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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: October 10, 1986 |
Starring:
Alix Elias, Annie McEnroe, David Byrne, Jo Harvey Allen, John Goodman, John Ingle, Matthew Posey, Roebuck 'Pops' Staples, Spalding Gray, Tito Larriva
Summary:
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
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True Stories is David Byrne's funny, worried, loving celebration of a disoriented America. [27 Oct 1986, p.103]
True Stories may well appeal more to those who don't know much about Mr. Byrne's music career than those who do. The soundtrack songs have the catchy simplicity of Talking Heads' most recent and least demanding compositions. And the film's imagery, expertly captured in bold, bright colors by Ed Lachman, will be even more striking to those who find it novel.
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Byrne is a major musical artist, as he was shown to be in his rock concert film Stop Making Sense, but as a filmmaker
he has barely stretched his muscles. [31 Oct 1986, p.A]
Byrne is trying for something large scale: a postmodern Nashville. Byrne sets up the material for satirical sequences, yet he doesn't give it a subversive spin. His unacknowledged satire is like a souffle that was never meant to rise.
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