Demme x 2: Married to the Mob and Stop Making Sense
Passing away at the age of 73, the great Jonathan Demme left behind a full-bodied, humanist filmography. To celebrate his career, we’re presenting a pair of highlights from his work in the 1980s: his playful, romantic crime comedy Married to the Mob and Stop Making Sense, considered by many to be the greatest concert movie ever.
Jonathan Demme
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1988|
USA|
104 minutes
With its cast of oddball characters, evocative sense of place, and idiosyncratic soundtrack (featuring a score by David Byrne), this genial story about a woman’s dream to change her life is as playful and romantic as it is offbeat and perilous—the kind of mafia movie only Jonathan Demme could have made.
Jonathan Demme
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1984|
USA|
88 minutes
Considered by many to be the greatest concert movie ever made, Jonathan Demme’s groundbreaking Talking Heads film, filmed across three live shows at Los Angeles’s Pantages Theater, is aurally exuberant and visually stunning.
Passing away at the age of 73, the great Jonathan Demme left behind a full-bodied, humanist filmography. To celebrate his career, we’re presenting a pair of highlights from his work in the 1980s: his playful, romantic crime comedy Married to the Mob and Stop Making Sense, considered by many to be the greatest concert movie ever.
