“Stop Making Sense” and a Pedro Almodóvar short-film double feature, “Strange Way of Life” and “The Human Voice,” are opening at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center Oct. 6.
The greatest concert film of all time, “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 an ecstatic ensemble of supporting musicians. 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.
“Stop Making Sense” is rated PG for brief suggestive material, and is playing at the Ross through Oct. 12.
“Strange Way of Life” tells the story of a man riding a horse across the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to visit Sheriff Jake. Twenty-five years earlier, both the sheriff and Silva, the rancher who rides out to meet him, worked together as hired gunmen. Silva visits him with the excuse of reuniting with his friend from his youth, and they do indeed celebrate their meeting, but the next morning Sheriff Jake tells him that the reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their old friendship.
In “Human Voice,” a woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn’t understand that his master has abandoned him.
Both films are rated R for some drug content, nude images, sexual content, language, bloody images, and are playing at the Ross Oct. 19.
Learn more about the films, including show times and ticket availability.
