Cinephile with Mark Borchardt: Clarice

In his ongoing animated review series, Mark Borchardt turns his attention to the small-screen spawn of an Oscar-winning classic.

By Mark Borchardt and Frankie Latina

10:00 AM EST on February 25, 2021

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For three decades, The Silence of the Lambs has kept us in its latent grip of searing terror and immortal dread. In a precise return to form – with dense stylization and ever-ticking momentum dutifully intact – the episodic offering Clarice makes manifest the nightmare once more Thursday nights on CBS. Don’t forget the fava beans…

Mark Borchardt

Mark Borchardt is a filmmaker and playwright living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Some of his films include Coven, The Dundee Project and The More the Scarier VI.

Frankie Latina

Frankie Latina is an Italian-American independent writer-director born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who began using his uncle Dave's Super 8mm camera to make movies when he was a teenager. He studied film at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he learned how to make 16mm movies, and made his feature debut in 2009 with Modus Operandi. It was released theatrically by Kino Lorber in 2010 and is now available on VOD. Latina is currently making his second feature, Snapshot.