Talking Heads Takeover TIFF As ‘Stop Making Sense’ Reunion Has Crowds Dancing In The Aisles
12.09.2023 - 05:11
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At a Toronto International Film Festival that saw its wattage dimmed by a SAG-AFTRA strike; it took a Talking Heads reunion at the 40th Anniversary of Stop Making Sense to crank up the festival’s volume to an 11 in Spinal Tap-speak.
The new A24 re-release of the Jonathan Demme concert film, which moderator Spike Lee billed as “the greatest concert film ever,” is a 4K Imax restoration.
And the night literally lived up to the large format exhibitor’s slogan “Watch a movie, or be part of one” as Talking Heads bandmembers David Byrne, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz and Lee himself got up and danced during such numbers as “Burning Down the House” and “Once in a Lifetime” during the screening. Talk about a cinema-surround show.
Stop Making Sense played at Toronto’s Scotiabank auditorium No. 12 –a multi-storied Imax screen that’s on par with the size of the one that’s at Universal Citywalk. If you happen to see Stop Making Sense, see it on the biggest Imax screen possible. Tonight’s screening at TIFF was an Imax live event in 165 locations in North America and BFI Imax in London with all four Talking Heads members including guitarist and keyboardist Jerry Harrison joining in for a post-screening discussion led by Lee. The movie opens exclusively in Imax on Sept. 22 and gets an expansion on Sept. 29.
“While I was watching this tonight, I thought ‘This is why we go to movie theaters. This is different from watching it on my laptop,” beamed Talking Heads frontman and The Last Emperor Oscar winner Byrne.
The band largely spoke about the genesis for the pic; Demme was a huge fan of the band. They too adored him and his work, specifically Melvin & Howard. However, most of all as Byrne put it, their Stop Making Sense tour “seemed
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