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True stories [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by David Byrne.

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Criterion Collection, 2018.

Criterion collection ; 951.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Director-approved, two-dvd special ed.

1 videodisc (89 min.) : Dolby digital Surround stereo. sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1986.

Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director David Byrne and cinematographer Ed Lachman ; new documentary about the film’s production, featuring Byrne, Lachman, screenwriter Stephen Tobolowsky, executive producer Edward Pressman, coproducer Karen Murphy, fashion-show costume designer Adelle Lutz, casting director Victoria Thomas, consultant Christina Patoski, actor Jo Harvey Allen, and artist and songwriter Terry Allen ; Real Life (1986), a short documentary by Pamela Yates and Newton Thomas Sigel made on the set of the film ; No Time to Look Back, a new homage to Virgil, Texas, the fictional town where True Stories is set ; new documentary about designer Tibor Kalman and his influence on Byrne and work on the film, featuring Byrne and artist Maira Kalman, Tibor’s widow ; deleted scenes ; trailer ; PLUS: Essays by critic Rebecca Bengal and journalist and author Joe Nick Patoski.

Closed-captioned.

With original music by Talking Heads ; produced by Gary Kurfirst ; directed by David Byrne ; written by Stephen Tobolowsky, Beth Henley, and David Byrne.

John Goodman, Annie McEnroe, Swoosie Kurtz, Spalding Gray, Pops Staples, Tito Larriva and David Byrne.

"Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation of what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. The Talking Heads front man plays a visitor to Virgil, Texas, who introduces us to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman, Texas becomes a hyperrealistic late-capitalist landscape of endless vistas, shopping malls, and prefab metal buildings. In True Stories, Byrne uses his songs to stitch together pop iconography, voodoo rituals, and a singular variety show—all in the service of uncovering the rich mysteries that lurk under the surface of everyday experience."--Container.

Satirical films.

Surrealist films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Byrne, David, 1952-

Goodman, John, 1952-

Kurtz, Swoosie.

Gray, Spalding, 1941-2004.

Talking Heads (Musical group)

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