Director Jonathan Demme’s 1984 concert movie captured a four-show run of Talking Heads performances in California. It's simply brilliant.
Tina Weymouth, Ednah Holt, Lynn Mabry, David Byrne and Alex Weir in a scene from"Stop Making Sense."
The movie is the finest imaginable version of the Talking Heads’ Speaking in Tongues tour. The concert’s physical staging elements, introduced in pieces and segments, with elegant and wryly suggestive words , create an aura of pristine unease. Sometimes Byrne messes around with a floor lamp, creating distorted shadows on the screen behind the band.
“Stop Making Sense” also is a masterclass in the slow build. First, it’s Byrne, alone, with a boombox, on “Psycho Killer.” Hearing the lyrics again this time, it strikes you: By Byrne’s definition — “tense and nervous,” “can’t relax,” you start a conversation and “you can’t even finish it” — everyone in America is a potential psycho killer, at least on bad days.
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