Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense
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Runtime: 1 Hr. 28 Min. Rating: Release Year: 1984 Film Info: Screening format: DCP
Visit Website Director: Jonathan Demme Producer: Gary Goetzman, Gary Kurfirst Screenwriter: Jonathan Demme, Talking Heads Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth Editor: Lisa Day

SCREENING IS NOW ON STANDBY - TICKETS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE!
 
Sponsored by: SRH • Creative & Digital Agency

 

NOTE: 10/26 showing of Stop Making Sense is a premium screening - 6-pack/10-pack/vouchers cannot be redeemed for this screening!

 

Milwaukee’s best annual dance party is back, same as it ever was. In 1984, the late, great Jonathan Demme gave us the defining performance of the Talking Heads, forever changing the way live music was captured on film. Thirty-five years later, it remains the greatest concert film ever made. So dust off your big suit, dance in the aisles, and help us burn down the house! (But no actual fires, please, because this tradition happens more than once in a lifetime.)

 

"A rock orgy of volcanic power, and arguably the greatest concert film ever made."
- Creative Loafing
 
"The overwhelming impression throughout Stop Making Sense is of enormous energy, of life being lived at a joyous high."
- Roger Ebert
 
"It's all so precise even as it is totally loopy, and the music pressed up in our face so urgently and enticingly, that the movie is as close to perfect as it gets."
- Antagony & Ecstasy

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