dir. David Byrne
1986 // 1 hr 29 min // Digital Projection
Starring: David Byrne, John Goodman, Spalding Gray, Swoosie Kurtz, The Talking Heads
Inspired by tabloid headlines, music icon David Byrne stepped behind the camera for the idiosyncratic TRUE STORIES. When a mysterious visitor arrives in the the town of Virgil, TX, he meets several eccentric citizens as they prepare for its 'Celebration for Specialness'. Ace cinematographer Ed Lachman (with music by Talking Heads) evokes a hyperrealistic late-capitalist landscape of voodoo rituals, shopping malls, conspiracy theories, and pre-fab buildings in this tribute to extraordinariness of the ordinary.
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