Movies by David Byrne

FeeLee. History of a Single Label

FeeLee. History of a Single Label

If it were necessary to describe the history of independent rock music in Russia in one word, then this word would be Gorbushka. It is a password that has not needed explanation for more than 30 years. This is the Feelee music company, a celebration of the open-air free industry and a true portal to world music, ranging from Nick Cave and Coil to Sonic Youth and Rage Against the Machine. The film, based on archival footage and eyewitness accounts, tells how Feelee has come a long way, changing with the country and changing the country, and a...

Talking Heads - Chronology

Talking Heads - Chronology

Chronology pulls together live performances from across Talking Heads' career. It starts with their earliest days at CBGB and The Kitchen in New York City in the mid-seventies, through their breakthrough years in the late seventies and on to global success in the eighties. They completed their last tour in 1983 although they would continue to make very successful albums throughout the eighties before officially breaking up in 1991. The DVD concludes with their "reunion" performance of "Life During Wartime" on their induction into the Rock `n...

Talking Heads: Capitol Theatre

Talking Heads: Capitol Theatre

Rare concert footage of Talking Heads performing during their legendary Remain in Light trek has been unearthed after 35 years. Filmed four years before the band's concert film Stop Making Sense, this 80-minute performance was taped in stark black-and-white at Passiac, New Jersey's Capitol Theatre on November 4, 1980. The show came less than a month after the quartet released their landmark Remain in Light, and five of the gig's 14 songs are culled from that album.

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach: Sessions at West 54th

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach: Sessions at West 54th

Meet the match made in pop heaven, when the singer-songwriter and the 1960s hitmaking composer collaborated on the 1998 album Painted From Memory, featuring the GRAMMY Award-winning song “I Still Have That Other Girl.” Their magical sessions were captured in this special episode of Sessions at West 54th, hosted by David Byrne.

The Making of True Stories

The Making of True Stories

The making of a film about a bunch of people in Virgil, Texas.

Wandering Heart

Wandering Heart

Wandering Heart intimately follows Caetano from São Paulo to New York and Japan, during the release of his first album recorded solely in English. It takes considerably more than a week-long series of shows at Carnegie Hall, accolades in the New York Times, or the admiration of friends like Pedro Almodóvar, David Byrne and Michelangelo Antonioni to make Caetano feel comfortable outside of Brazil.

The Man Who Bottled Clouds

The Man Who Bottled Clouds

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.

Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s

Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s

A look at "rock and roll" and other pop music based film of the 1970s.