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STOP MAKING SENSE

Over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, filmmaker Jonathan Demme joined creative forces with cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth and Talking Heads... and miracles occurred. Following a staging concept by singer-guitarist David Byrne, this euphoric concert film transcends that all-too-limited genre to become the greatest film of its kind. A guaranteed cure for anyone's blues, it's a celebration of music that never grows old, fueled by the polyrhythmic pop-funk precision that was a Talking Heads trademark, and lit from within by the geeky supernova that is David Byrne.

"Seeing the movie is like going to an austere orgy—which turns out to be just what you wanted. …[I]n its own terms, the movie is close to perfection."
— Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

"There's so much to look at in Stop Making Sense that it really isn't a bad idea to see it twice: once to try to take in the marvelous spectacle of the whole, and once just for Byrne.."
— The New York Times

"Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads concert film, Stop Making Sense, is one of those miracle movies, a picture that seems to have come together by laws unto itself."
— Salon.com