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Few movies are as electric to see in a theater as a concert film, which is generally designed to make you want to sing along and dance. Stop Making Sense, 1984’s Talking Heads film by Oscar winner Jonathan Demme, is the pinnacle of this: Stories about audiences jumping into the aisles to groove along to hits like “Burning Down the House” and “Life During Wartime” have followed the film for the last 39 years.
If you haven’t had the pleasure to be one of those thoroughly entertained viewers during the film’s repeated repertory screenings over the years—I’ve been fortunate enough to watch it on the big screen twice myself—you’ll get your biggest chance yet this year. A24, the distributor behind recent Oscar hit Everything Everywhere All at Once and other acclaimed indie fare, has acquired Stop Making Sense. To celebrate, it plans to give the film a 4K-remastered, worldwide theatrical release later this year.
The news came with the most suitable (ha ha ha!) trailer possible: Talking Heads frontman David Byrne celebrating the film’s big re-release with a trip to the dry cleaners. He’s had his most-famous costume from Stop Making Sense waiting for him there since the mid-’80s, and he can’t wait to take it home and try it back on.
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