Talking Heads Takeover TIFF As ‘Stop Making Sense’ Reunion Has Crowds Dancing In The Aisles
deadline.comAt 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.
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