True Stories (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) PG
A Completely Cool, Multi-Purpose Movie.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: November 27, 2018
- Originally Released: 1986
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | David Byrne, Swoosie Kurtz, Spalding Gray, Pops Staples, Annie McEnroe, Tito Larriva & John Goodman | |
Performer: | Jo Harvey Allen, Jason Liebrecht & Scott Valentine | |
Directed by | David Byrne | |
Edited by | Caroline Biggerstaff | |
Music by | David Byrne | |
Screenwriting by | Stephen Tobolowsky, Beth Henley & David Byrne | |
Director of Photography: | Edward Lachman |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Stylishly designed....[An] amusing concoction of snappy songs....Stunning picture-postcard cinematography...
Variety
Rating: 2/5 --
good soundtrack, but smothered by a condescending attitude
Kalamazoo Gazette
An exuberant and wonderfully oddball stew of deadpan comedy, character drama, music video, and art installation.
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Flavorwire
Rating: B --
Byrne has made his version of Our Town for the 1980s, a glorification of commonplace--and kitch--and the resilient, inventive spirit of ordinary Americans wherever they are.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
...A pure and jubilant extension of [Byrne's] distinctive world view....Festive...
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
A very quirky but not unkind take on American life that's Byrnian through and through.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
...Joyous, daft and hauntingly original, TRUE STORIES is Byrne's magical mystery tour of Texas...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Talking Heads' ringleader David Byrne makes his directorial debut in this charming low-key musical montage about the mythical town of Virgil, Texas, where the lives of many of its eccentric citizens are exposed.
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- UPC: 715515223713
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