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      Ride, Rise, Roar

      2010 1 hr. 27 min. Documentary Music List
      78% 9 Reviews Tomatometer 71% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score Filmmaker David Hillman Curtis follows David Byrne and the Talking Heads as they prepare for and perform their 2008-09 concert tour. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member I should prelude this by saying the band is superb, the songs sound superb and audio gets a solid 9. However the overall product left me scratching my head too often. I always have respect for artists who try to push the boundaries of what they do later in their careers, but the problem here is that Ride, Rise, Roar isn't really that different. It's like a karaoke version of Stop Making Sense. The whole premise of the visual experience is dancing, but SMS already had choreographed on-stage dancing. The difference is that it was more natural and uniform and rhythmically in-tempo with the hypnotic music. This film features what look like three Stanford grads spazz dancing for an hour and a half. It doesn't ad any deeper meaning to the melodic or lyrical content. Instead of interpretive dance they might as well have just hired actors to pantomime scenes. What I think this project forgot was that David Byrne was and will always be the centerpiece, even in the Talking Heads days. This concert concept tries desperately to make you interested in these dancers who get in the way of the only person on stage with actual presence. Stop Making Sense got it right, Byrne danced and everyone else mimicked his movements, creating a giant framework that directed the audience attention perfectly. RRR is an on-stage free-for-all. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member David Byrne is the man! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Probably doesn't show enough of the creative process to be a real insight into David Byrne and cutting away from the concert footage to interviews about the creative process diminishes the excitement of the concert. What it did do was make me want to buy some more Talking Heads CDs. And that's not a bad thing. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member The director could have been a little less fancy and let us see the dancers clearly. That was sort of the point. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A great film if you're a David Byrne or a Talking Heads fan. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member From a musical and performance point of view this film is great. However, whilst the interviews with Byrne, the band members, dancers, Eno and the production crew are interesting, mixing them in between the songs disrupts the mood, taking you out of the concert experience. On DVD/Blu-Ray they really should have been made available just as extra material to make it easier to rewatch the concert. Now onto the subject of having dancers with the band: They were a little distracting at times but seeing them at an actual live show was great. From a fixed position in the crowd you could watch either the overall choreography during a song or focus on the movement of individual dancers. Watching the film, with its multiple camera angles, close ups and cuts, you lose track of what is going on. And just when you start to follow a particular set of steps, an edit jumps you somewhere else. So for me 'Ride, Rise, Roar' is good but a little frustrating. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Joe Leydon Variety This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no humdrum concert documentary. Jul 7, 2021 Full Review Empire Magazine Rated: 3/5 Jan 28, 2011 Full Review Katie McCabe Little White Lies Everything that happens... will soon be forgotten. Rated: 2/5 Jan 20, 2011 Full Review Amie Simon Three Imaginary Girls Watching those dancers move to the beat of songs I've always loved while Byrne sang and moved with them was entertaining, fascinating, and at times emotional. Mar 9, 2019 Full Review Kevin Harley Total Film With only his silver-fox thatch betraying the years since classic Stop Making Sense, Byrne wriggles and writhes through a groovy set of polyrhythmic pop. Rated: 3/5 Jan 28, 2011 Full Review Matthew Turner ViewLondon Entertaining behind-the-scenes music tour documentary film, enlivened by some terrific songs and some amusingly offbeat dance routines... Rated: 3/5 Jan 21, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Filmmaker David Hillman Curtis follows David Byrne and the Talking Heads as they prepare for and perform their 2008-09 concert tour.
      Director
      David Hillman Curtis
      Genre
      Documentary, Music
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 14, 2020
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