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If you’re hoping to see David Byrne reunite with his former bandmates in Talking Heads, you’re not alone — but you probably shouldn’t expect it to happen anytime soon. In his expansive new Rolling Stone Interview, Byrne let fans of his old band down gently.

“You can’t turn the clock back,” he told Rolling Stone. “When you hear music at a certain point in your life, it means a lot. But it doesn’t mean you can go back there and make it happen again.”

Byrne is...

David Byrne strolls into his downtown Manhattan office around noon and promptly removes all of his footwear. He’s been in this prewar building only for a few months, but it’s already unmistakably his own, looking as much like a work space as it does like a museum of the unusual items he’s collected throughout his decades as one of pop’s most curious minds. Meticulously organized metal shelving lines one long wall full of music books, art books, history books, and enough DVDs to put the Criterion Closet to shame.

Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads has announced new 2025-2026 dates for his live Stop Making Sense screening tour, following a successful run of sold-out events celebrating the film’s 40th anniversary.

The tour begins on September 11th in Concord, New Hampshire, and will stop in cities including Washington, DC, Kansas City, Austin, and more. See the full schedule below. Tickets are available via Harrison’s website.

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Presented by A24 in 4K Ultra HD, each screening features Harrison live in-person, offering behind-the-scenes stories, an introduction to the film, and a post-show audience Q&a. The restored 4K version premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023, where a reunited Talking Heads sat down with Spike Lee following the film’s screening.

The re-release also boasts a newly remixed Dolby Atmos soundtrack, with Harrison directly involved in restoring the original audio. “This is just another level better,...

Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads has announced new 2025-2026 dates for his live Stop Making Sense screening tour, following a successful run of sold-out events celebrating the film’s 40th anniversary.

The tour begins on September 11th in Concord, New Hampshire, and will stop in cities including Washington, DC, Kansas City, Austin, and more. See the full schedule below.

Get Stop Making Sense Tickets Here

Presented by A24 in 4K Ultra HD, each screening features Harrison live in-person, offering behind-the-scenes stories, an introduction to the film, and a post-show audience Q&a. The restored 4K version premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023, where a reunited Talking Heads sat down with Spike Lee following the film’s screening.

The re-release also boasts a newly remixed Dolby Atmos soundtrack, with Harrison directly involved in restoring the original audio. “This is just another level better,” he told Forbes. “We went back...

Among the brilliant first four Talking Heads albums, More Songs About Buildings and Food has always been a dark horse candidate for the all-around greatest. Released 47 years ago this month, it sounds more electable now than ever. With its lean muscularity, panic-attack propulsion, weird ambiance, highwire anxiety, paranoid prescience and formal coherence, it comes across as the Sgt. Pepper of media-age alienation.

That alone would merit a shout-out for More Songs About Buildings and Food (Super Deluxe Edition), yet another super-sized major label classic album vault-scraping. But there’s context,...

David Laub, the former head of Metrograph Pictures, is joining Neon as SVP Marketing and Publicity, a newly created position in which the exec will focus on marketing, publicity and awards.

Laub will work closely with Ryan Werner, Neon’s new President of Global Cinema.

Laub had been head of Metrograph Pictures since February 2024. During his run, he acquired and released such films as India Donaldson’s feature debut Good One, which played both Sundance and Cannes and was on more than 100 year-end top 10 lists; Cannes selection Santosh, which was on the shortlist for this year’s International Feature Oscar; and the lauded Venice prize-winner April by Dea Kulumbegashvilli.

Laub previously had spent close to nine years at A24, where he worked in all aspects of film distribution including marketing, publicity, acquisitions and exhibition. He oversaw a slate of films for the company that included Charlotte Wells’ Oscar nominee Aftersun,...

For the first time since 2018, David Byrne has a new album on the way. Entitled Who Is the Sky?, the upcoming project drops September 5th via Matador Records and finds the former Talking Heads frontman collaborating with Ghost Train Orchestra and Grammy-winning producer Kid Harpoon (a.k.a. Tom Hull). Additionally, Byrne has announced an extensive world tour and shared the lead single, “Everybody Laughs.” See the dates and stream the new song below.

Byrne wrote the songs of Who Is the Sky? in the years following the end of his American Utopia era, which featured a celebrated stint on Broadway and culminated in a Spike Lee-directed HBO special. “I’ve found that when the time comes, it’s easier to start if there’s a little stockpile,” he said in a statement. “And before too long there was. Very rudimentary songs began to emerge, with just me on...

Olivia Rodrigo threw it back to the ’80s this weekend to jam out with a new wave legend.

During her Saturday performance at Governors Ball in New York City, the 3x Grammy winner was joined onstage by Talking Heads frontman David Byrne for a surprise performance of the band’s 1983 single ‘Burning Down the House’ for the crowd at Flushing Meadows—Corona Park.

The rocker matched Rodrigo’s red performance look in a pair of matching overalls as they playfully re-enacted the choreography to the song.

Byrne’s surprise appearance comes after the Talking Heads were introduced to a new generation of fans with A24‘s 40th anniversary re-release of their 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, which grossed more than $5 million domestically after a limited run in 2023.

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Olivia Rodrigo welcomed David Byrne onstage during her headlining set Saturday at New York’s Governors Ball festival for a rendition of the Talking Heads classic “Burning Down the House.”

Toward the end of her weather-delayed set, Rodrigo brought out the “legendary” Byrne, who immediately launched into the Speaking in Tongues track. The two singers then traded verses on the track, with Byrne eventually dropping his acoustic guitar to engage in some synchronized dance routines with the Guts singer:

Like much of the Talking Heads’ work following the Stop Making Sense rerelease,...

"I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire. Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire..." Here we go again! The 70s rock band Talking Heads has just put out a brand new music video. They're back on a hot streak! Especially after A24 re-released their classic concert doc Stop Making Sense a few years ago (which I'm so glad I saw on the big screen). Their iconic, beloved, world famous song "Psycho Killer" gets a clever new music video starring the one-and-only Irish actress Saoirse Ronan. She's one of my favorite actresses (and should've been nominated for The Outrun last year) and it's great to see her playing this role in this fun video where she gets to let loose. It's directed by Mike Mills, one of my favorite directors now, known for Beginners, 20th Century Women, and C'mon C'mon. The song is now 48 years old, first released on...

Talking Heads have released the first-ever music video for their classic song “Psycho Killer,” in celebration of the band’s debut performance exactly 50 years ago today. Acclaimed filmmaker Mike Mills directed the visual, which stars Oscar-winning actress Saoirse Ronan as an everywoman who begins to unravel while stuck in a tedious, 9-to-5 lifestyle. Watch it below.

The music video’s release precisely marks the 50th anniversary of the band’s live debut on June 5th, 1975, when they opened for the Ramones at Cbgb in New York City. In the video, Ronan portrays a woman trapped in a cyclical routine, her mood shifting dramatically from aloof to tranquil to enraged. She has an outburst at her workplace, dances in her kitchen, and lies awake in existential fear, all while those around her seem oblivious to her actions.

In a press release, Talking Heads praised the video’s unconventional direction. “This video...

After another four-year wait, Lorde is back with a new album. She announced Virgin, out June 27, on social media.

In a text blast to her fans, Lorde shared the credits for the album. It was produced by her and Jim-e Stack with contributions from Dev Hynes, Daniel Nigro, Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, and Buddy Ross. “100% written in blood,” she added. The album cover looks to be an x-ray of a pelvis, with a visible belt buckle and Iud in the blue tint.

Lorde kicked off this era with a bang...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Bam

Bard-bred films by Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Béla Tarr, and Luchino Visconti screen in Macbeth(s).

Anthology Film Archives

Essential Cinema brings Michael Snow’s Wavelength and Back and Forth screen on 16 and 35mm.

Roxy Cinema

The Tilda Swinton-led Female Perversions plays throughout the weekend with Q&As; The French Connection shows on 35mm this Saturday, as curated by Martin Scorsese, while Freak Orlando and Eraserhead also screens; The Flintstones screens for free on Sunday.

Spectacle

Tomu Uchida’s A Fugitive from the Past screens on Friday.

Film Forum

Mort Rifkin favorite A Man and a Woman plays in a new restoration, as does Lelouch’s La bonne année; Yentl screens this Sunday.

IFC Center

Salò, The Lair of the White Worm, The Holy Mountain, Stop Making Sense, The Elephant Man, Sorcerer, and Mad Max show late.

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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Anthology Film Archives

A series on sex workers includes Spike Lee’s Girl 6, Working Girls, and House of Tolerance.

Bam

Queering the Canon runs between in-theater showings and virtual screenings, including Tsai Ming-liang’s Vive L’amour.

Spectacle

Tomu Uchida’s A Fugitive from the Past screens on Saturday.

Roxy Cinema

The French Connection plays on 35mm, as curated by Martin Scorsese; Beethoven screens for free on Sunday.

Film Forum

Mort Rifkin favorite A Man and a Woman begins playing in a new restoration; Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman plays on 35mm this Sunday.

IFC Center

Salò, The Holy Mountain, Stop Making Sense, The Elephant Man, Sorcerer, and Funny Games (the good one) show late.

Nitehawk Cinema

Twelve Monkeys screens early on Saturday and Sunday.

Metrograph

Donnie Darko and Diabolique play on 35mm; In Good Faith and In the Pinku start while Tonino Guerra,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Bam

My ten-film Manoel de Oliveira retrospective Mirror of Life begins, with numerous restorations making their North American premiere.

Japan Society

One of Ozu’s greatest films, Early Spring, plays on 35mm this Friday.

Roxy Cinema

Eraserhead and An American Tail screen, the latter for free.

Anthology Film Archives

The Rules of the Game and The Flowers of St. Francis play on 35mm in Essential Cinema.

Film Forum

A René Clair retrospective continues, as does Luis Buñuel’s Él and Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman; Betty Boop and Friends screens on Sunday.

IFC Center

Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop plays in a new restoration; Stop Making Sense, Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway, Sorcerer, and Funny Games (the good one) show late.

Nitehawk Cinema

Hanna and a print of Westward the Women screen early on Saturday and Sunday.

Metrograph

Donnie...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Roxy Cinema

Martin Scorsese has programmed Living, Breathing New York, which continues with a 35mm print of Bringing Out the Dead on Friday and Saturday; The Quiet Man plays on 35mm Saturday and Sunday; David Lynch shorts and Lost Highway screen.

Anthology Film Archives

A new restoration of João César Monteiro’s Snow White plays on Saturday; a Rosemary Hochschild retrospective screens.

Film Forum

A René Clair retrospective has begun; Luis Buñuel’s Él continues screening in a 4K restoration alongside Play It As It Lays and Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman; Modern Times screens on Sunday.

IFC Center

Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop plays in a new restoration; Stop Making Sense, Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway, Best in Show, Palindromes, and Pink Flamingos show late.

Bam

Heiny Srour’s Leila and the Wolves continues.

Nitehawk Cinema

Paper Moon...

Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s canine crime adventure “Dog Man” sniffed and scratched its way to No. 1 at the domestic box office for the second consecutive weekend. Meanwhile two newcomers, Universal’s action comedy “Love Hurts” and Sony’s gory slasher “Heart Eyes,” mostly settled for scraps in this quiet Super Bowl stretch.

“Dog Man,” a family film about a police officer who becomes surgically fused to his faithful pup after getting injured on the job, collected $13.7 million from 3,887 North American theaters over the weekend. Those ticket sales, down 62% from its $36 million debut, were behind the second-weekend projections of $19 million to $22 million. So far, “Dog Man” has grossed $54.1 million domestically and $66 million globally against its $40 million budget.

“Audience scores have been stellar,” says Jim Orr, Universal’s president of domestic distribution. “Fingers crossed for a great run like we’ve seen on DreamWorks titles.” He’s referring to the robust...

Eric Clapton and Paramount+ seem to be taking some inspiration from the success of A24's revival of The Talking Heads' seminal concert film, Stop Making Sense. They're staging their own updated restoration with Eric Clapton Unplugged… Over 30 Years Later, an expanded re-release of the "Layla" singer's famous 1992 performance.

Clapton's...

Blondshell, the recording project of Sabrina Teitelbaum and our 2023 Rookie of the Year, has announced her sophomore album, If You Asked for a Picture (out May 2nd via Partisan Records). As a preview, Teitelbaum shared the single “T&a.” Watch the music video for the new song below.

If You Asked for a Picture arrives as the follow-up to Blondshell’s well-received self-titled debut. For the new set, the songwriter once again teamed up with producer Yves Rothman to craft hooky, grunge-tinged guitar tunes. The project takes its name from the 1986 Mary Oliver poem “Dogfish,” which explores the tricky nature of sharing personal stories — a topic Teitelbaum herself continues to grapple with.

“There’s a part of the poem that says: ‘I don’t need to tell you everything I’ve been through. It’s just another story of somebody trying to survive,’” Teitelbaum says. “Something I love about songs...

A24 and Nicolas Cage proved to be a match made in heaven with their 2023 surreal comedy Dream Scenario. A24 is the auteur-driven studio best known for thought-provoking films like Everything Everywhere All At Once and Midsommar, and the actor with an eclectic resume ranging from Oscar-winning fare like Leaving Las Vegas and Adaptation to action classics like Con Air and Face-Off, were the perfect collaborators for writer/director Kristoffer Borgli's brilliant satire of celebrity culture.

Dream Scenario follows Paul Matthews, an unassuming professor living a mundane life with his wife and two daughters. Paul is a passive man, not particularly respected by his students, peers, or family, and he dreams of making a bigger impact. He unexpectedly gets his wish when random people worldwide begin having dreams about him. Initially, he basks in the attention and newfound fame this brings him, but they also come with unexpected, drastic consequences.

Horror and the Academy Awards are famously (and unfortunately) strange bedfellows. Which is strange on the face of it, because even a casual film lover can recognize the huge importance the horror genre has to the medium. So many of Hollywood's most accomplished filmmakers got their start in horror, so many technical innovations were made because of horror movies, and the very grammar of cinema would not be as advanced as it's become without the horror genre. To disregard horror or remove it from any study of the medium is to fundamentally misunderstand cinema, full stop.

If all of that is common knowledge, then why does horror continue to be treated so poorly by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? The reasons for this are too lengthy and varied to go into detail here, suffice to say that it has to do with an amalgam of antiquated (re:...

U.S. President Jimmy Carter died today, Dec. 29, 2024, at the age of 100, making him the longest-living President (and a man who even outlived one of his obituary writers). He passed away at his home in Plains, Georgia, around 3:45pm Et, according to his son, James E. Carter (known as Chip). Plains was a formative part of Carter's life and career — the great documentary about Jimmy Carter (directed by Jonathan Demme of Silence of the Lambs and Stop Making Sense fame) was even called Man from Plains, which focused on Carter's book tour supporting Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, one of many pro-peace campaigns that the Nobel Peace Prize winner fought for throughout his life. You can watch that excellent 2007 documentary for free through the link below:

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As the documentary shows, Jimmy Carter was practically the mascot of an all-American small-town life. He was born in Plains,...

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Sometimes, artists get consigned to doing the same thing over and over again. Many movie fans are now familiar with the term "typecast," when an actor is repeatedly assigned to play the same type of character in film after film. Actors like Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Michael Cera and Giancarlo Esposito all hit the big time and immediately fell into this trap. This problem, if one can call it that, doesn't only affect actors as well. Writers, directors, cinematographers and beyond are sometimes questioned, doubted, or vilified if they try to branch out beyond their perceived comfort zone. Every genre is an entirely different beast, and it takes a truly talented filmmaker to seamlessly shift between them with relative ease. Many have shown their...

Let’s face it. Theatre has been the most successful place for stories about popular musicians. Alicia Keys’ “Hell’s Kitchen” is selling big on Broadway, as is “Mj.” “A Beautiful Noise,” about Neil Diamond ‘s professional and personal history, had a nice run there, and is touring the country after its run in Los Angeles. We’ve had “Tina,” “Jersey Boys,” The Temptations’ “Ain’t Too Proud,” Carole King’s “Beautiful” and others. A new musical is being tested now about Frank Sinatra. But the most exciting news arrives this spring, when recent Tony winner Jonathan Groff portrays Bobby Darin.

But movies about musical stars? A mixed bag. (including Kevin Spacey in a bad one about Bobby Darin) Documentaries have been the safest form to chronicle the life of famous musicians: Ones about David Crosby, Joan Baez, Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt. And, of course, “Woodstock” and Martin Scorsese’s “Last Waltz.

Sites such as film discovery platform Letterboxd promote a new way of film-viewing, eschewing sneering gatekeepers for a more open-minded and eclectic experience

Amid all the dire news to come out of the movie business this year – a box office slump, a slowdown of production, growing unemployment in Hollywood, the closure of a dozen cinemas in the UK – good news seems to have come from the unlikeliest of places: cinephilia, pronounced “dead” by Susan Sontag in 1996, is alive and well and sporting a Mubi tote bag among the very demographic, 18- to 25-year-olds, whose gif-shortened attention spans are usually held up as spelling the death of the medium.

A recent Wim Wenders retrospective including Wings of Desire and The American Friend took £225,700 at the box office – more than double its distributor, Curzon, expected. A North American rerelease of Chen Kaige’s 1993 Palme d’Or winner Farewell My Concubine grossed $350,000. Even...

“The Brutalist” is about to get even bigger (though hopefully no longer). A24 and IMAX have finalized a deal to bring “The Brutalist” to IMAX screens, the studio announced Wednesday.

The film will be available for one-night early access screenings on December 18 at the AMC Lincoln Square in NY and the AMC Century City in Los Angeles, and it will then expand to IMAX screens nationwide throughout January.

A24 quite recently announced 70mm screenings of “The Brutalist,” which IndieWire understands have all nearly sold out rapidly. The IMAX screenings — unlike in the case of something like “Oppenheimer” — will not be on 70mm film prints.

“For me, there is no greater cinematic tool than Large Format Capture, and there is no greater canvas than IMAX,” Corbet said in a statement. “I am thrilled for audiences to have the opportunity to discover Lol Crawley’s exquisite Cinematography, Steve Single’s meticulous Sound Mix,...

Miley Cyrus has shared a new song called “Beautiful That Way,” which comes from the soundtrack for the upcoming Gia Coppola movie The Last Showgirl (one of the best films of 2024). Stream it below.

The tune finds Cyrus singing over a romantic, dreamy soundscape of muted strings, gentle piano, and slinky guitar. As the track goes on, it steadily builds in intensity and clarity, leading to a final crescendo that’s capped off with Cyrus’ vocal hook.

“Beautiful That Way” rounds up Cyrus’ sporadic 2024. Within the last 12 months, the artist covered Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” for A24’s Stop Making Sense tribute album, guested on Beyonceé’s Cowboy Carter (one of the best albums of the year), and revealed that she works out in heels. She also teased that she is working on a new album that’s inspired by Pink Floyd’s The Wall.

The Last Showgirl stars Pamala...

David Byrne in his big suit is an indelible image from the 1984 Stop Making Sense concert film and is as much a part of Talking Heads iconography as any of their album covers. One of the most recognizable rock bands of the latter part of the 20th century, Talking Heads' influence can be found in everything from the sound of Danny Brown to Vampire Weekend's lyrics to the name of Radiohead. It's hard not to see just how ubiquitous their funky world-ranging sound is in modern pop and indie music.

Consisting of Chris Frantz on drums, Tina Weymouth on bass, Jerry Harrison on keyboards and guitar, and frontman David Byrne on lead vocals and guitar, Talking Heads are often counted among the greatest bands of all time (via Rolling Stone). Music isn't the only medium they dominated. Their film Stop Making Sense is considered one of the best concert movies ever.

Talking Heads have been celebrating the 40th anniversary of their historic concert film Stop Making Sense and its accompanying soundtrack album dating back to last year. On Tuesday night (October 15th), they continued the festivities by presenting a Jeopardy! category dedicated to them.

Ranging from the venue where Talking Heads played their first show to the director of Stop Making Sense to the group’s biggest hit, the category’s clues were pretty reasonable for anyone with a passable familiarity with the quartet’s music.

In September 2023, Talking Heads appeared onstage together for the first time since 2002 for a Stop Making Sense panel at the Toronto International Film Festival. This led to Live Nation (unsuccessfully) attempting a proper reunion at Coachella 2024.

However, fans were still able to get their Talking Heads fix when the band brought Stop Making Sense back to theaters and released< a tribute album (get your copy...

This week marks the official 40th anniversary of the theatrical release of Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense, and to celebrate, the band reunited on Jeopardy! to present a category entirely devoted to the group’s legacy.

David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison first appeared on-screen together to reveal they would ask contestants “clues about the movie and our music.”

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Talking Heads have announced an extensive 4xLP box set celebrating their 1977 landmark debut, Talking Heads: 77.

Arriving on November 8th, the super deluxe edition of Talking Heads: 77 features one LP of the remastered original album, one LP comprised of rare and previously-unreleased demos and outtakes, and two LPs with the complete live album Live at Cbgb’s, New York, NY, Oct. 10, 1977, which is only available in this box set.

The box set also contains four 7-inch singles, including the newly-released acoustic version of “Psycho Killer” featuring Arthur Russell. The singles are set in a gatefold with a black and white image of the band; the box set also features an 80-page hardcover book featuring unearthed photos, fliers, artwork, and liner notes handwritten by band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison, as well as original recording engineer Ed Stasium. Pre-orders for the vinyl box set are now ongoing.

Dennis Quaid’s biopic on the controversial president of the United States, Reagan, just got released. Audiences were skeptical about the content of the movie, with most claiming it to be a propaganda film to sway the upcoming elections. Another movie has now joined the list of presidential biopics of 2024.

Sebastian Stan is soon coming to the theatre, this time portraying a young Donald Trump. In his upcoming biopic titled, The Apprentice, The Martian actor will be essaying the role of the former President. With elections just around the corner, the maker’s decision to release the film in October was well-received by fans. People online have applauded the timing of the movie, noticing the impact elections and awards might have on it.

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One of the United State’s most controversial figures,...

"There's no stability. But I'm going to keep doing it 'till I drop." Dark Star Pictures has unveiled the official trailer for Art Dealers, a kooky and crazy documentary film from filmmakers Roy Power & Adam Weiner. Available to watch in select theaters this fall before it's on VOD. The rapturous, sweaty live experience of Philly rock band Low Cut Connie-fronted by charismatic leader Adam Weiner-is celebrated in all its beer-soaked, piano slamming glory in this rousing documentary. The description says this is in "the tradition of art-world documentaries like Stop Making Sense and American Movie." This doc is a unique hybrid-genre concert film starring the rock n' roll performance artist Low Cut Connie, depicting a stunning 3-show run in New York City in 2022. The concert is set against 5 years of doc footage that explores the struggles, frustrations, and humor of living a working class "art life" in modern America. Made for rock fans to enjoy.

Blondshell is back with her first solo, standalone single of 2024: “What’s Fair,” an alt-rock bop about complicated mom/daughter relationships.

Built around driving guitar parts with a nostalgic pop-punk inspired arrangement, “What’s Fair” features our 2023 Rookie of the Year singing catchy melodies with words addressed to her late mother. “I think that you’d be proud/ I flew alone today/ I think that you’d be shocked/ That I don’t look the same,” she begins.

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More layers of guitar enter and momentum builds for the anthemic choruses, but the true climax of “What’s Fair” comes when Blondshell gets more frank on the second verse. “You’d want me to be famous/ So you could live by proxy/ You always had a reason to comment on my body,” she sings, before declaring, “But I know there’s nothing less perfect to a girl than a mom.

While they’ve only backed a few documentaries, notably De Palma, Boys State, Occupied City, and the re-release of Stop Making Sense, A24’s latest foray into the realm of non-fiction explores the psychic realm. Look Into My Eyes, from After Tiller, Miss Americana, and Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields director Lana Wilson, follows a group of New York City psychics as they conduct deeply intimate readings for their clients, revealing a kaleidoscope of connection, healing, and the eternal need to have witnesses to better see ourselves. Ahead of a September 6 release, the first trailer has now arrived.

Jake Kring-Schreifels said in his Sundance review, “Ask enough people what they think about psychics and clairvoyants, and you’ll probably get eye-rolls. Whether referencing the storefront tarot readers or the more seriously minded seers who perform seances and communicate with those who have transitioned into the afterlife, the impression of this spiritual trade is generally disbelief.

When Teezo Touchdown hit the stage at New York’s Governors Ball in June, he made room for all kinds of fans in his audience. “I don’t like asking who’s been here since day one,” he told the crowd. “Because today can be our day one.” The musician joined Rolling Stone backstage at the music festival for an episode of The Green Room, where he reflected on the most valuable lessons he’s learned in music — like showing up for his audience with open arms.

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Max has shared a curated list of films available to stream on the service in Summer 2024. Max is home to Warner Bros. Pictures films, classics and new favorites from A24, the Studio Ghibli library, and award-winning films spanning multiple genres.

The platform is showcasing its vast film library with curated summer watch lists of blockbusters, horror, family-friendly films, and more.

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Warner Bros. Pictures’ Dune: Part Two, the groundbreaking sequel to Dune, is now available to stream on the platform along with recent hits like Wonka and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which also has an American Sign Language (Asl) version of the film available to stream.

Viewers can also find summer favorites like Mamma Mia!, Meg 2: The Trench, A Night at the Roxbury, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

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There can be nothing better in the summer than seeing a concert, whether it be in an air-conditioned arena or outdoors on a nice sunny day. Yet it is concerts seen through film and video that are proving popular with fans. With Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo providing livestreams, the massive success of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and Beyonc's Renaissance, plus A24 re-releasing Stop Making Sense into theaters, the concert film has never been more popular.

Rock ‘n roll and performative Satanism may be a match made in heaven, but conservative attitudes used to mean that musicians had to tread carefully when subverting religious standards in their performances. Thankfully, decades of pushed boundaries have led to mainstream audiences finally becoming a bit more lenient when it comes to musical blasphemy. That’s why no one bats an eye when thousands of fans fill up an arena to see a band that openly mocks religious institutions while casually incorporating demonic chants into their romantic lyrics.

And with so many followers willing to dress up as ghouls and evil nuns as they sing along to ballads about doomed lovers and eldritch rituals, it was only a matter of time before Swedish rock band Ghost would get the chance to celebrate their particular brand of high-spirited satanism with a feature-length concert film.

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The core four members of Talking Heads — vocalist and guitarist David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, bassist Tina Weymouth and keyboardist and guitarist Jerry Harrison — split rather acrimoniously in 1991 and have rarely shared stages in the years since. But in celebration of A24’s 40th anniversary reissue of their galvanizing 1984 concert film “Stop Making Sense,” the erstwile bandmates have spoken more kindly of each other and reunited for a series of interviews, and on Thursday night the four sat down for a Q&a with Questlove at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre that followed a screening of the film.

While the Q&a was primarily a lovefest between the quartet, who shared frequently told anecdotes about the film’s complex production, shooting schedule and Byrne’s big suit that were common knowledge to most superfans who attended the sold-out event. Yet one moment while discussing the film’s narrative rattled the crowd.

When I talked to German writer-director Tom Tykwer and his “Run Lola Run” star Franka Potente on Zoom recently, Tykwer and I remembered our interview 25 years ago when Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) released the movie the first time. (Not that I could find that interview online.) It became a word-of-mouth hit all over the world, scoring $22.9 million worldwide. “It was one of our top movies,” said SPC co-president Michael Barker on the phone. “Our goal has been to find movies that stand the test of time. It was one of the first movies with English subtitles that the younger generation turned out for.”

“Run Lola Run” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1998 before opening in the U.S. in early 1999. Now, SPC has orchestrated a 4K restoration coming to 250 theaters on June 7, following the success with younger audiences of such recent classic reissues as A24’s “Stop Making Sense” and SPC’s “Amelie.

As part of a strategy to build a new cinephile audience and revive the filmgoing experience in Brazil, São Paulo-based distributor O2 Play is theatrically releasing a selection of classic films, starting with A24’s 4K restored version of the seminal ‘80s Talking Heads concert docu, “Stop Making Sense” by Jonathan Demme.

The company has also launched an app called “carteirinha de cinéfilo” (cinephile card), to offer moviegoers special discounts, collectibles and foster the theatrical experience.

“Available at the App Store and Google store, we decided to launch it to help engage our audience and bring them back to theaters,” said O2 Play founder Igor Kupstas who laments the universal decline in cinema attendance since the pandemic, felt in Brazil and most parts of the world.

According to Kupstas, who launched O2 Play in 2013, talks are underway with traditional and IMAX screen owners for the premiere of “Stop Making Sense...

A24 and IMAX will keep you cool this summer. Very cool.

The next three A24 films that will be available in the IMAX Experience for its monthly screening series are the highly-anticipated director’s cut of “Midsommar” on Thursday, June 20, Mat Whitecross’ “Oasis: Supersonic” on Tuesday, July 16, and Best Picture winner “Everything Everywhere All At Once” on Wednesday, August 28.

The A24 x IMAX Present screening series continues every month for the next year, with IMAX digitally remastering classics from A24’s premium library of more than 140 feature films. Previous remastered and launched films include Alex Garland’s “Ex Machina,” Ari Aster’s “Hereditary,” and the Safdie Brothers’ “Uncut Gems.”

Screenings will be held across more than 300 IMAX locations nationwide and select locations internationally. Tickets are available here.

A24 and IMAX also collaborated on remastering Talking Heads concert film “Stop Making Sense.” “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,...

From an early age, we’re trained from media osmosis to expect, and to celebrate, performers who lord their power, their status, and their entitlement over us. We celebrate, with a certain degree of self-loathing, these peoples’ transformations from regular Joes to the icons we’re raised by television, magazines, and movies to want to be.

Talking Heads, the quartet consisting of David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison, have a more centered, settled sensibility, one that somehow still doesn’t compromise the energy we expect and want from a good rip-roaring concert. In Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense, the group put on a show that revels in a smaller, more personal, self-actualization: It’s about rock stars learning to dominate themselves as opposed to others, to fit into a wider-reaching society that they accept as baffling, uncomfortable, and joyous.

Stop Making Sense doesn’t feel self-conscious and “good for you,...

The Talking Heads Tribute album Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense has arrived today, and it begins with a cover of “Psycho Killer” from none other than Miley Cyrus.

The album, announced by A24 Music back in January in the wake of Stop Making Sense’s 40th anniversary re-release, features renditions of the film’s original 16 tracks. Paramore kicked things off with their cover of “Burning Down the House,” Lorde reimagined “Take Me to the River,” The National covered “Heaven,” and girl in red tackled “Girlfriend Is Better.”

Other contributions come from Cyrus, Kevin Abstract (“Once in a Lifetime”), Teezo Touchdown (“Making Flippy Floppy”), Blondshell (“Thank You For Sending Me an Angel”), The Linda Lindas (“Found a Job”), Badbadnotgood and Norah Jones (“This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)”), and more. Stream the album below.

Miley Cyrus is no stranger to rock covers or “Psycho Killer.

Miley Cryus has unveiled a synth-laden cover Talking Heads’ 1977 hit “Psycho Killer.” The singer recorded the rendition, which she previewed live at Chateau Marmont in March, for Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense, out now.

While Cyrus offered an acoustic version of the song at Chateau Marmont, her recorded cover is far edgier, falling somewhere between pop and dance music. It embraces an ’80 synth sensibility, with angular beats and fuzzed out vocals.

Earlier this year, A24 announced it was working on a Talking Heads tribute album,...

One Cannes ritual is IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond’s annual press lunch. IMAX is thriving in the global marketplace, with more than 1,700 screens in 90 countries, as audiences continue to recognize and embrace the global brand for giant film and digital cameras and big-screen formats. Helfand announced the company’s upcoming 2025 filmed for IMAX slate (below) while at Cannes, which he believes will break records for the company. Thanks to IMAX believer Chris Nolan‘s global blockbuster “Oppenheimer,” IMAX performed at peak capacity with over $1 billion in revenue in 2023, matching the company’s 2019 pre-pandemic record.

IMAX delivered 20% of the global box office for “Oppenheimer” — shot entirely with IMAX film cameras — and more than $190 million worldwide, making it the fifth highest grossing IMAX film of all time. IMAX also delivered 21% of the global box office for “Dune: Part Two” — shot entirely with IMAX-certified digital cameras — and over $145 million worldwide, making it the seventh highest.

A quick question: Do you like The Godfather? How about Goodfellas? Or Gremlins? Or Stop Making Sense, Avatar, Apollo 13, Chinatown, Easy Rider, Paper Moon, Lone Star, or roughly 90 percent of any movies featuring monsters terrorizing pretty ladies from the last 50 years?

You have, in so many ways, Roger Corman to thank for all of them. A producer, director and writer who became a patron saint to an entire generation of filmmakers, the “King of the Bs” either gave the artists behind those movies their start or helped give them...

Growing up in Texas in the 2000s, new-generation rap-rock star Teezo Touchdown was largely unfamiliar with Talking Heads. But as he was making his own records and plotting a stage show, some of his colleagues thought he’d be inspired by the band and called up a clip from its 1984 concert movie, Stop Making Sense. “The opening shot of David Byrne coming out with a boombox and doing ‘Psycho Killer’ — I had a true discovery moment,” Teezo recalls. “With what he was doing, and the production and the visuals, they had the total package.

Paramore opened for Taylor Swift last night at Paris’ La Défense Arena and took the opportunity to showcase their cover of Talking Heads’ “Burning Down the House” for the first time live.

The rock band, who are supporting Swift on the European, U.K., and Ireland leg of her Eras Tour, performed a nine-song set and included their recent rendition of Talking Heads’ 1983 single. The cover will appear on an upcoming tribute album, Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense, released to celebrate concert film Stop Making Sense.