Genre: Comedy, Music
Actor: Annie McEnroe, David Byrne, Jo Harvey Allen, John Goodman, Matthew Posey, Scott Valentine, Spalding Gray, Swoosie Kurtz, Tito Larriva
Director: David Byrne
1. True Stories, 1986
When artists or musical bands make films, it’s usually a tour documentary or a biopic of some sort, where fans can go in depth with their music, their background, or anything that would explain what makes their music so great. When Talking Heads’ lead vocalist David Byrne made a film, it wasn’t about his hometown in Maryland or his birthplace in Scotland at all– Instead, it was about True Stories, compiling a series of vignettes in a fictional North Texan town. It’s a strange choice, but Byrne manages to capture the bizarre in ordinary small town America, that can get a bit surreal, but nonetheless holds a weird charm that’s excellently scored by the band. True Stories came out of nowhere, but it’s a decent watch.