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 film from director Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake, The Wind that Shakes the Barley).

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

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

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  • His past was kept from him. His search for answers has just begun.

     

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  • From Oscar-nominated director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, comes an adventure-filled adaptation of The Borrowers.

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  • Introduced by film critic and author of Mavericks: Interviews with the World's Iconoclast Filmmakers, Gerald Peary. 

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  • The new ecopolitical thriller from  Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy).

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  • The new movie from filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun (We're All Going to the World's Fair).

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  • The bizarre and terrifying story of a psychotic killer.

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  • Did Someone Say Action?

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  • When the smoke clears, it just means he's reloading.

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  • mothers of today

    New England premiere of 35mm restoration, featuring post-film Q&A with NCJF Directors Sharon Pucker Rivo & Lisa Rivo!

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  • George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Don Cheadle go for broke to pull off the most sophisticated and daring Las Vegas casino heist ever.

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  • From the Studio Ghibli and director Hayao Miyazaki, comes the Oscar-nominated fantasy adventure for the whole family.

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  • Boston's one and only open mic night for filmmakers!

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