Review of Stop Making Sense (1984) by Thérèse F — 21 May 2008
Best concert film I've seen. The Talking Heads is a band of a bunch of art school students, and it shows here, with a performance that's almost more of a performing art than a rock concert, but with all the energy of a rock show.
David Byrne's skills as a frontman are masterful, and his hypnotically quirky style of performance is truly his own. Many of the individual performances are more visually inventive than most full-blown MTV-style music videos, and Demme never tries to flaunt the hype surrounding the performance with distracting cuts to shots of a raving audience (at least not until the very end.
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This review of Stop Making Sense (1984) was written by Thérèse F on 21 May 2008.
Stop Making Sense has generally received very positive reviews.
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