Stop Making Sense
by Jonathan Demme
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Actor: Alex Weir, Bernie Worrell, Ednah Holt, Lynn Mabry, Steven ScalesDirector: Jonathan Demme
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: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
DVD Reviews of Stop Making Sense
DVD Review: A timeless classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This was great when it was released in the 80's and continues to hold up today. This "low tech" concert manages to entertain with the simplist of props. If you have teenage/college kids that enjoy music, do yourself and them a favor and share this with them. Now my kids...(and their freinds) can't get enough of the Talking Heads. DVD Review: Truly a Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not the biggest of Talking Heads fans, but I do like much of their work. Yet, this is the one Talking Heads video or album you must have. The concert is really cool and I love when David Byrne(sp?) leaves the stage to the remaining members of his band to do a few as the Tom Tom Club. If you need pyrotechnics and laser lighting to enjoy a show...this is not for you. But, if you appreciate an artist and want to see his interpretation of his music.....here it is. I have given this one as gifts to those that wouldn't buy it themselves. They have always been glad to have it in their collection.DVD Review: gotta see it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this for a friend who is a serious Talking Heads fan. I wasn't. They watched this video so many times and raved about it so much, that I decided to watch it with them one night. I was amazed. It is the best Music video I've ever seen. You won't be able to stay in your seat with this one.
Talking Heads Fan now too!
DVD Review: Good show, but not their best tour
Summary: 4 Stars
I wish someone could have filmed a performance from the Remain in Light tour, which was much stronger than the Stop Making Sense tour. The latter does lend itself well to filmed performance, and this is a great film nonetheless. I saw both tours, and the energy and songs on the Remain in Light tour were far better.DVD Review: Great songs, great sound...
Summary: 5 Stars
For the music alone this is worth the price. Lively and fun mix of many of the best Talking Heads songs. The video adds extra interest and fun. There are three formats (stereo, and two 5.1 mixes).
Description of Stop Making Sense
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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