Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant

Name: Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
Genre: Music
Released: 1988-04-13
Duration: 66 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, Lynn Mabry

1988·Music·1h 6m

7.1

★

A compilation of the music videos produced by the band Talking Heads, interspersed with various everyday people telling anecdotes about their lives.

Directed by David Byrne and Toni Basil and Jim Blashfield and Jim Jarmusch and Ted Bafaloukos

rock band

post-punk

new wave

IMDB

N/A

Cast

David Byrne

Self

Tina Weymouth

Self

Jerry Harrison

Self

Chris Frantz

Self

Lynn Mabry

Self

Ednah Holt

Self

Bernie Worrell

Self

John Goodman

Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")

Crew

David Byrne

Director

Toni Basil

Director

Jim Jarmusch

Director

David Byrne

Writer

Popular Reviews

6 reviews

Innes

9.0★ · 04/30/26

I always love that they put road to nowhere as the final song in whatever their doing, its a perfect closing song. Thinking about it road to nowhere is probably their best song in general, yeh it's definitely their best actually.

Ray

7.0★ · 03/30/26

would’ve watched this in my beautiful house, with my beautiful wife, but THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL HOUSE. THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE.

Noah

8.2★ · 07/23/24

It’s obviously gonna be good, was shocked to see a Jarmusch credit here though

Lily Cimerman

9.1★ · 05/02/25

Ethan Parker

9.0★ · 06/23/24