Four decades after it was filmed, “Stop Making Sense,” the Talking Heads concert documentary, is still ecstatic and strange.
“It stays kind of relevant, even though it doesn’t make literal sense,” David Byrne, the band’s leader and singer, said in a recent interview.
“Stop Making Sense” is both a definitive 1980s period piece and a prophecy.
“Sometimes we write things and we don’t know what they’re about until afterwards,” Byrne said.
I’ve looked at things I’ve written and I go, ‘Oh.
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