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The Talking Heads on the once-in-a-lifetime ‘Stop Making Sense’

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

TORONTO (AP) — For nearly four decades, the Talking Heads documentary “Stop Making Sense” has exerted an inexorable pull on all who encounter the frenetic fever of arguably the finest concert film ever made. Its power to bring together – director Jonathan Demme opens with David Byrne alone on a spare stage and swells into an art-funk spectacular – is such that it’s even managed to reunite the group, too. For the first time in 21 years, the Talking Heads are a band again, even if only onscreen. Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz have assembled once more for the rerelease of “Stop Making Sense,” which arrives in IMAX this week and more theaters on Sept. 29.

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