Stop Making Sense

ICONIC! Regarded as the greatest film concert of all time and I can for sure back that! The things I would do to go watch talking heads live or even be in the audience. I fucking loved it! Beaming! I can’t put to words the pleasure this film brought me, saw it in imax as well and it’s just the best place to watch anything I think, I found it so interesting to watch a film that was not purpose made for iMax, something about it being blown up that big and it’s just as amazing and yes that suit was huge! It’s not a narrative based thing like you are at end of day watching a gig but it just works on the big screen cause it’s just pure electricity,why I think it works so well is because for one it’s presentation is so clean, so deliberate, focused and just so sharp, if you listen to the lyrics they are very precise, they are their own thing! But the genius of this is that what demme has been able to do is render cinematically almost the equivalent, he’s been able to take a live concert in short is chaotic and all over the place but throughout great cinematic language he’s cut threw the noise and gives you such a sharp amplified musical experience! Visually it’s incredible, in the beginning it’s pretty much a unmade stage and with every diffrent number a band member will join David Byrne on the stage, in the background little by little there just building the set and by the first 6 songs the stage is being built around you, there’s this kind of narrative feel to it, in terms of stage design & concert design it’s most likely taken for granted now but seeing it in a 40 year old movie is just really interesting! Everyone was dressed in very simple grey clothing which just gives it great focus, then when you shot that right down the middle and you have very precise lighting, very precise shadows, deliberate spacing of people it makes just fantastic visual frames, it’s just so clean for a concert! You associate concerts to not be like that at all, what he also does is great eye for moments of humour & fun, the interactions between the band members are just so incredibly infectious! It’s just all done in a very very impressive way and as an aesthetic approach to making a film about music it’s really interesting. If your a fan of music it’s obviously going to appeal to you but also if your a fan of music, cinema and theatre it’ll 100% be for you! Just such an immersive experience! “Burning down the house” being played through those speakers is just one of the best experiences ever, almost just pause and rewind to live it all again. Bravo