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[A caption reads, "CAUTION The following preview contains imagery which some viewers may find disturbing."]
[A board in an FBI office displays newspaper clippings of a killer named Bill.]
[Jack Crawford, the Agent-in-Charge of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI.] Jack Crawford: We're interviewing all the serial killers now in custody for a psycho-behavioral profile.
[Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee in jogging clothes, looks at the newspaper clippings on the board in Crawford's office.] Crawford: The one we want most refuses to cooperate. [Clarice, dressed in a skirt suit and carrying a briefcase and a trench coat, walks through an office corridor.]
[Crawford sits in his office with Clarice.] Crawford: I want you to go after him again today in the asylum.
[Clarice walks down a corridor in the asylum, accompanied by prison guards. One of them opens a gate.] Clarice Starling: Who's the subject?
[A cell door slides as Clarice, wearing a visitor's badge, waits for it to open.] Crawford: The psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter.
[Wide shot of an ample room with a cage in the middle. Clarice walks into the room and is greeted by a prison guard.] Crawford: I want your full attention, Starling. Be very careful.
[Back in Crawford's FBI office.] Clarice: Yes, sir.
[In the asylum, Clarice hesitantly approaches Hannibal Lecter's cell. Lecter, a highly intelligent former psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, is sitting at a desk with his back to Clarice, reading.] Crawford: Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.
Hannibal Lecter: Good evening, Clarice.
[A caption displaying five stars, reads, "Writes a new chapter in the book of movie monsters. Simon Braud,
[Close up on a hand holding scissors cutting fabric, then of a dark cellar with rubble.] Lecter: Why don't you ask me about Buffalo Bill?
Clarice: Do you know something about him? [Catherine Martin, a woman trapped in a dry well, screams.]
[Shots in quick succession of the serial killer known as Buffalo Bill, who abducts, kills and skins overweight women.] Lecter: A fledgling killer's first effort at transformation.
[In a coroner's room, shots in quick succession of a bagged body, the coroner's hand plucking something out of the body's throat and putting it in a sterilized jar.] Clarice: She had an object deliberately inserted into her throat.
[Back the asylum, outside of Lecter's cell.] Clarice: Why does he place them there, Doctor?
[Close up on night-vision goggles being turn on, then of Clarice being watched through those same goggles in the dark cellar.]
[A caption reads, "Anthony Hopkins' insinuating performance puts him right up there with the screen's great bogeymen." Sheila Benson,
[Close up on Lecter's face inside his cell.] Lecter: A census-taker once tried to test me.
[Clarice goes through old newspaper articles on Lecter's trial in a public library. Close up on Clarice uncovering clues on the Buffalo Bill case.] Lecter: I ate his liver with some fava beans, and a nice Chianti.
[Lecter handcuffs one of his guards to the cell bars. The guard screams as Lecter attacks him, now pounding the guard's baton with a mouth covered in blood.]
[SWAT cars in Tennessee rush to the scene where Lecter has been imprisoned and has now escaped from. A caption reads, "Sleek and tantalizingy creepy."
[SWAT officers arrive at the scene.] Sergeant Tate: Two officers down. Lecter is missing and armed.
[Buffalo Bill gently holding a moth. Clarice travels in the back of a car.] Clarice: He's never impulsive. He's got a real taste for it now.
[Close up on Buffalo Bill sewing a piece of human skin.] Clarice: He's getting better at his work.
[SWAT officers open the top part of an elevator, as a bloodied body falls from it.] Clarice: He'll never stop.
[Clarice talks to Lecter in his asylum cell.] Clarice: You know who he is, don't you?
[Close up on Buffalo Bill painting his lips, then of Lecter, in sunglasses, talking over the phone from a phone booth.] Lecter: Oh, Clarice. Your problem is you need to get more fun out of life.
[A caption reads, "Macabre diagnosis of a nation's psycho-sexual decadence." Lizzie Francke,
[Clarice, armed with a gun, in a dark cellar. Close up on a doorbell ringing, then of Lecter pounding the police baton with blood in his mouth. Then shots in quick succession of an FBI officer and Clarice running, Lecter with a face muzzle and a teary Catherine trapped in the dry well.] Lecter: And you think if you save poor Catherine, you could make them stop, don't you?
[An agitated Buffalo Bill punches a mannequin, then a close up on Clarice talking to Lecter.] Lecter: You think if Catherine lives... Clarice: I don't know.
[Lecter pounding the police baton again, with blood in his mouth. Close ups on Clarice then on Lecter talking to her.] Lecter: ...you won't wake up in the dark ever again.
[Buffalo Bill wearing night-vision goggles in the dark cellar as he stretches his hand and nearly touches a scared Clarice.]
[Clarice does shooting practice in the training camp. An FBI agent storms a house through the window.]
[Shots in quick succession of Clarice, Buffalo Bill, Lecter attacking a prison guard and Clarice shooting her gun in the dark cellar.]
[In his cell, Lecter relaxes listening to classical music. His mouth is covered in blood and his face and white T-shirt are blood-splattered. A prison guard lies on the floor behind him.]
[A caption reads, "The Silence of the Lambs", followed by film credits.]
[A caption reads, "Available on 4K UHD in the UK August 26."]
Arrow Video
Following an early career directing low-budget exploitation movies for producer Roger Corman, by the 1990s, Jonathan Demme was known best for making quirky comedies (Something Wild, Married to the Mob) and music documentaries (Stop Making Sense) - that is, until he signed on to adapt Thomas Harris' best-selling thriller The Silence of the Lambs. The resulting film - a sombre, enthralling nightmare vision of psychopathology - became a five-time Academy Award® winner and made cannibal mastermind Hannibal Lecter a household name.
FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster, The Accused) races against time to stop a serial killer, nicknamed "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine, Heat), before he kills again. To solve the case, she risks her own sanity by consulting with malevolent psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, Nixon). A master manipulator, the sinister Dr Lecter offers crucial information that may be key to unlocking the killer's identity - but at a price. Clarice must open primal events from her past to Lecter's menacing curiosity and confront the trauma that fuels her search for justice.
A deeply disturbing examination of human evil, The Silence of the Lambs changed the face of the serial killer genre and remains a highly influential, landmark classic of mystery, suspense and psychological horror.
Product Features
LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
- Newly restored original lossless 2.0 stereo soundtrack
- Optional lossless 5.1 soundtrack
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio commentary by critics Elizabeth Purchell & Caden Mark Gardner
- Audio commentary by critic Tim Lucas
- Through Her Eyes - brand new visual essay on the theme of transformation by critic Justine Peres Smith
- Healing Humanity - brand new visual essay exploring point of view and personalization by critic Willow Catelyn Maclay
- Breaking the Silence - archival picture-in-picture interviews and trivia track
- 2002 episode of the Bravo television series Page to Screen focusing on The Silence of the Lambs
- Scoring the Silence - 2004 archival interview with composer Howard Shore
- Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster - three-part archival 2005 documentary by Laurent Bouzereau
- Understanding the Madness - 2008 archival featurette featuring various FBI alumni discussing the profiling of serial killers
- 1991 "Making Of" Featurette
- 22 deleted scenes
- 7 additional deleted scenes, sourced from a VHS workprint
- Outtakes
- Anthony Hopkins phone message
- Theatrical trailer
- Teaser trailer
- 11 TV spots
- Image gallery
- Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring two original choices of artwork
- Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Alexandra West, Josh Nelson, Sam Moore and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Double-sided fold-out poster, featuring two original choices of artwork
- Six double-sided, postcard-sized lobby card reproduction artcards
- 118 mins approx
- Jonathan Demme
- 18
- Jodie Foster
- Anthony Hopkins
- Scott Glenn
- Ted Levine
English SDH
- 1.85:1
- 1991
- English
- 1
- B
- Arrow Video
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[A caption reads, "CAUTION The following preview contains imagery which some viewers may find disturbing."]
[A board in an FBI office displays newspaper clippings of a killer named Bill.]
[Jack Crawford, the Agent-in-Charge of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI.] Jack Crawford: We're interviewing all the serial killers now in custody for a psycho-behavioral profile.
[Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee in jogging clothes, looks at the newspaper clippings on the board in Crawford's office.] Crawford: The one we want most refuses to cooperate. [Clarice, dressed in a skirt suit and carrying a briefcase and a trench coat, walks through an office corridor.]
[Crawford sits in his office with Clarice.] Crawford: I want you to go after him again today in the asylum.
[Clarice walks down a corridor in the asylum, accompanied by prison guards. One of them opens a gate.] Clarice Starling: Who's the subject?
[A cell door slides as Clarice, wearing a visitor's badge, waits for it to open.] Crawford: The psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter.
[Wide shot of an ample room with a cage in the middle. Clarice walks into the room and is greeted by a prison guard.] Crawford: I want your full attention, Starling. Be very careful.
[Back in Crawford's FBI office.] Clarice: Yes, sir.
[In the asylum, Clarice hesitantly approaches Hannibal Lecter's cell. Lecter, a highly intelligent former psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, is sitting at a desk with his back to Clarice, reading.] Crawford: Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.
Hannibal Lecter: Good evening, Clarice.
[A caption displaying five stars, reads, "Writes a new chapter in the book of movie monsters. Simon Braud,
[Close up on a hand holding scissors cutting fabric, then of a dark cellar with rubble.] Lecter: Why don't you ask me about Buffalo Bill?
Clarice: Do you know something about him? [Catherine Martin, a woman trapped in a dry well, screams.]
[Shots in quick succession of the serial killer known as Buffalo Bill, who abducts, kills and skins overweight women.] Lecter: A fledgling killer's first effort at transformation.
[In a coroner's room, shots in quick succession of a bagged body, the coroner's hand plucking something out of the body's throat and putting it in a sterilized jar.] Clarice: She had an object deliberately inserted into her throat.
[Back the asylum, outside of Lecter's cell.] Clarice: Why does he place them there, Doctor?
[Close up on night-vision goggles being turn on, then of Clarice being watched through those same goggles in the dark cellar.]
[A caption reads, "Anthony Hopkins' insinuating performance puts him right up there with the screen's great bogeymen." Sheila Benson,
[Close up on Lecter's face inside his cell.] Lecter: A census-taker once tried to test me.
[Clarice goes through old newspaper articles on Lecter's trial in a public library. Close up on Clarice uncovering clues on the Buffalo Bill case.] Lecter: I ate his liver with some fava beans, and a nice Chianti.
[Lecter handcuffs one of his guards to the cell bars. The guard screams as Lecter attacks him, now pounding the guard's baton with a mouth covered in blood.]
[SWAT cars in Tennessee rush to the scene where Lecter has been imprisoned and has now escaped from. A caption reads, "Sleek and tantalizingy creepy."
[SWAT officers arrive at the scene.] Sergeant Tate: Two officers down. Lecter is missing and armed.
[Buffalo Bill gently holding a moth. Clarice travels in the back of a car.] Clarice: He's never impulsive. He's got a real taste for it now.
[Close up on Buffalo Bill sewing a piece of human skin.] Clarice: He's getting better at his work.
[SWAT officers open the top part of an elevator, as a bloodied body falls from it.] Clarice: He'll never stop.
[Clarice talks to Lecter in his asylum cell.] Clarice: You know who he is, don't you?
[Close up on Buffalo Bill painting his lips, then of Lecter, in sunglasses, talking over the phone from a phone booth.] Lecter: Oh, Clarice. Your problem is you need to get more fun out of life.
[A caption reads, "Macabre diagnosis of a nation's psycho-sexual decadence." Lizzie Francke,
[Clarice, armed with a gun, in a dark cellar. Close up on a doorbell ringing, then of Lecter pounding the police baton with blood in his mouth. Then shots in quick succession of an FBI officer and Clarice running, Lecter with a face muzzle and a teary Catherine trapped in the dry well.] Lecter: And you think if you save poor Catherine, you could make them stop, don't you?
[An agitated Buffalo Bill punches a mannequin, then a close up on Clarice talking to Lecter.] Lecter: You think if Catherine lives... Clarice: I don't know.
[Lecter pounding the police baton again, with blood in his mouth. Close ups on Clarice then on Lecter talking to her.] Lecter: ...you won't wake up in the dark ever again.
[Buffalo Bill wearing night-vision goggles in the dark cellar as he stretches his hand and nearly touches a scared Clarice.]
[Clarice does shooting practice in the training camp. An FBI agent storms a house through the window.]
[Shots in quick succession of Clarice, Buffalo Bill, Lecter attacking a prison guard and Clarice shooting her gun in the dark cellar.]
[In his cell, Lecter relaxes listening to classical music. His mouth is covered in blood and his face and white T-shirt are blood-splattered. A prison guard lies on the floor behind him.]
[A caption reads, "The Silence of the Lambs", followed by film credits.]
[A caption reads, "Available on 4K UHD in the UK August 26."]
Arrow Video
Following an early career directing low-budget exploitation movies for producer Roger Corman, by the 1990s, Jonathan Demme was known best for making quirky comedies (Something Wild, Married to the Mob) and music documentaries (Stop Making Sense) - that is, until he signed on to adapt Thomas Harris' best-selling thriller The Silence of the Lambs. The resulting film - a sombre, enthralling nightmare vision of psychopathology - became a five-time Academy Award® winner and made cannibal mastermind Hannibal Lecter a household name.
FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster, The Accused) races against time to stop a serial killer, nicknamed "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine, Heat), before he kills again. To solve the case, she risks her own sanity by consulting with malevolent psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, Nixon). A master manipulator, the sinister Dr Lecter offers crucial information that may be key to unlocking the killer's identity - but at a price. Clarice must open primal events from her past to Lecter's menacing curiosity and confront the trauma that fuels her search for justice.
A deeply disturbing examination of human evil, The Silence of the Lambs changed the face of the serial killer genre and remains a highly influential, landmark classic of mystery, suspense and psychological horror.
Product Features
LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
- Newly restored original lossless 2.0 stereo soundtrack
- Optional lossless 5.1 soundtrack
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio commentary by critics Elizabeth Purchell & Caden Mark Gardner
- Audio commentary by critic Tim Lucas
- Through Her Eyes - brand new visual essay on the theme of transformation by critic Justine Peres Smith
- Healing Humanity - brand new visual essay exploring point of view and personalization by critic Willow Catelyn Maclay
- Breaking the Silence - archival picture-in-picture interviews and trivia track
- 2002 episode of the Bravo television series Page to Screen focusing on The Silence of the Lambs
- Scoring the Silence - 2004 archival interview with composer Howard Shore
- Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster - three-part archival 2005 documentary by Laurent Bouzereau
- Understanding the Madness - 2008 archival featurette featuring various FBI alumni discussing the profiling of serial killers
- 1991 "Making Of" Featurette
- 22 deleted scenes
- 7 additional deleted scenes, sourced from a VHS workprint
- Outtakes
- Anthony Hopkins phone message
- Theatrical trailer
- Teaser trailer
- 11 TV spots
- Image gallery
- Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring two original choices of artwork
- Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Alexandra West, Josh Nelson, Sam Moore and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Double-sided fold-out poster, featuring two original choices of artwork
- Six double-sided, postcard-sized lobby card reproduction artcards
- 118 mins approx
- Jonathan Demme
- 18
- Jodie Foster
- Anthony Hopkins
- Scott Glenn
- Ted Levine
English SDH
- 1.85:1
- 1991
- English
- 1
- B
- Arrow Video
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Oh, and Arrow, just one more thing: love your Bluray!
It had been some considerable time since had watched this stone cold classic. It still packs a punch and makes my skin crawl. I noticed Arrow had given this milestone a handsome limited edition presentation and bought myself a copy. It's remarkable to compare the HD version and this sublime 4k transfer. I notice there's a new depth in the soundtrack as well, particularly in the gun range scene which actually made me jump due to the gun blast's concussive strength. The picture is beautiful. I cannot fault it. The extras are also very nice indeed. The interviews with the director and Jodie Foster are revealing and entertaining. And if this wasn't enough there's a Dr. Hannibal Lecter ansaphone message if you fancy it. This film won 5 Oscars, 71 other wins and 50 nominations in total. Arrow have superbly preserved this masterpiece with an edition worthy for your collection. This is a perfect release of a perfect film. Don't dawdle. It won't be around forever.
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