How does a character with less screen time than a sitcom cold open become the most unforgettable part of a Best Picture winner? That’s the question The Silence of the Lambs (1991) forces us to ask ...

The Lecter character, Martin Amis said, was “on all levels, a snorting, rooting, oinking porker.” He remains popular.

In early 1999, the Oscar-winning screenwriter Ted Tally made a trip to Miami, where he visited the author Thomas Harris. They were celebrating: Harris had finally completed his third Hannibal Lecter ...

Hopkins had seen plenty of banal maliciousness while growing up in post–World War II Europe, where he had felt stupid and useless, a self-described oddball whose teachers constantly reminded him of ...