If you're a Heads fan, you'll love it. If you're not a Heads fan, you'll probably still love it.

More Fear of Music would have made it even better.

Private concert in your living room.

So exuberant, so inventive, so bright and brilliant that it stands as a mighty contender in the ongoing debate about what deserves the designation Greatest Concert Film Ever. The band delivers their own unique, vibrant staging and a thrillingly energetic concert performance, and Demme's visual sense is astounding. The camera is often in an entirely unexpected place, and yet it's also always a perfectly positioned, so much so that it's hard to conceive of why anyone would place it elsewhere.

If it's not the best concert film ever, it's the best I've seen. Completely awesome both for its music and for its merits as a film, with some absolutely great versions of classic Talking Heads tracks (the versions of "Life During Wartime," "This Must Be the Place" and "Heaven" here are essential). Fantastic visuals (the chiaroscuro lighting on some of the performances was really something), great music, engaging performances - it's a blast.

I missed "Road to nowhere"...

Talking Heads... bit good wern't they!

After the hype and all the great things I've heard about this all I can say is: What a let down. To truly be enamored you have to either, 1) love the Talking Heads, or, 2) have never been/seen a live show in your entire life. Fortunately, I land in neither of those camps.

Great performance, great direction, great movie.

It's...impossible...to...sit...still...

My favorite concert film of all time.

I don't care if it's just a concert movie. It's the Talking Heads, whom I love.

When we get time travel I am so going to this concert! :D

Such a great film. So mch energy, and wonderful songs!

Innovative? Hardly. It starts and ends with credits and in between there is only music. It dispenses with backstage footage and (ha ha) talking-head interviews; this is a performance, with a fair amount of narrative-film-specific artifice, not a documentary. It puts the money shots of a pleased audience where they belong, at the end. It's even shot on 35mm, for God's sake. No concert film ever made needs anything more.

Life During Wartime. Hands down the greatest concert flick ever.

If I could go to any concert in history, it would probably be this one. Considering how much energy there is coming through Demme's camera, I can only imagine how much energy there is at the real thing. There are so many great moments in this concert both audio and visual. I just can't choose a favorite moment. If you watch this and your head isn't bobbing the entire time then something is certainly wrong with you. I don't know. This film is really awesome. (three times)

My god...the awesomeness!

If I had a time machine I would go back to when this movie was made and be at the concerts. Nobody puts on a show now a days like the Talking Heads of '84. I will always remember the band as the one in this movie. All the songs sound better than their studio recordings. The direction was brilliant, especially the long uncut shots. And who can not make way to the legend that is David Byrne. Simply put, the man is a genius. For what it is, a concert movie, Stop Making Sense is perfection.

Wasn't quite sure how I would react to a concert movie but this blew my mind.

An amazing performance captured masterfully. The extra footage of Byrne interviewing himself is hilarious.

The ultimate anti-concert. No backstage antics, no interviews, no "Hello, Cleveland," no stagedives. This is a rare concert film that treats each song as its own visual composition rather than a recording of music being played. Not to mention that Talking Heads were at the top of their game at this stage, and the added musicians only enhance the performance. Very highly recommended to any fan of the band or of music in general.

Even if this were a one-take shoot off a video camera, the strength of the terrific songs make it great. Instead of flashiness, it's a minimalist visual experience that allows full appreciation of the performers and the music. "Life During Wartime" is the highlight of the whole film, with David Byrne integrating aerobics into the performance! Not just for fans of Talking Heads, but rather anyone who wants 90 minutes of musical fun.

This would be my favourite film of all time... if I liked the Talking Heads.

This is a nicely captured performance. Still for a nonenthusiast of Talking Heads it's just another concert

it's kind of difficult to get a 'note' (TALKING HEADS!), but this is perfect, a masterpiece, flawless, etc.

I can't gush enough about this. There's no interviews, no behind-the-scenes footage, no fans, no animation, no fantasy sequences. Just 9 musicians and their instruments, a floor lamp, and a big suit. With these sparse tools, Demme and Byrne crafted the finest performance film I've ever seen. Engaging, energetic, and completely infectious. Through variations in lighting, staging and dance, they manage to make give every song a distinct visual feel.

Wacky world of Talking heads

The minute David Byrne enters the stage with a boombox, you know you're watching something special. And when he returns in that famous white suit... fuuuuuuck.

Infectiously energetic. Just a wonderful event that everyone should experience.

Very nice. But I was disappointed that this focused so heavily on Speaking With Tongues, which I just never cared as much for.