Speaking Heads‘ iconic movie Cease Making Sense is about to return to cinemas in an IMAX format.
The Jonathan Demme movie will probably be screened throughout 300 IMAX areas throughout the UK and Eire on October 2 as a part of the continued celebrations of its fortieth anniversary. Tickets can be found right here.
A24 has partnered with IMAX for a brand new month-to-month screening sequence, which has seen IMAX remaster classics from their library of 140 function movies. Earlier remastered and launched movies embrace Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Midsommar, The Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems, Mat Whitecross’ Oasis: Supersonic and the Daniels’ Every little thing In all places All At As soon as.
Cease Making Sense beforehand got here again into cinemas earlier this yr. Final yr, A24 launched a remastered 4K model of the 1984 film on the large display screen to mark its fortieth anniversary. The enduring band additionally reunited at a particular screening as a part of the 2023 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant.
An official synopsis reads: “Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its fortieth anniversary, the 1984 movie was directed by famend filmmaker Jonathan Demme and is taken into account by critics as the best live performance movie of all time.
“Cease Making Sense stars core band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison together with Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry and Edna Holt.”
It provides: “The reside efficiency was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and options Speaking Heads’ most memorable songs.”
Earlier this yr, A24 introduced a Cease Making Sense tribute album, which is able to function a canopy of Speaking Heads’ ‘Burning Down The Home’ by Paramore.
The band opened up concerning the movie’s creation in an interview on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon in June, saying that they didn’t need it to be “too Spinal Faucet“.
At one level within the interview, Speaking Heads had been requested whether or not they had approached director Jonathan Demme with any “notes” on how he ought to seize their efficiency onscreen.
“Do you all go like, ‘Hey, right here’s what we undoubtedly don’t need to do’?” Fallon mentioned. Weymouth responded: “Yeah. We did that.”
The bassist continued: “We mentioned, ‘We don’t need all of the gimmicks’. We wished the cameras to be like a delicate eye; the way in which an viewers member can be seeing it, with out the digital camera getting in the way in which and taking part in round.”
She went on to say that the group wished “no cut up display screen” and “no interviews” to be featured. “That may be too Spinal Faucet,” Weymouth added, referring to the traditional comedy rock mockumentary – which was launched the identical yr as Cease Making Sense.
