STOP MAKING SENSE 4K RESTORATION Movie Review | Talking Heads | Jonathan Demme

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A movie from 1984 is one of the best of 2023 with A24's dazzling 4K restoration of "Stop Making Sense." Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads concert film is widely considered the best of its kind, and it's an especially joyous experience if you can catch it in IMAX. Alonso and Christy had a blast and couldn't wait to talk about it with you. Featuring David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison. In IMAX theaters now, opening wide Sept. 29.
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@HoboraMax Год назад

I can't describe the happiness I feel from watching this film. Top 3 all-time, easily for me. It's an ode to the joy of making art, and it's just a pure shot of oddball passion. I love this film so damn much, and am BEYOND thrilled I finally get to see it on the big screen!! Thank you both so much for reviewing it, too! (Now I'm just waiting for the "Something Wild" IMAX remaster 👀)

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

So glad it means as much to you as it does to us! We rewatched Something Wild the other day and were wowed all over again by the mastery of tonal shifts, the subtle way it's edited. -- Christy

@edfagan4251 Год назад

'Back in the Day' made my parents drive me to the closest theater showing this (3.5 hour round trip) as a belated birthday gift. On the way there it was nonstop complaining about the poor weather and long drive--on the way back it was nonstop discussion about how great the performance was. Talking Heads were my favorite band in the '80s and this film experience cemented that.

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

That is an amazing, thanks so much for sharing it. Your parents sound cool.

@thefilmseeker Год назад

The movie that single-handedly made me a Talking Heads fan. Easily the best concert movie ever made; David Byrne is an absolute maniac and a treasure!

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

Totally -- he's working so hard here, you can really see the sweat flying off him in IMAX. Hope you can check it out in the theater!

@thefilmseeker Год назад

@@BreakfastAllDay I did last week for the TIFF nationwide event! Which is good because the "wide" IMAX rollout didn't come here this week...

@BottleConcreteBlond Год назад

I'm so excited for this! Can't wait to see it in IMAX!

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

Only a few days left!

@justinthejames Год назад

Had so much fun rewatching this one! David Byrne's "True Stories" (1986) is another one of my favourite movies of all time!

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

That is a great one too! So strange in a particularly David Byrne kind of way. Shot by Ed Lachman who also was the d.p. on EL CONDE, which we reviewed recently.

@ThomasKirby-ub4vy Год назад

What I love about the concert is how very subtlety the stage fills up but it’s never drawing attention to it which is great hardly any establishing shots of people coming out it makes you take notice of it like “how did we get here?” (No pun intended with the once in lifetime song) lol but yeah the fact that the camera is so up close and personal when it DOES zoom out ur like what the hell lol

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

It’s mesmerizing, right? And that first cut in Once in a Lifetime after holding on a single take of David Byrne for so long is jaw-dropping.

@dthill96 Год назад

5/5 one of the greatest 🎥s I’ve ever seen. The near 40 year old footage looks like it was shot yesterday. The energy from seeing them all live just shoots into the audience. My fingers and feet were tapping along the whole time. Not a huge talking heads fan but always been a giant fan of “once in a lifetime”.

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

Wasn't this a glorious restoration? Glad you loved it too.

@ZPHammill Год назад

I’m so glad you reviewed this! I saw it in a movie theater last night. And my favorite performance is Slippery People. Talk about unabashed Joy! It’s been fun sharing clips of this movie with my kids, and they can’t believe how energetic they are (jogging in place tirelessly, while playing instruments perfectly)! Thank you for reviewing this again!

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

You're doing parenting right! Thanks for checking out our review.

@adamJKpunk Год назад

I love this. This movie is like, unbelievable. I wish that Jonathan would have been able to shoot Nirvana’s 93 tour the same way. Dammit.

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

Truly! Gone too soon. Such an eclectic filmography and so many greats.

@trevorevansyoung Год назад

@@BreakfastAllDay can you guys review Something Wild or Married to the Mob :) retro Demme!

@theenglishman3368 11 месяцев назад

It's not "like" unbelievable at all - good grief

@raisedonpopcornwithgrant9670 Год назад

saw it last night in IMAX!!! like seeing it again for the first time!!! thanks a24!!!

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

Completely. So glad you loved it too!

@MattB0610 Год назад

My imax theater is splitting between the new re release of Barbie and this, this weekend. I will now be seeing both! I have nothing invested in the Talking Heads but I will take your word for it!

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

That sounds like an incredible weekend! Hope you love Talking Heads.

@MattB0610 Год назад

@@BreakfastAllDayit was fabulous! So much energy and so much joy. Lots of songs that I knew that I hadn’t realized were their songs. Thanks for the recommendation as always!

@eweb4949 11 месяцев назад

Love the idea of its being a "desert island movie" -- that's a great way to put it. : )

@Wilson.katie815 Год назад

I love the version of “Take Me to the River” in this movie. Have the digital copy and album. Would love to see this in IMAX. I’ll try to see it this week.

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

It’s mesmerizing, right? Hope you find time to catch it!

@GarryMortimerCook Год назад

Just got back from IMAX seeing it..A-Maze-ing Do catch it if you can you'll be glad you did! I just cant believe I never saw it before having loved the Heads ever since Buildings on Fire's release in UK...

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

So happy for you!

@Mr3Submarine Год назад

So, how to explain why this particular concert film, now 40 years old, has endured so well? After all, some would say, it’s just a concert film. Just some band playing a concert, and somebody switched on a camera and captured it. Well, several things: 1. Talking Heads were (and are) a *great* band, and they have a great arsenal of top-notch songs, played to absolute perfection in this concert film by David Byrne and company. 2. They put on one helluva show! I suppose Talking Heads could’ve just stood stationary at their microphones and played, but that just would’ve been so boring. Instead, they put on a *show*, with some really cool theatrics and lots of high-octane energy. So energetic, it had Byrne doing laps around the stage! But that’s not to imply that Talking Heads were “The David Byrne Band.” Everybody on that stage with Byrne are rocking right along with him with everything they got, and the band’s energy is absolutely contagious. 3. The film was beautifully shot. Jonathan Demme made the right choice to keep the cameras focused on the band, rather than constantly cutting to shots of the audience (who basically only appear at the end, really). This makes “Stop Making Sense” all the more immersive for the viewer, a real “You are there” feel to this concert film. I watched “Stop Making Sense” at my local theatre earlier today, and was floored by how great the new remastered print of the film looks and sounds. And of course, I was also floored by the band’s outstanding performance. As someone who never had the good fortune to see Talking Heads live back in the day, their “Stop Making Sense” concert film gave me that experience in full. Great band, great concert film. 😊👍

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

Thanks for your very thoughtful insights! So glad you enjoyed it all over again.

@eweb4949 11 месяцев назад

Totally agree. You sum it up well. I saw it once. Want to see it again.

@jasoncarrick5461 Год назад

I love the transitions into the ad reads. Psycho Killer is my fave song by them but I don't know much about them other than they were very original which is always a good thing.

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

Thank you! And it's true, no one sounded like Talking Heads.

@bigideas3 Год назад

I just found out my closest IMAX is showing it once a day until Tuesday but it is saying all are Sold Out, and even all 3 daily showings of Barbie. I wonder if that is true or if the projectors went down or something. I've never seen something like that. It is sad that the band never played live after that, so there are no live TH versions of the songs from the last 3 albums.

@danbrown9423 Год назад

It may not be the best concert on film (although it's certainly in the running), but it's pretty inarguably the best film of a concert. I can't think of another concert film that has cinematography that is as striking as this. And somehow those shots enhance the impact of the music and sense of actually watching it live rather than adding a layer of artifice. And all of that goes doubly for this IMAX release. My fiancée and I saw it on opening night (1st time for her) and it was a borderline religious experience.

@jmason61 Год назад

...the OG film played at an artsy/grungy place outside of NYC in 83. showed it every day for not much $ & the rules were LOOSE inside....as in you could smoke & drink it was a party everytime

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

But ... this ain't no party ... this ain't no disco ...

@trevorevansyoung Год назад

i agree with the opinion that this is the best concert movie ever made (yet!). there are others I love, and some have different degrees of concert footage vs documentary footage (Gimme Shelter is more Doc, Woodstock is kind of both, Last Waltz is like a giant party of icons, Tourfilm is an amazing retrospective of REM's 80s career, Sonic youth's 1991 the year punk broke is more accurately the year "grunge" broke and a great look at that era, Tribe Called Quest's Beat's Ryhtmes and Life, list goes on.) But yes the way Demme directs this and the way Bryne and company have everything planned out is so seamless nothing really comes close. TH is not my favorite band, but i am obsessed with their first 5 albums as most people are i suppose that give them a fair listen. One reason this Film is so important is it gives new life to the songs from Speaking in Tongues, an album with a bunch of killer songs but AWFUL production in my opinion. It was the band's first attempt to self produce after Eno left, and it shows. Either way, Stop Making Sense brings to life all songs displayed from that record in killer live versions, as well as Bryne's solo "what a day that It Was" from his Catherine Wheel album and Tom Tom's club's "Genius of Love" and shows that sense of camaraderie that the band displayed at that point, despite some friction (that exists in all band's 😊 As a musician, it constantly influences me to attempt new things. Lastly the way the band showcases their “hits” along side their “album tracks” is maybe the most important thing; they find a balance between crowd pleasing (“Burning Down the House”, “Once in a Life Time”, “Life During Wartime”) and boundary pushing (“Swamp”, “Thank You for Sending Me and Angel”, “Cross-eyed and Painless”) that is extremely difficult to pull off live.

@lonwolf8245 11 месяцев назад

Saw this week on big screen!!! What a great Concert Film!!! OMG!!!! I want a Big Suit to be buried in!!!!

@BreakfastAllDay 11 месяцев назад

So glad you had fun too!

@michaelgrife6964 Год назад

I am going to it, if it shows up in Seattle. Thank you, you lovely souls.

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

Please do! You'll love it.

@post2033 Год назад

I loved American Utopia so looking forward to seeing this for the first time. Hoping for a 4K physical media release.

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

You're going to love it so much! Excited for you. American Utopia is great, too, and you can see its origins here in its minimalism and the clever use of a sparse space.

@commandZee Год назад

This movie has eluded me all these years, your review is convincing me to catch it in a theater. Thanks!

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

It is truly a must! Let us know what you think afterward.

@raoulmontefiore4803 Год назад

Just got back from seeing this at The Biscuit Factory in Reading, UK. I'm in complete agreement with you, an absolutely essential cinema visit!

@justinhalloran5182 Год назад

Watched this in college for the first time. Epic

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

It really is!

@994pt4 6 месяцев назад

Sick!....I want a 4K disc for my screening room!

@lewiscook7493 Год назад

To hear the two of you give this film such glowing praise convinced me to see it and I'm so glad that I did. Watching this for the first time in IMAX was an experience I will never forget and helped me fall in love with this incredible band. Thank you both for this wonderful review!

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

Hooray! Love hearing that. Thanks for the report.

@filmnerd65 Год назад

We’re so looking forward to seeing this on Tuesday, especially after seeing your review of it!

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

Awesome, excited for you guys! You’ll have to let us know what you think afterward.

@filmnerd65 Год назад

Wow! A perfect movie, perfectly presented. It's like going to the holy roller congregation of the Church of the First Wave Nerdgasm! @@BreakfastAllDay

@SAM-MME Год назад

Would this qualify to be in top ten list?

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

Sure, why not?

@SAM-MME Год назад

@@BreakfastAllDay I’m having this debate with my friends. They’re saying it shouldn’t since it was released many years ago. They said if we include it this year then based off that logic they’d be able to include any other rerelease this year for our 2023 lists. I kinda lean towards it not being eligible that way it gives the opportunity for an actual 2023 release to have a chance at a top ten spot. Just my opinion.

@angeladerienzo328 Год назад

I just came home from seeing this movie .I was in my 20s when they popular...I Loved This

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

So glad! Their music is still so great. No one else sounds like them.

@gobears6487 11 месяцев назад

Sophomore year in college, year ahead of you, Alonso. Was SO SO INTO T.H. !!! Need to see this :-) p.s. HOW does she not love Burning Down the House? SO much the best song the Heads did and I like all their albums!

@BreakfastAllDay 11 месяцев назад

It just got so overplayed! But they find a cool new way into it here.

@sethwoodhouse4797 Год назад

So many people jumped up at my screening and started dancing, it was truly a singular experience

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

That is awesome! I took my husband and son to see it again over the weekend and people were dancing in the back row of our IMAX theater. So fun. -- Christy

@DavidN369 Год назад

Not until "Summer of Soul" would a concert document even approach "Stop Making Sense" for dropkicking us into the experience and getting us bopping out of our seat. Have lost count of how many times we've seen it. And re-mastered, in IMAX? oh. Ma. GAH. Thank you, Christy and Alonso. Woohoo, hoorah, hopla.

@BreakfastAllDay Год назад

Only a couple days left for IMAX, so hopefully you can catch it soon! And yes, Summer of Soul is awesome, too.