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100 The most persuasive argument for cocaine usage in the whole entire history of anything and everything. Moves like water, vibrates on its own level of existence.
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A polite man is driven to murder. He becomes a prophet and screams manifestos on love, war, and the increasingly alarming impact of technology and progress. Driven to insanity by his own insights into the human condition, he travels to a river in an attempt to drown himself but instead is baptized and absolved of sin. He dies, crosseyed yet painless. This is the definitive fairytale of my generation, and the moral is “watch out, you might get what you’re after”. Jesus lives, and he’s wearing a giant suit.
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sweat my ass off dancing from “slippery people” on in a big suit at a vidiots screening with the band (inc. ednah holt, lynn mabry, and steve scales) in attendance. lynn and ednah joined us and did laps around the audience. tina weymouth gave me a near empty glass of champagne and said my suit was nice. i took two gummies and drank a grapefruit radler. vidiots cofounder saw me hitting the choreo and asked “how many times have you seen this movie” and i just responded “haha.” writing this entry in case i ever trip and fall into the eternal sunshine machine and forget about it
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A manifesto on how you and your friends (with the help of some instruments, a couple of lights, a few cameras and platforms, a cartoonishly oversized suit and a standard house lamp) can see the face of god. Opens with an anxious man alone in what looks like an abandoned factory hitting play on a tape and within the span of a few songs you are watching a transcendent celebration of pure music and art and collaboration where everyone and everything in its vicinity is possessed by the experimental punk and funk and art rock sounds for 80 minutes including the camera. Byrne’s body movements and vocal performance, Demme’s intense close-ups and stylized lighting, the raw, off-kilter sounds and organic moments between the band members. I can’t believe this was captured on film, and that I hadn’t seen it yet. I will be watching this a million more times.
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ME: oh cool, stop making sense is streaming for free with ads. i’ll put it on while i write 2 SONG LATER: i’m gonna rent it from amazon for a better stream 3 SONGS LATER: [screeching “turn like a wheeel inside a wheeel!” as i tap on my keyboard] 2 SONGS LATER: i can buy it for cheaper on itunes, but i can watch it on my tv if i do google play hmm 3 SONGS LATER: [dancing around the room and banging on chairs w wooden coffee stirrers] 1 SONG LATER: ooh, an email– oh, it’s just the shipping confirmation for the blu-ray. i should turn those off 2 SONGS LATER: [howling JAMES BROOOOOWN! JAMES BROOOOOWN! while i make myself lunch] 2 SONGS LATER: okay okay okAY– calm. i need to sit down and finish this. [i realize my laptop wasn’t plugged in and died 5 songs ago]
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SAME AS IT EVER WAS SAME AS IT EVER WAS SAME AS IT EVER WAS SAME AS IT EVER WAS SAME AS IT EVER WAS SAME AS IT EVER WAS SAME AS IT EVER WAS SAME AS IT EVER WAS SAME AS IT EVER WAS
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The most joyous film ever made. The little moments where David Byrne is trying to perform stone-faced but can’t help but smile could power me for weeks. Nothing makes me feel so exuberant, happy, nostalgic, and full of love as “This Must Be The Place.” It breaks my heart that Talking Heads aren’t friends anymore because more than anything, this movie feels like it works as an ode to/view on their friendship and how they work so perfectly together as performers. I can’t wait to be in a room with my friends again. Hugging them and crying and smiling across the room as we wriggle our stupid, sweaty little limbs around to this movie. Falling in love with all of…
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I will get my hands on David Byrne’s oversized suit. You’re laughing now, but I will get my hands on it.
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I cannot stress it enough how much I love Talking Heads
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광란의 퍼포먼스! 스크린을 뚫고나오는 에너지
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okay… I feel like…. his suit.. it got…. bigger??
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Rewatched at the Hyland. I don’t know how they did it but they captured real magic on that stage. Grabs you from the start and doesn’t let you go for almost 2 hours straight. I was in a trance from slippery people to making flippy floppy. Nothing will ever top this performance ever
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Raf des talking heads mais c’est très fort et David Byrne est habité
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Uma grande comunhão entre banda, cenário, palco, produção e público. A câmera que renova e ressignifica tudo em questão de segundos. Eu não imaginava que um filme-concerto pudesse ter tanta potência. É uma celebração da energia bizarra e charmosa de uma banda tão criativa como o Talking Heads. Nenhum espaço é desperdiçado. A New Wave era um movimento maravilhoso, daqueles me fazem pensar “saudade daquilo que eu nunca vivi”, como qualquer comentário médio no YouTube de um lerdão que diz ter nascido na época errada.
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penso quase que todo dia na performance de life during wartime e slippery people
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missed his show recently. needed to watch this to soak up some david byrne energy 🔋
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It really is that good.
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This rips
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Stop Making Sense when you’re happy. Stop Making Sense when you’re sad. It always feel like the right time to watch. Every time I watch I’m impressed by the set dec, the track list, and the lighting; but this time watching I really loved focusing on how everyone is moving. It feels so naturalistic and freeing to just let your body move how it wants to when it hears music playing. It’s all nonsense and it all makes sense
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had somehow never seen this, despite the CD being the soundtrack of my childhood. folks, we’re burnin down the house
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This is the opposite of a spiritual experience in the best way possible. I’ve never felt so human
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This was a once in a lifetime show if u catch my drift 😼
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god. spectacular
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Eu acho que todo mundo deveria assistir isso pelo menos uma vez na vida, que espetáculo
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Bro was really sillymaxxing up on stage. He even did absolute cinema during once in a lifetime, how did he know? Talking heads pretty good, should listen to them more.
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The siren of David Byrne beckons me back once more to this performance.
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Perfect for the pre-game. Don’t think a white boy has ever hit it as hard as this
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Went to a watch party for this one (hosted by Microplx) where we all were part of a live group chat and had the best time. The energy is electric and I cannot wait to watch again
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In this life you get to choose your flavor of autism. David Lynch or David Byrne. Sometimes I wonder if I wish I should’ve chosen Byrne. Just call me Judy the way I be in the bedroom inventing situations.
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Comentários da Tamys: Nossa, eles são muito Twin Peaks demais. São todos esquisitos, até o cara da luz é esquisito.
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Gorgeous viewing at outdoor cinema in Brighton with lots of boogying!
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Did not want this to end
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Not enough big suits going around these days
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So good, great use of cocaine, all my favorite songs with cool building of the stage as things go along.
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i love david byrne and talking heads but it was outside and people were singing and dancing and clapping and i hated them all, it was a cinema experience doing all that is wrong and i had to block my ears at one point because i couldn’t handle people singing along to it, also i spent the rest of the time contemplating everything ever and highkey nearly cried because i was thinking too much. I really like talking heads and…
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Went to what I thought was a theater screening but they just had it on a TV at a club with a chat sidebar where people were spamming Bob’s Burgers gifs 😔 Inopportune circumstances but I still danced my little white heart out who cares best movie ever Also Crosseyed and Painless 🙊 might be my new favorite 🤯 but don’t tell Slippery People 👀 or Life During Wartime 🤫 that I said that 🙈
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a classic concert movie and one of my favorites. David Byrne is incredible and boundlessly frenetic
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Groovy and warm and sweaty and iconic and suit
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So damn good even a 2nd time. I got a girlfriend’s that better than that!
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I mean, one of the most iconic performances of all time
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Best dance EVER at the outdoor screening!
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Tak na toto sa pozeralo výborne! Skoro celý čas s úsmevom na tvári. :)) Veľmi divadelné, hravé, živé, miestami neohrabane. Do určitého bodu to popri stavaní scény a pridávaní rôznych elementov počas už prebiehajúcej performance krásne gradovalo, následne sa už len jemne striedali jednotlivé polohy na základe hrajúcich trackov. Páčilo sa mi, že každá z nich mala svoje špecifické vizuálne prvky. Pri jednej si moju pozornosť získala hra s tieňmi, pri ďalšej som sa oveľa viac sústredila na mimiku vďaka…
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I thought I didnt know who the Talking Heads were. I definitely did. The suits are silly! But the music is good.
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Never danced to multiple parts of a movie and cried early as hell into the film as well… absolutely sensational enough said.
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Watched On: Blu-ray (A+) I’ll never be able to see Talking Heads in concert. As a consolation prize, I can make do with the greatest concert film ever made.
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this special got 10x better when i got familiar with all the songs
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🎶 Home is where I want to be, but I guess I’m already there / I come home, she lifted up her wings / I guess that this must be the place 🎶 Just an indelible joy. Courses with so much primally infectious energy. That little two-step move Tina Weymouth keeps hitting is groove personified.
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Heaven is a place where you’re dancing with your friends at the outdoor cinema !!
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Whole band walking around undiagnosed
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Watched this at an outdoor cinema & everyone was dancing; closest I’ll ever get to an actual Talking Heads gig, electrifying & awesome. An unforgettable experience!!
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Holy fuck — what a revelation to watch this on 35mm. As soon as David Byrne busts out the boombox with a recording of a Roland TR-808 drum machine for “Psycho Killer”, it immediately tells you this won’t be a regular concert. Really great mix of songs; the little intermission where Tom Tom Club gets to perform remains my favorite moment. A meticulously crafted explosion of art and funk.
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Great concert. I don’t know how to rate live concerts, so I’m just going to leave it as liked for now. The emotions I got from it were precious.
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Good. That’s about the long and short of it for this one, it’s really quite good. I think the only thing stopping me from rating this any higher is simply my propensity for disliking anything non-fiction. But I like Talking Heads and I like Jonathan Demme so it wasn’t that hard to get into. The music’s great, unsurprisingly. David Byrne is a phenomenal front man and commands the screen with a wildly idiosyncratic presence (the things he manages to do…
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@ Edinburgh Filmhouse !!!
- Synopsis
- A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.
- Director
- Jonathan Demme
- Writer
- Jonathan Demme
- Studio
- Talking Heads Films, Arnold Stiefel Company
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English, French
- Year
- 1984
- Runtime
- 88 mins
- USA24 Apr 1984
- Canada11 Sep 2023
- China16 Jun 2024
- Italy19 Oct 2024
- China05 Sep 2025
- Taiwan01 Jan 2026
- Finland16 Nov 1984
- USA15 Sep 1999
- USA22 Sep 2023
- USA02 Oct 2024
- Poland25 Dec 2024
- USA19 Oct 1984
- Denmark16 Nov 1984
- UK26 Nov 1984
- Netherlands04 Apr 1985
- Japan03 Aug 1985
- UK22 Sep 2023
- USA29 Sep 2023
- Netherlands11 Jan 2024
- South Korea13 Aug 2025
- Ireland08 Nov 2014
- UK08 Apr 2024
- USA03 May 2024
- Netherlands05 Oct 2001
- Netherlands01 Jan 2009
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