Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense
by Jonathan Demme

Stop Making Sense
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Actor: Alex Weir, Bernie Worrell, David Byrne, Lynn Mabry, Steven Scales
Director: Jonathan Demme
Brand: Uni
Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth
Writer: Jonathan Demme
Editor: Lisa Day
Producer: Gary Goetzman
Producer: Gary Kurfirst
Writer: Talking Heads
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd

Movie Reviews of Stop Making Sense

Movie Review: Dance, Howl and Celebrate!
Summary: 5 Stars

OMG! I waited for this to be released on Netflix forever and don't regret a day of waiting! Yes I heard Talking Heads during their hayday. No, I really didn't start to "get it" until recent years. This DVD is just phenomenol, though, and makes me grieve the years I wasn't a fan!
I was ready to call it a night last night and decided to curl up on the couch w/ this flick instead. Well, it turned out to be a crazy dance party for one! It was impossible to watch and listen without trying out all of David Byrne's great moves! I sang and whirled and screamed out accolades for great filming, harmonies, lighting and effects... It was absolutely breathtaking stuff from every angle. I have to purchase this now and it will become my most loved "dance video".

Summary of Stop Making Sense

Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 10/26/1999 Starring: David Byrne Chris Franz Rating: Pg Director: Jonathan Demme
Over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, filmmaker Jonathan Demme joined creative forces with cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth and Talking Heads... and miracles occurred. Following a staging concept by singer-guitarist David Byrne, this euphoric concert film transcends that all-too-limited genre to become the greatest film of its kind. A guaranteed cure for anyone's blues, it's a celebration of music that never grows old, fueled by the polyrhythmic pop-funk precision that was a Talking Heads trademark, and lit from within by the geeky supernova that is David Byrne.

The staging--and Demme's filming of it--builds toward an orgasmic release of music, rising from the bare-stage simplicity of Byrne, accompanied only by a boom box on "Psycho Killer," to the ecstatic crescendo of "Burning Down the House," by which time the Heads and additional personnel have all arrived on stage for a performance that seems channeled from heaven for the purpose of universal uplift. (God bless Demme for avoiding shots of the luckiest audience in '80s pop history; its presence is acknowledged, but not at the viewer's expense.) With the deliriously eccentric Byrne as ringleader (pausing mid-concert to emerge in his now-legendary oversized suit), this circus of musical pleasure defies the futility of reductive description; it begs to be experienced, felt in the heart, head, and bones, and held there the way we hold on to cherished memories. On those three nights in December 1983, Talking Heads gave love, life, and joy in generous amounts that years cannot erode, and Demme captured this act of creative goodwill on film with minimalist artistic perfection. Stop Making Sense is an invitation to pleasure that will never wear out its welcome. --Jeff Shannon

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