From 'T.A.M.I. Show' to 'Woodstock' to 'Stop Making Sense' to the forthcoming 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, ' Michael Phillips and Christopher Borrelli of the Chicago Tribune pore over a few decades of concert movies worth a listen--and a look
A man in a big suit interrogates the camera operator in"Stop Making Sense."Director Jonathan Demme’s Talking Heads masterpiece “Stop Making Sense,” came out in 1984, and now A24 has released to theaters a 4k digital restoration, with super-crispy and complexly beautiful sound. IMAX-branded screens preferred. Is this the greatest concert film? Yes. I believe it to be so. And now you don’t have to read anymore.
The newest and likely most profitable example of the genre opens Oct. 13: “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.” Less than a month before its theatrical premiere, the North American advance ticket sales for the Swift film are nearly $70 million. Opening week estimates run everywhere between $100 and $150 million. Swift has made seven previous concert films, spanning studio sessions to stadium blowouts, beginning with “Journey to Fearless” in 2010.
Here’s the thing with what Demme and editor Lisa Day created: “Stop Making Sense” is just a glorious display of editing rhythms. It’s a patient approach; they don’t go for the stereotype, that sort of hand-held surface visual energy, or run-and-gun, newsreel-footage-at-Omaha-Beach-style filming. To your point, the movie just pays attention. And they had a frontman, Byrne, who was and is utterly unique.
Martin Scorsese's 1978 movie"The Last Waltz" looks at the legendary rock group The Band and their farewell concert.What I see in “Stop Making Sense,” I also see in Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz” , with The Band. He’ll let the camera be, and let the performers glide in and out of the frame. I remember Van Morrison, hunched over, raising himself up and then into the frame, and then out of it again. In and out, back and forth.
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