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Film: Documentary Stop Making Sense (1984)

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Long before David Byrne ventured into lush world music, he was a gawky, riveting white boy in an oversized suit, all angles and bravado — a herky-jerky art-rock marionette. The fact that, 20 years later, Talking Heads songs like "Life During Wartime" and "Girlfriend Is Better" are still found in any self-respecting art kid's cassette player testifies to the band's lasting import. Jonathan Demme's hagiographic concert film captures the rapture of the group at its best; armed with three nights' worth of footage and a fanatical eye for detail, the director has constructed not just a prolonged music video, but a powerfully dramatic and ultimately sensible film.

– Joshua Stein

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