Weirdos, rejoice: A24’s re-releasing the greatest concert movie of all time

polygon.com:

In December 1983, the great movie director Jonathan Demme, who went on to make Silence of the Lambs, spent three nights filming the art-rock band Talking Heads at a theater in Los Angeles. He cut the footage together, being careful to preserve the shape of the band’s very theatrical show, and released it as the concert movie Stop Making Sense. Most critics agree it’s the greatest concert film of all time.

Now movie studio A24 has acquired the rights to the 1984 film, and has announced that it will release a 4K restoration of it in theaters later this year.

A24 celebrated the announcement by releasing an adorable video of Talking Heads frontman David Byrne reclaiming the iconic oversized suit featured in the movie from a dry cleaners, taking it home, trying it on, and practicing some of his signature lean-and-wobble dance moves in it. (Byrne is fresh off an Oscar nomination for his song for A24’s Best Picture winner, Everything Everywhere All At Once.)

What makes Stop Making Sense special? It caught Talking Heads at the perfect moment in their career, still on the upswing, but with a great many of their canonical classics on the setlist: songs like ‘Psycho Killer,’ ‘Burning Down the House,’ and ‘Once in a Lifetime.’ The band’s unique, propulsive sound and Byrne’s surreal lyrics have aged incredibly well, and retain their modernist cool almost 40 years later. They’re agelessly, gloriously weird.

For his part, Demme discards a lot of the typical visual language of concert films, like crowd reaction shots, keeping his focus entirely on the band’s dynamic performance, which gradually builds from a minimal, bare stage with Byrne performing solo to a big ensemble sweating through high-energy dance numbers. And then there’s the