Stop Making Sense 👔
Today's movie is a concert documentary streaming on Prime Video
🎤 Happy Thursday! I hope you’ve been having a really nice day today. Don’t forget you can see every single movie I’ve recommended right here.
Today’s recommendation is for Stop Making Sense (1984), streaming on Prime Video and The Criterion Channel. This Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) directed concert documentary featuring the Talking Heads has been hailed as one of the best, if not the best, of the genre.
Directed by Jonathan Demme // ⏱ 88 mins // 🎭 Concert Documentary
Here’s what it’s about:
Over four nights at the Pantages Theater in 1983 Jonathan Demme captured the Talking Heads’ performance during their tour to promote the album Speaking in Tongues. [Trailer]
Why you should watch it:
While Jonathan Demme will always be remembered for his seminal psychological horror masterpiece The Silence of the Lambs, his work on concert films makes up a large portion of his filmography. It’s unsurprising considering his narrative work even has the kind rhythm that you’d expect from a music documentary. However, Speaking in Tongues is exceptional purely on the merits of the band’s performance, in particular lead vocalist David Byrne.
The enigmatic lead singer bursts with energy when he’s on stage — quite literally running circles around his bandmates. However, it’s the build to that burst that makes Stop Making Sense a masterpiece of a concert documentary. As the band joins Byrne on stage, the tension builds until the stage lights up with electricity. It’s the perfect movie to watch in the background while working from home — but watch it through first.
📺 Buy or Rent: Prime Video | iTunes | YouTube
One trailer you should watchPeninsula 🧟♂️
It wasn’t until I saw the trailer for Yeon Sang-ho’s Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula that I realized we haven’t seen a major trailer debut in almost a month. It was an odd moment of comfort. Peninsula takes place four years after Yeon’s 2016 action-horror hit Train to Busan. The sequel finds the Korean peninsula unrecognizable and overrun by zombies as a crew is sent in to retrieve something for the government.
Tonally, the movie ups the original’s tension-filled action setpieces and applies them to a larger scale. Yeon cited George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road as an inspiration and vowed to deliver a Hollywood-level blockbuster. If this trailer is any indication, he might have succeeded.
Directed by Yeon Sang-ho // Year 2020 // Genre Action-Horror
Have a great weekend! Don’t forget to check in on each other. Asking someone how they’re doing means more than you think.
See you Monday —
Karl (@karl_delo)