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40 years ago, “Stop Making Sense” was released in the movies and was going to change the story of concert films forever! This feature film staged by Jonathan Demme (“Le Silence des Lambés”) comes out in theaters and it is inevitable!
What is it talking about?
December 1983, Theater Pantes in Hollywood. David Byrne, leader of the Talking Heads, advances on an empty scene, launches an audio cassette and begins a bewitching version of the famous Psycho Killer. The members of the group arrive on stage one by one, with each new song, to create one of the most legendary concerts in the history of rock.
For 40 years, a particular aura surrounds this film, which is still too little known: Stop Making Sense, which have it owed to the big and regretted director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lamb, Philadelphia …). Good news, we can finally appreciate this film in the best conditions since it comes out in the cinema for the 40th anniversary of its initial French release!
Talking Heads and its collection of tubes including Psycho Killer
It is a very special feature film that offers us to follow a concert from the Talking Heads group from start to finish and its collection of tubes (Psycho Killer, Burning Down the House …). The very special staging of the group and the director make it a cinematographic object to no other. We are in immersion and captivated by the musical ingenuity of the group, both very simple and so inventive. For many, Stop Making Sense is simply considered the best concert film of all time!
A cult group in pop culture
Between Talkings Heads and the cinema (and the series), it is also a long love story. There are no longer the films and series that offer musical extracts from this group. As later at Cannes, last May, Psycho Killer accompanied the credits of the new long -awaited film by Rebecca Zlotowski, with Jodie Foster and Virginie Efira, Private Vie. Very recently, it is downright a new clip (produced by Mike Mills) with Saoirse Ronan who was imagined to accompany this timeless tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ54EIMZ88W
Still in Cannes, 14 years ago, it was the film This must be the place of Paolo Sorrentino which put David byrne and his group in full screen for a tribute scene to Stop Making Sense. Even the Simpsons staged its iconic singer and his famous extra large pants in an episode.
In short, you will understand, Talking Heads is fully part of pop culture and stop Making Sens has helped create this myth around the group! Stop Making Sense came out in theaters this Wednesday, June 18. An ideal way to celebrate music this weekend.
