Stop Making Sense

...Heads Jerry Harrison & Chris Frantz This year being the 25th anniversary of the release of the Talking Heads' concert classic Stop Making Sense, a new Blu-ray version of the Jonathan Demme-directed flick was prepared that includes a...

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...there, and I fire up the plasma screen and the BluRay player and put on the appropriate wake-up call, the brand-new BluRay release of "Stop Making Sense" from Palm Pictures. This will be my second time watching in the three days since Palm...

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...slammed shut. But you can't beat the energy, or Kowalski's hilarious use of singalong lyrics onscreen because the audio was so bad. Stop Making Sense (1984): All you really need is the music. That was the philosophy behind this...

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...edition Blu-Ray form on Tuesday. The rerelease serves as another relic (like we needed one) of Talking Heads' immortality. Watching Stop Making Sense for the first time is like watching your firstborn come into the world (I hope so at...

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However, based on the pilot, it isn't particularly fresh or inventive. … Wow, I say! Beyond containing a song about showrunners, "Stop Making Sense" has nothing to do with TV, but I was sent a copy of its Blu-ray edition (hitting shelves...

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...and latecomers alike a chance to answer a question that's been burning down the house: Is Stop Making Sense the greatest concert film ever? Stop Making Sense caught Talking Heads at the apex of its second life, guitarist Jerry Harrison...

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...also the first indicators that Byrne was bypassing the rest of the group to focus on his own ideas and image. In fact, it's easy to see Stop Making Sense as one man's attempt to exorcise his celebrity demons while searching for his true...

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...$20.98) comes with a new documentary and commentary, while the 25th anniversary Blu-ray edition of the Talking Heads concert doc, "Stop Making Sense," (unrated, $34.99) includes unreleased footage of the band. As for small-screen releases,...

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...at the LA Times, and here's a post at bluraywire about the disc set. THE Talking Heads . . . is that sort of like THE Eagles? I saw Stop Making Sense at the theater when I was in high school and while it didn't change my life the way that,...

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...Last Waltz, The Other Side of the Mirror. And perhaps the best of the lot, Jonathan Demme's stylish, energetic, and electric concert film, Stop Making Sense, with the alt rock group Talking Heads (David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and...

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