Stop the press, stop thinking logically: the best concert film of all time now comes home remastered and on 4K Blu-ray. That’s pretty awesome considering you almost missed some of them Stop making sense when it was re-released in theaters last year. But it gets even better: The reissue of the A24 comes to home theaters with an expanded version of footage thought to be lost.
A24s Stop making sense The restoration includes the remastered film in various forms, all including ‘Cities’ and ‘Big Business / I Zimbra’, two parts of the film previously thought lost.
According to A24’s press release, the original negative for the edits of these songs was lost, but the production company pulled from other footage (captured by the multiple cameras that rolled during the three nights of performances at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater) and was able to create a new 4K, ultra HD editing of the previously unused (and even unseen) footage. And here you thought heaven was a place where nothing ever happens!
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This is a pretty big win, even for people who pop their home copies into the DVD player once a month. Stop making sense is the kind of performance that simply crackles in any case; the band is on, and the energy of the show never flags, even when the BPMs do. Just about every song is made better in the show, and rewatches are rewarded with wall-to-wall bangers and new appreciation for Jonathan Demme’s thoughtful framework of a band making its way through the void.
The less we say about it the better, but it deserves recognition what a great run this film has had. Beyond Demme’s direction, beyond capturing The Talking Heads at the height of their fame (and their ‘David Byrne expands the band’ phase), beyond even setting the bar for concert films for 40 years, Stop making sense has proven to be a classic through the ages. The re-release of the A24 was in the cinema 19 weeksAnd surpassed the original 1984 releaseand even some quieter first films like Huidarink.
With a film like this you don’t have to wait until the party is over; As anyone who’s seen it can attest, you can throw this bad boy on at any time, whether it’s a buzzing party, a lazy Saturday cleaning your lovely house, or anytime you just want to rise above the earth on a piece of heavenly rock perfection. This is a movie you can see more than once in your life, that’s what I mean.
A24 will exclusively sell 4K Blu-ray through their store, for $58. (A standard disc version is available for $53.) In addition, there will be new merchandise: the soundtrack on vinyl, shirts and a coaster set. Nothing is better than this (right)?