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September 26, 2023

‘Stop Making Sense’ Is Back, and Talking Heads Have More to Say

Jon Pareles The New York Times

The 40th-anniversary restoration of Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense", a great concert film, is a funk spectacle. It has also united the band, which split in 1991, to discuss a landmark achievement.

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July 6, 2021

‘Summer of Soul’ Review: In 1969 Harlem, a Music Festival Stuns

Wesley Morris The New York Times

The movie’s got Sly and the Family Stone and B.B. King and Ray Barretto and Gladys Knight & the Pips, in top, electric form. But no jolt compares to what happens in the middle of this thing— footage from the Harlem Cultural Festival.

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