Stop Making Sense (1984)
Directed by Jonathan Demme
A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.
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Thomas Kail, who directed both the Broadway musical and the film, uses techniques pioneered by Jonathan Demme in Stop Making Sense, cutting together footage captured over three nights of shows at the Richard Rogers Theatre in June 2016.
It reminded me of such expert concert films as Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense and Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz.
Demme seems to be a kind and hopeful man who wants to make people feel good — and though, given the choice, I’d rather be watching his more versatile and joyful musical creation, Stop Making Sense, it’s hard to begrudge him the colorful saris, world music, interracial harmony and all.
Not that the man who made Stop Making Sense was ever all that square, but Demme did make his name with small, intimate dramas about friendship and loneliness and the inexorable pull of family ties (Melvin & Howard, Something Wild).
It's as if director Jonathan Demme traded in a plot for time-travel back to his 1984 concert film, Stop Making Sense.
As in Demme's recent Rachel Getting Married , momentum is itself a character in Stop Making Sense.