Some know Jonathan Demme from Stop Making Sense , the most remarkably staged concert documentary ever made. Others connect the director with the gruesome psychodrama of The Silence of the Lambs or his sympathetic depiction of an AIDS victim in Philadelphia . But even if you also saw Demme’s quirky crime comedy Something Wild or Neil Young: Heart of God , you might have missed his documentary on Haiti, his Spalding Gray film, his Manchurian Candidate remake, his work under Roger Corman … and what’s that about a Justin Timberlake movie?

In There’s No Going Back , David M. Stewart ties Demme’s unusually diverse filmography together in an entertaining account focused on the films without losing sight of the man who made them. According to Stewart, Demme began analyzing films as

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