event Stop Making Sense
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Tue Nov 24
7 pm
None Stop Making Sense at Doc Films - Max Palevsky Cinema
Director Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads' exhilarating Stop Making Sense is unlike any film made before or since (Demme's Storefront Hitchcock excepted), a concert movie that eschews backstage interviews and audience cutaways for the simpler pleasures of watching a band perform at the top of its game. Pop artists both, Demme and Heads frontman David Byrne collaborated on an evolving-stage concept that fuses clever, minimalist performance art with the accumulating narrative force of great cinema. Filmed over three nights at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, Stop Making Sense opens with a white-suited Byrne strolling onto a bare stage with only a tape recorder and an acoustic guitar, and grows into a massive stage spectacular.
Doc Films - Max Palevsky Cinema Ida Noyes Hall - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Director Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads' exhilarating Stop Making Sense is unlike any film made before or since (Demme's Storefront Hitchcock excepted), a concert movie that eschews backstage interviews and audience cutaways for the simpler pleasures of watching a band perform at the top of its game. Pop artists both, Demme and Heads frontman David Byrne collaborated on an evolving-stage concept that fuses clever, minimalist performance art with the accumulating narrative force of great cinema. Filmed over three nights at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, Stop Making Sense opens with a white-suited Byrne strolling onto a bare stage with only a tape recorder and an acoustic guitar, and grows into a massive stage spectacular.
Updated 11/12/2009
