Speaking Heads’ ‘Cease Making Sense’ is returning to cinemas once more
Speaking Heads‘ basic live performance movie Cease Making Sense is returning to cinemas, it has been introduced.
Final yr, A24 launched a remastered 4K model of the 1984 film on the massive display to mark its fortieth anniversary. The enduring band additionally reunited at a particular screening as a part of the 2023 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.
Now, it’s been confirmed that the revamped version of Cease Making Sense shall be heading again to cinemas in varied places subsequent Saturday (January 27).
In a put up on social media yesterday (January 17), A24 stated that “month-to-month residency screenings” are scheduled in “choose cities” together with London, New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, San Francisco and Toronto.
Moreover, followers will be capable to purchase a collector’s version Blu-ray of Cease Making Sense at each exhibiting in addition to new particular merchandise.
You possibly can purchase tickets and find more information here, and take a look at the announcement put up under.
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 dwell 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.”
Final month noticed A24 announce a Cease Making Sense tribute album, which is able to function a canopy of Speaking Heads’ ‘Burning Down The Home’ by Paramore. Sixteen artists have contributed covers to the upcoming file. A launch date isn’t but recognized.
Throughout a latest interview, David Byrne stated he felt “eliminated” from the expertise of re-watching himself onscreen in Cease Making Sense. “It’s virtually as if I’m watching a personality,” he defined.
Speaking Heads drummer Chris Franz hinted final October that there might be an additional reunion for the group sooner or later. The musician participated in a Q&A together with his former bandmates – Byrne, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth – at TIFF the earlier month, marking their first public look collectively in over 20 years.