True Stories

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Call Number: Blu-ray Musical True
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Musical True	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Musical True	1-week checkout	Due 05-03-2024

Originally released as a motion picture in 1986.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director David Byrne and cinematographer Ed Lachman; New documentary about the film's production, featuring Byrne, Lachman, screenwriter Stephen Tobolowsky, executive producer Edward Pressman, coproducer Karen Murphy, fashion-show costume designer Adelle Lutz, casting director Victoria Thomas, consultant Christina Patoski, actor Jo Harvey Allen, and artist and songwriter Terry Allen; CD containing the film's complete soundtrack, compiled here for the first time; Real Life (1986), a short documentary by Pamela Yates and Newton Thomas Sigel, made on the set of the film; No Time to Look Back, a new homage to Virgil, Texas, the fictional town where True Stories is set; New documentary about designer Tibor Kalman and his influence on Byrne and work on the film, featuring Byrne and artist Maira Kalman, Tibor's widow; Deleted scenes; Trailer; plus: A folded insert with essays by critic Rebecca Bengal, journalist/author Joe Nick Patoski, and Byrne; a 1986 piece by actor Spalding Gray on the film's production; and a selection of production photography, along with Byrne's tabloid clippings ane writing about the film's visual motifs.
Disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. The complete True Stories soundtrack.
Soundtrack: Road song -- Freeway son -- Disco hits! -- Cocktail desperado -- Wild wild life -- City of steel -- Mall muzak -- Dream operator -- Love theme from True Stories -- Brownie's theme -- Dinner music -- Puzzlin' evidence -- Glass operator -- Hey now -- I <3 metal buildings -- Love for sale -- Soy de tejas -- Buster's theme -- Festa para um rei negro -- Radio head -- Papa legba -- People like us -- City of dreams.
John Goodman, Annie McEnroe, Jo Harvey Allen, Spalding Gray, Alix Elias, Roebuck "Pops" Staples, Humberto "Tito" Larriva, John Ingle, Matthew Posey, David Byrne, Swoosie Kurtz.
"Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation of what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. The Talking Heads front man plays a visitor to Virgil, Texas, who introduces us to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman, Texas becomes a hyperrealistic late-capitalist landscape of endless vistas, shopping malls, and prefab metal buildings. In True Stories, Byrne uses his songs to stitch together pop iconography, voodoo rituals, and a singular variety show--all in the service of uncovering the rich mysteries that lurk under the surface of everyday experience"--Container
Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround.

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