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David Byrne’s American Utopia: Spike Lee’s once-in-a-lifetime concert movie – Stuff.co.nz
REVIEW: A flat-out triumph. On the biggest screen you can find – and with everything dialed up to 11 – you’ll have a sensational experience.
American Utopia (M, 105 mins) Directed by Spike Lee *****
I can’t stand David Byrne. I love David Byrne.
I can’t stand his control, his poise, his sheer nerdishness, the air of remove and effete intellectualism that he allows to colour so much of his image. I can’t stand his insistence on uniformity of movement, his removal of everything haphazard and accidental from his stage shows. And, I definitely can’t stand the way he still mines the Talking Heads back-catalogue, even though he dismisses…
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