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Talking Heads reunite onstage after 21 years for film festival's 'Stop Making Sense' Q&A

From left, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison and David Byrne of the Talking Heads attend the "Stop Making Sense" premiere during the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival at Scotiabank Theatre on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, in Toronto.

TORONTO — A new 4K Imax restoration of Jonathan Demme's "Stop Making Sense," the classic concert film of Talking Heads playing a series of shows at Los Angeles' Pantages Theater in December 1983, had its world premiere on Monday night at the Toronto International Film Festival, with the band in attendance.

"This is why we come to movie theaters," said Heads frontman David Byrne during a post-screening

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