Stop Making Sense: Think Of It As A Musical, Not A Concert Film | Film Analysis

Описание: In which I explain not only why Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense (1984), starring the band Talking Heads, is the greatest concert film of all time, but also why that particular label – ‘concert film’ – undersells the movie and how we’re better off thinking of as a ‘experimental existential film noir musical’.

No Spoilers. For educational purposes only. Fair use.

Watch the full interviews here:
Jonathan Demme & David Byrne Q&A, Jacob Burns Film Centre:
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David Byrne Q&A, Film Society of Licoln Centre:
   • David Byrne Q&A | Stop Making Sense (Full)  
Jonathan Demme on ‘Stop Making Sense’, Unreel:
   • Jonathan Demme - On Stop Making Sense (200...  
Jonathan Demme in conversation with Paul Thomas Anderson, On-Story Austin Film Festival:
   • On Story: 414 Jonathan Demme and Paul Thom...  

Books Referenced,:
Steenstra, Sytze, 'Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present', Bloomsbury Academic, 2010
Mitoma, Judy (editor), 'Envisoning Dance on Film and Video', Routledge, 2003

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