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Film True Stories (1986)

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Only an artist as epic and outlandish as David Byrne could have made True Stories. The former Talking Heads frontman directs and stars in this Weekly World News-inspired collage, which loosely follows Byrne's unnamed cowboy character as he arrives in a fictional Texan town. Byrne observes the setting's peculiar inhabitants — including John Goodman playing a love-starved country crooner and performance artist Spalding Gray as the town's leader — while frequently breaking down the fourth wall by addressing the audience. With cinematographer Ed Lachman and a soundtrack by Byrne's legendary art-rock quartet, True Stories is a hyperbolic fantasy that parodies tabloid sensationalism and idiosyncratic Americana.

– Chelsea Bauch

Note: A Q&A with David Byrne and Ed Lachman follows the 8:15pm screening.

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