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Stop Making Sense
Directed by Jonathan Demme
A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals. From TMDB
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Stop Making Sense is a 1984 documentary music film, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth.
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60 of 246 · most liked first“Stop Making Sense” turns 42 today. Of his performance, David Byrne said: “You see this person in the beginning [of the film] who's kind of angsty, stumbling around .. And then, by the end, he's surrendered to the music and is fairly joyful .. He’s found a kind of community." 🙏🏼 “Slippery People”
neutral · AI labelView post →ACTUALLY in college the head of the film society once let me program a double feature for a Saturday night, I chose Heathers and Stop Making Sense
positive · AI labelView post →Thank god Fred Armisen got stuck working in Ireland bc I got to fill in last night moderating the Q&A after the 4K 40th anniversary showing of Stop Making Sense at the Pantages, the theater where the movie was shot in 1984. I saw the Speaking in Tongues tour twice, so truly a thrill of a lifetime.
positive · AI labelView post →Stop Making Sense is the greatest concert movie ever made. It’s an incredible journey by a band at their peak, having perfected this show over a grueling touring schedule powered by the cocaine equivalent of the GDP of a small nation.
positive · AI labelView post →Stop Making Sense is a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →#MusicHistory On this day 1984, Talking Heads released Stop Making Sense, the landmark live album & soundtrack to Jonathan Demme’s concert film of the same name, recorded over three nights at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood in December 1983. It is one of the band's most successful releases.
neutral · AI labelView post →Forget everything you thought you knew about Elvis. The new film EPIC is one of the greatest concert films ever made. Up there with Stop Making Sense and Last Waltz. It captures Elvis at the top of his game. This is an out of control freight train of energy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s_d...
neutral · AI labelView post →watched the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense yesterday. what an incredible band, what an incredible film.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm not that big a Talking Heads fan, don't listen to them much, but I have watched Stop Making Sense like a dozen times because watching performance isn't the same as listening to a song and it's just such a beautiful film of a great and inventive performance.
positive · AI labelView post →What’s your favorite movie from every decade of your life 80s: Stop Making Sense 90s: Dark City 00s: American Psycho 10s: Shrek Retold 20s: The People’s Joker
positive · AI labelView post →In honour of Jonathan Demme’s birthday, heres one of the greatest songs ever from the best concert film ever, Stop Making Sense. An immediate sonic endorphin high. youtu.be/nP8JhOSps_0?...
neutral · AI labelView post →My tattoo artist asked the other day if I was ready to have to spend the rest of my life explaining why I had a lamp tattoo, and I’m like, I’m always looking for a reason to talk about the 1984 concert film, Stop Making Sense. I always have that in the chamber.
positive · AI labelView post →#nowplaying #vinyl Talking Heads — ‘Stop Making Sense’ My partner has had this record since she was a kid. Neither of us has seen the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add STOP MAKING SENSE to the "why did I wait so long to watch that movie?" file. I'm still stunned.
positive · AI labelView post →#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge 20>1 Year: 1984🥳🎉 THIS COUNTS! Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense" concert film was released in 1984, showcasing a live version of my favorite song of theirs, from 1979's Fear of Music LP. Live version is my preferred. IT COUNTS!🙂 "Heaven" youtu.be/YuSsCRUXGOU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →The best part of Stop Making Sense didn't actualy make it into the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched the movie of Stop Making Sense and one thing I didn't realize is that the big suit is just a bigger version of the outfit he's wearing for the rest of the show. Going offstage after 90% of the show and coming back wearing a bigger version of the same outfit is an incredible bit
positive · AI labelView post →I went to see the Stop Making Sense re-release in IMAX a couple of years ago. An audience member (who didn’t look any younger than 60) danced up and down the stairs the whole movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky Stop Making Sense (1984) Casino Royale (2006) This Is Not A Film (2011) Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched Stop Making Sense for the first time. Never been exposed to much Talking Heads besides the super famous tunes but that concert film is an all-timer. Knocked my socks off.
positive · AI labelView post →#WorldAtoZ Songs about places Free Choice This Must be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads (live form Stop Making Sense concert movie) Home… youtu.be/nP8JhOSps_0?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw the restored Stop Making Sense twice in theatres and I teared up during the Genius of Love sequence which used to get knocked when the movie was new (“this is so Byrne has time to get in the big suit”) but this song casts such a long shadow on the future of pop music youtu.be/XIW4skg3Ceo
positive · AI labelView post →Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense The soundtrack to the best concert film and contains all their best tunes.
positive · AI labelView post →18. TALKING HEADS ALBUM RANKINGS Stop Making Sense The soundtrack to the best rock concert film ever made shines even without the visuals. The definitive version of lots of these songs, thanks primarily to the presence of late keyboard genius Bernie Worrell who makes them into a genuine funk act.
positive · AI labelView post →#1983AlbumsTop20 1. I saw Talking Heads the year this album came out—the tour that became the film Stop Making Sense. My friends & I left the University of Kentucky venue drenched from so much dancing. Unforgettable! This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) youtu.be/_aNQFcNNnrE?si…
positive · AI labelView post →Stop Making Sense is a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →(Patting the 1983 Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense) you can do so much disassociating to this bad boy
positive · AI labelView post →@sfojoe415.bsky.social and I went to see Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense in IMAX, and it was glorious. Yes, we wore full leather.
positive · AI labelView post →Stop Making Sense is the greatest concert film ever made because you watch it and go "no one in history has ever had as much fun as these people are having," and mean it completely
positive · AI labelView post →It is @cheekface.bsky.social Day on my feed, so I'm imploring everyone to get on board: "When I first heard and saw Cheekface, with the band’s rhythmic pop and joyful, funny stage presence, it echoed back to the first time I heard and saw Talking Heads in the 1984 concert film 'Stop Making Sense.'"
neutral · AI labelView post →"Stop Making Sense" (1984) Director Jonathan Demme captures the frantic energy and artsy groove of Talking Heads at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in 1983. Superb concert film on SBS On Demand. 🎶 🎥 #music #film #TalkingHeads #StopMakingSense #SBSonDemand www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...
neutral · AI labelView post →Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads is the greatest concert movie of all time. Full stop, not up for debate.
positive · AI labelView post →I watched Jonathan Demme's film Stop Making Sense the other night. I had been hoping to get an in-depth, documentarian look at the concert process but mostly it was just a load of talking heads
negative · AI labelView post →I wrote about Taylor Swift, Stop Making Sense, and the future of movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite movie? Easy: Stop Making Sense with descriptive audio on
positive · AI labelView post →In another news, I'm elevated, and about to have a movie date (Stop Making Sense, which is the GOAT, with the lovely @damnitjanet.bsky.social who is not a goat but maybe some sort of forest creature) either way I'm the luckiest unless you count much of anything else 😉
positive · AI labelView post →#ACenturyOfCinema 29. Stop Making Sense (1984) (Normally I'd use the proper film poster to illustrate these posts, but goddamn if this one from presumably Ghana or Nigeria isn't too special not to use it instead)
neutral · AI labelView post →I was lucky enough to be there one of the days they shot the movie “Stop Making Sense”. The Pantages theater was a small venue with great seat for all.
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in 1984, Talking Heads released the live album “Stop Making Sense” - soundtrack to the film of the same name.
neutral · AI labelView post →#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched Been too busy with the World Cup! Stop Making Sense - my favourite movie of all time Pokémon - showing my kids the movies of my childhood Idiocracy - a strangely ugly looking film but the satire still bites Hoppers - funniest Pixar movie in a while
positive · AI labelView post →Best non-Philly present: A print of this Ghanaian movie poster for STOP MAKING SENSE
neutral · AI labelView post →In addition to being the best concert film of all time, Stop Making Sense is a shockingly effective workout video. If you follow along with David Byrne you'll lose twenty pounds in a week and then die.
positive · AI labelView post →If you’re looking for an excellent way to end an evening with your girlfriends, may I recommend the incredible joy that vibrates off the screen when watching Stop Making Sense? It’s “just” a Talking Heads concert film, but BELIEVE ME when I say there’s a reason it has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
positive · AI labelView post →Talking Heads' concert film 'Stop Making Sense' premiered in US theaters 41 years ago on October 19, 1984 | Listen to the soundtrack + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/stopmakingse...
neutral · AI labelView post →#Podcast: #WatchWithJen - S7: E15 - Early Jonathan Demme with Mike Miley Film scholar & author @mikemiley.bsky.social returns to discuss the life & career of the director, plus the films STOP MAKING SENSE, SOMETHING WILD, & MARRIED TO THE MOB. Available Everywhere www.patreon.com/FilmIntuitio...
neutral · AI labelView post →Movies I have watched in 2026: My Neighbor Totoro Stop Making Sense Knives out 28 years later 28 years later the Bone Temple Pretty good movie-watching year so far
positive · AI labelView post →Glenn Erickson of CineSavant asserts that the joyous Spike Lee concert film David Byrne's American Utopia is just as energizing as Stop Making Sense. The movie is now out in a @criterion.bsky.social 4K: trailersfromhell.com/david-byrnes...
neutral · AI labelView post →Excuse me, sir, do you have time to talk about my lord and savior, the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense by the Talking Heads?
positive · AI labelView post →The first time I saw Stop Making Sense (the Talking Heads concert) was via a Korean bootleg. And for over a decade, I thought it was a black and white movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Stop Making Sense released 40 years ago. It’s so dominant of its genre. There is no concert film as pure cinema that stands close. You might never have heard a single Talking Heads tune and this film would still knock you out. What’s the second best concert film? #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →"Stop Making Sense" is a great concert film because you get the feeling of being blown away by the state of the art showmanship and special effects, but when you sit and think about it, the special effects were, like, "David Byrne put on glasses"
positive · AI labelView post →I saw Stop Making Sense, the Talking Heads concert movie today and I’m still buzzing from it!
positive · AI labelView post →"Stop Making Sense" is an extremely horny movie, but David Byrne is kind of sweetly autistic, the rhythm section is married, Jerry Harrison was a Modern Lover so it feels oddly wholesome. But make no mistake, this was music for nerds to fuck to.
positive · AI labelView post →‘Stop Making Sense’ Talks Up $800k Weekend, $1.4M Cume As 1984 Concert Film Draws Young Crowd
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night, we @goodfood.kitchen went to see the remastered version of the Talking Heads movie, "Stop Making Sense." The soundtrack has been enhanced, and the video upgraded to 4K quality. The footage of the Tom Tom Club performing "Genius of Love" alongside the Talking Heads band, is brilliant.
positive · AI labelView post →A friend and I saw Stop Making Sense in the theater and it is the only time during a film I (we) ever hopped up and began dancing in the aisle. Usually that's only for live concerts lol.
positive · AI labelView post →Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads was at a showing of Stop Making Sense (in 1984) at the movie theater where I was the projectionist. I was too shy to go say hello.
neutral · AI labelView post →Talking Heads reunited for a screening of Stop Making Sense at the Toronto International Film Festival #TalkingHeads #TIFF23 #TIFF #StopMakingSense
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 3 - KC V2 Despite their legendary status, Talking Heads only cracked the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 once in their career with BDTH in '83. It pushed Speaking in Tongues to platinum smash status, and went on to become the fiery centerpiece of their legendary 1984 concert film, Stop Making Sense.
neutral · AI labelView post →Got to watch Stop Making Sense in IMAX for the second time tonight. Still gives me goosebumps.
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