By Iain Blair

I’ve always been a huge fan of Jonathan Demme’s work, and thanks to such films as The Silence of the Lambs, which won five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, Philadelphia, Married to the Mob, Something Wild and Beloved, he long ago cemented his reputation as one of the most talented and versatile American filmmakers. But in the last few years he’s been MIA in the world of feature films and when I spoke to him the other day, I found out why;

“I just love making documentaries now and they interest me more than fiction pieces,” he told me. “I just did a second documentary on Neil Young, before that I did one on Jimmy Carter, and I’m also doing one about New Orleans.” Demme still makes features, but it’s interesting that his new film ,Rachel Getting Married, which is a family drama starring Anne Hathaway as Kym, a recovering drug addict who gets out of rehab for the weekend of her sister’s wedding, is shot almost like a documentary by the great DP Declan Quinn (In America, Monsoon Wedding, Shine A Light) who also shot the film in HD.

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