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“David Byrne and the Autistic Euphoria of Stop Making Sense

At Little White Lies, Raine Petrie has some thoughts on the re-release of the Talking Heads’ concert movie, Stop Making Sense (1984). “Forty years have now passed, and not only has A24 restored and re-released Stop Making Sense to commemorate the concert film’s anniversary, but the man behind the big suit now proudly identifies as autistic. Reexamining the film with Byrne’s neurodivergence in mind, the film dubbed  ‘the greatest concert movie of all time’ concurrently becomes one of the greatest autistic narratives ever put to film.”

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