STOP MAKING SENSE — PRESS/REVIEWS |
Blu-ray Discs' Colorful World This disc is a feast for sore ears. Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal, 05.14.10 |
Visual Audio The Talking Heads’ exuberance is infectious, but it wouldn’t count for much if they weren’t playing their instruments with such skill and intensity. The A.V. Club, 12.08.09 |
Stop Making Sense on Bluray ...I was simply overwhelmed and only my natural Catholic inhibitions kept me from dancing in the aisles. Michael Giltz, The Huffington Post, 10.30.09 |
Rocking Heads ...The look of the piece is coffee table book elegance. Freeze any frame and you have an image worth framing. Colin Covert, Star Tribune, 10.13.09 |
How well does the concert film age? ...What struck me as even more impressive a quarter century later — on the 25th anniversary of the film’s 1984 theatrical release — is just how much the Talking Heads gave those of us in the audience to think about, see, hear and feel simultaneously. Randy Lewis, The Los Angeles Times, 10.05.09 |
Stop Making Sense Stop Making Sense is a prime example of the best way to make a perfect concert movie. First, choose as a subject a band that is as attentive to visual matters as it is to its music — and preferably one that comes with sterling critical credentials as well. All Movie Guide, 10.14.04 |
Stop Making Sense 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. It doesn't seem "made." It merely exists, like some inexplicable and wonderful quirk of nature: a redwood, a toad with fabulous markings or something that just mysteriously appeared on a lily pad one day. Salon.com, 09.16.99 |
Three Cheers 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, 11.26.84 |
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Talking Heads in 'Stop Making Sense' From the opening frames of Jonathan Demme's ''Stop Making Sense,'' which opens today at the 57th Street Playhouse, it's apparent that this is a rock concert film that looks and sounds like no other. The New York Times, 10.19.84 |