Talking Heads' landmark concert movie 'Stop Making Sense,' filmed nearly 40 years ago, returns to theaters -- IMAX first, then conventional -- this weekend. The band members reunited for the occasion at the Toronto International Film Festival to celebrate its legacy as well as the work of the late director Jonathan Demme.
“I’m very excited about it,” the keyboardist and guitarist said. “They found some negatives, so I think it’s gonna be great to have a more detailed scan. It already sounds great; I saw it in a theater a few years ago and there was another cut that went around again, but to have a more accurate scan now for people who have 4K TVs just brings a level of detail that I’m really excited to be able to see and hear more clearly.
“There was a great deal of pressure on David,” noted Frantz, now, 72, who founded the group with now-wife Weymouth and Byrne as students at the Rhode Island School of Design. Harrison joined subsequently. “It wasn’t easy for him to accept being the ‘rock star.’ I’m not sure that he ever really wanted that, so I’m sympathetic. I know he wanted to be a star, but I don’t know if it’s a ‘rock star’ that he wanted to be.
Demme and his team worked closely with the band in preparing for the filming as well as in the editing process, and Byrne said in Toronto that it felt like the director and editor Lisa Dey were making a feature film as much as documenting a concert. Harrison also still marveled at the speed with which “Stop Making Sense” was produced, debuting less than five months after the concerts took place. “It was, like, a sprint,” Harrison recalled, “and nobody ever got tired. So many projects are interrupted, ‘You gotta take a break.’ And we never took a break, and it feels that way. It was just finished, and it was wonderful.”“We were not saying, ‘cut here, cut there,” he remembered.
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