Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense

Shake off the January blues with a special evening in the Sunset Lounge dedicated to Talking Heads featuring a screening of the acclaimed concert film Stop Making Sense. Dance on the dance floor, choose from themed specialty cocktails and mocktails, and grab a bite from our Sunset Lounge menu!   

Stop Making Sense brings to the screen Talking Heads at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983: David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison, alongside backing singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt, guitarist Alex Weir, keyboardist Bernie Worrell and percussionist Steve Scales. Regarded as the best concert film of all time, renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) captures the band at their exhilarating best, in this new and complete restoration for the film's 40th anniversary. 

Watch trailer >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rjMwSTeVeo 

Stop Making Sense was shot while Talking Heads were on tour promoting their 1983 album, Speaking in Tongues. Stop Making Sense includes performances of the early Talking Heads single, "Psycho Killer" (1977), through to their most recent hit at the time, "Burning Down the House" (1983). It also includes songs from the solo career of frontman David Byrne and by Tom Tom Club, the side project of drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth. 

In 2021, Stop Making Sense was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."  A special 4K restoration of the film was re-released in theaters in September 2023 by A24; this event will show the restored version.