The Brock University Film Society (BUFS) season continues Sunday, Oct. 22 with a screening of the 40th anniversary 4K re-release of Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense, which immortalized Talking Heads concerts from the 1983 Speaking in Tongues tour.

“A talented and aspiring director teamed up with the band at the peak of their powers and the height of their artistic ambitions,” says Associate Professor Anthony Kinik in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film. “Together, Demme and David Byrne, the band’s singer, lyricist and resident performance artist, deconstructed the concert film, stripping it of its clichés and excesses, and then reconstructed it as something both mysterious and mesmerizing.”

Demme went on to make several acclaimed independent and blockbuster films, including Married to the Mob, The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia. He also continued to make music videos for the likes of New Order and Bruce Springsteen and to make rockumentaries — notably, Neil Young’s Heart of Gold and Trunk Show — throughout his career.

Stop Making Sense screens Sunday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. at the Film House in downtown St. Catharines. Tickets for all screenings are available at the Film House. General admission is $9.50 or $7.50 for Film House members, plus tax.

Learn more about this and upcoming screenings on the BUFS website.