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The Newly Restored Talking Heads Concert Doc Stop Making Sense Is as Exuberant and Wonderful as Ever

Critic Pauline Kael once called it “a continuous rock experience that keeps building, becoming ever more intense and euphoric.”

By Craig D. Lindsey

I still remember stumbling in late to a press screening of Stop Making Sense, arriving right when David Byrne was stumbling around the stage his damn self. It was 1999, and the beloved Talking Heads concert film, directed by Oscar winner Jonathan Demme, was getting a 15th-anniversary re-release...

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