True Stories looks resplendent on Criterion’s restored transfer, which emphasizes the heavy color saturation of Ed Lachman’s cinematography.
David Byrne's TRUE STORIES is a pro-human film that's full of humor, charm, and empathy.
That is all. A Story from Chikamatsu (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. A wonderfully fun movie by David Byrne that grows on you the more times you watch it.
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CD containing the film’s complete soundtrack, compiled here for the first time (Blu-ray only)
T rue Stories, David Byrne’s 1986 paean to American eccentricity and ordinariness, called to me from the shelves of a video store in Austin, Texas.
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$39.96 I purchased the digital version that was cropped to standard TV a few years back and loved it.
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If you hate it you are totally entitled to your wrong opinion.
Bonus features include a making of which really underscores the importance of presenting this in its intended format.
True Stories (The Criterion Collection) by A readable copy.
Onsite Associates Program . Supervised and approved by Criterion's technical director Lee Kline, director David Byrne, and cinematographer Ed Lachman, this transfer is a real beauty: True Stories is loaded with color and fine detail, and it's replicated nicely with excellent saturation and a natural, organic appearance that reveals a great deal of texture and other fine elements.
A movie far ahead of its time.
This is one of my favorite movies, a warm-hearted pastiche of life in a small Texas town.
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Other patrons behind me kept shouting, "Shut up!
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And along the way, Byrne's earnest yet silly commentary guides us along. New documentary about the film’s production, featuring Byrne, Lachman, and others
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It's NOT FUNNY!"
The deluxe treatment this movie truly deserves.
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I just received and watched my Blu-Ray copy, and it does not at all disappoint.
David Byrne’s solo feature film True Stories receives a new Blu-ray edition from the Criterion Collection, and is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on a dual-layer disc.
I'm in the love camp.
Go watch Transformers or something. This version is visually crisp in widescreen with 5.1 surround DTS-HD... what an upgrade!
Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text.
In In this video, artist Adelle Lutz and director David Byrne discuss the weird and wonderful outfits in a particularly outrageous set piece in the film.David Byrne cracked open the profound strangeness of small-town Texas in this wonderfully symphonic film, his sole foray into narrative-feature directing.The acclaimed actor chatted with us about his fondest movie memories, including his experience of discovering art-house cinema in Catholic school.Next week at the SXSW Film Festival, the Talking Heads frontman’s first and only feature film screens in our 4K restoration, with the director in attendance.Things got a little hectic (and hilarious) when New York comedians Jaboukie Young-White, Lorelei Ramirez, Fumi Abe, Nore Davis, and Tomas Delgado visited the Criterion offices.Get info about new releases, essays and interviews on the Current, Top 10 lists, and sales.