Staff Pick: Stop Making Sense

Floor staff supervisor Greg Vellante is here with our latest Coolidge Staff Pick, highlighting Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense.

"Every time we've shown it there's been people moving in their seats, bobbing up and down, and there's even been people dancing in the aisles" Vellante says. "While it's not quite the same, you can bring this experience into your living room and have a little dance party with yourself, with your significant other, with your family."

Watch the intro below, and then sit down to watch the film, which is streaming on The Criterion Channel and Amazon Prime, and available to rent on most platforms.

You can also watch some of our videos with director Jonathan Demme, who was our seventh Coolidge Award honoree. In the video below, he discusses Stop Making Sense.

About Coolidge Staff Picks

While our building may be closed, we're still here to provide the personalized, curated programming you love. We'll be posting Coolidge Staff Picks that you can rent or stream from home, with short video introductions from staff members! For many of them, we'll also be posting clips from past Q&As, discussions, Science on Screen lectures, and more.

This Week

  • The new centuries-spanning sci-fi romance from filmmaker Bertrand Bonello, starring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay. 

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  • The new film from Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) starring Josh O'Connor (God's Own Country).

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  • Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, from director Wim Wenders. 

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  • A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy.

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  • The new film from writer and director Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation), starring Kirsten Dunst.

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  • A year in the life of a singular family.

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  • A comedy about love in the '90s.

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  • Denis Villeneuve's sequel to his Oscar winning adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal bestseller.

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  • The new film from Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name), starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist.

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  • New 4K digital restoration of the Jean-Pierre Melville classic. 

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  • Night of the Living Dead

    Featuring an introduction from Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, founder and president of the George A. Romero Foundation.

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  • Dawn of the Dead (1978)

    Featuring an introduction from George A. Romero Foundation COO Jeff Whitehead and author Adam Charles Hart.

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  • A 2023 production, featuring the Paris Opera Ballet.

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  • Maria San Filippo (Emerson College) will explore the film's production history and genre revisionism.

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  • Desperately Seeking Susan

    It's a life so outrageous it takes two women to live it.

     

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  • Every hero has a choice, to face the darkness... or be consumed by it.

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  • Featuring a haunting score Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind.

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  • Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film in ten years is a hand-drawn, original story written and directed by the Oscar-winning director.

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