Both Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter are getting their own TV shows soon; while NBC’s Hannibal is already announced and in development, Lifetime is working on a show about agent Clarice Starling’s early days. The show is called, naturally, Clarice, and would seem to fit well into Lifetime’s tough-ladies-with-sensitive-souls niche. We can only Read More
Last week the Yivo Institute co-sponsored a conference on “Freud’s Jewish World.” Many of the speakers brought up an antisemitic incident that Freud related in The Interpretation of Dreams. When Freud was 10 or 12, his father Jacob told him that one Saturday years before in Freiberg, Austro-Hungary, he had Read More
He’s ba-a-a-ck . Even in protective custody, you can’t let a good ghoul go to waste. In the nerve-frying Red Dragon , Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the world’s most famous cannibal, growing anemic on a diet of dandelion greens, comes back for meat, his wit still as sharp as his incisors. It’s the third time around Read More
Jonathan Nossiter’s Signs and Wonders , from a screenplay by James Lasdun and Mr. Nossiter, from a story by Mr. Lasdun, plays out as a striking gothic tale of passion and death through marital, geographical and political displacement. Stellan Skarsgård embodies a new vision of the ugly American abroad, as a commodities trader who assumes Read More
Lecter’s 2nd Course: Another Clarice
He-e-e-e-e’s back!
Dr. Hannibal Lecter, everybody’s favorite cannibal, comes out of retirement in Hannibal , a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs so gory and
gruesome it makes the original seem like a preschooler’s bedtime story. His
fondness for human livers garnished with fava beans has been replaced Read More
