977 film ), a comedy by Jonathan Demme

" The Washington Post wrote that " Jonathan Demme has nailed one with this playful, but dangerous, gangster farce.

* LA Weekly interview with Jonathan Demme on the making of Stop Making Sense

Working again with Jesse Beaton, and now with Jonathan Demme as Executive Producer, they were able to obtain a strong, $ 20 million budget for the film, paving the way for a smooth production.

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.

Corman helped launch the filmmaking careers of Jonathan Demme ( Caged Heat, Crazy Mama ), Jonathan Kaplan ( White Line Fever ), Ron Howard ( Grand Theft Auto ), Paul Bartel ( Death Race 2000 ), and Joe Dante ( Piranha ), all of whom made some of their early films as interns for the company.

Ted Demme had the entire cast come to Minneapolis and live together for two to three weeks so that they could bond.

The Jonathan Demme documentary The Agronomist suggests that figures within the Lavalas government under Aristide, such as Dany Toussaint, may have had a motive to kill Dominique.

In 1986, actor Spalding Gray, who had a small role in the film as the American consul, created Swimming to Cambodia, an acclaimed monologue ( later filmed by Jonathan Demme ) based upon his experiences making The Killing Fields.

Demme had considered additional shooting on a soundstage made to recreate the Pantages Theater, but the band declined to do this, as they thought the lack of audience response would have hindered the energy of their performance.

Schechter had also taken on the job of documenting the sessions on video and producing a behind-the-scenes documentary, working with 16 mm crews and independent production companies, directed by Jonathan Demme.

Demme had produced two films for Corman, including the women in prison picture The Hot Box ( 1972 ).