A24 Podcast - David said he watched all the British Hitchcocks over the pandemic because he didn't want to watch anything too emotionally heavy since he was watching movies at the end of the day after he cooked dinner while he was sitting down to eat (celebrities really are just like us folks)

A24 Podcast - he said he loves them

A24 podcast - they're so different than what he or Mike Mills would do

A24 Podcast - they're so tightly plotted

A24 Podcast - so manipulative

A24 - every moment is leading you

A24 podcast - it's like a jewel

A24 podcast - marvel at that clockwork aspect

A24 podcast

A24 podcast

A24 podcast

A24 podcast

A24 podcast

he got very giddy discussing the plot of this film in conversation with TCM, he said it's his favorite Powell & Pressburger

letterboxd got him on this one lol, i need this man to tell me more movies he likes. every time he mentions one it's interesting

if you can check David talking about this on TCM on 6/8 out, he clearly really cares about it and it's lovely to see a fellow film fan geek out

Blog: Watched “A Streetcar Named Desire” while we were in NOLA. Some very theatrical shit there. I guess the streetcars used to run as far as Bywater back in the day, as that’s where Desire street is. Maybe this play was shocking back in the day, but now one is hardly shocked that Blanche might have used men to pay her debts and bolster her needy sense of self. The “filmed-play” style of the movie is a bit alienating as well…the acting is very theatrical, as is the dialogue.

"like the playing cards in Alice in Wonderland" Q&A at the Pantages 6/4

talked about Cary Grant's suit in this movie in conversation with tcm

cited as one of his favorite scores (though all the Hitchcock films Herrmann scored were) in conversation with tcm

www.mtv.com/news/151031/david-byrne/

someone asked him what the best film of all time was

Letterboxd top four :)

one of his best film answers

In the suggested reading for How Music Works

in conversation with TCM, cited as one of the best film scores

one of his best film answers

PBS interview

he was an usher when this came out, he did not want to watch more than once lol (awards chatter pod)

PBS interview

one of his best film answers

mentioned as an inspiration for true stories

Bicycle Diaries, still talking about how Australia is murderous through nature

Smartless podcast 

Letterboxd top 4 :)

called out as a Demme film he was a fan of before Stop Making Sense (https://davidbyrne.com/journal/jonathan-demme-rest-in-peace)

Talks about it when he talks about Turkey in Bicycle Diaries

called out as a Demme film he was a fan of before Stop Making Sense (https://davidbyrne.com/journal/jonathan-demme-rest-in-peace)

David told ME (and an entire audience but I was the one who asked the question) that this was a film that inspired him when he made true stories

www.mtv.com/news/151031/david-byrne/

A24 podcast. "I was a little dictator, I said it's my way or the highway. It all worked out okay but it could have been a more pleasant experience"

Thanks to Tay for pointing out that this is the movie that David references in Bicycle Diaries here: "I once saw a wonderful Turkish film in which a respected theater director takes a quick job acting in a shampoo commercial, only to find himself stuck living in the imaginary world of the characters in the ment. His new family knows him only as the character in the ad, and they know what he does for a living, etc., but he, the actor, has no idea. After some initial befuddlement, he gives in and attempts to adjust to his new life."

Byrne, David. Bicycle Diaries (pp. 46-47). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

He made it so you know.

A24 podcast - Mike Mills asked David if he and Spalding Gray were friends ("not really but I knew his work"). He said he was coming out of being a little dictator then lol. He didn't want it to be in it - he wanted Willard Scott or a radio guy to be the narrator. His line director protected him from the bad things happening on the set (like environmentally), as he probably needed to be.

Blog: Jim Jarmusch’s film. Some lovely New Orleans background shot by Robbie Müller. A LOT of films are shooting here now.

TCM Two for One on 6/8/24

one of his best film answers

www.mtv.com/news/151031/david-byrne/

www.wnyc.org/story/296364-guest-picks-david-byrne/

What have you read or seen over the past year (book, play, film, etc…) that moved or surprised you?

I assume this conversation is on the criterion release of the movie but I've seen it on the channel

mentioned in conversation with joe boyd because a chapter in boyd's book is named after the movie, david said "you could watch it on streaming but it used to be hard to find" even though you can't watch it on streaming and it's still hard to find LOL

www.mtv.com/news/151031/david-byrne/

www.mtv.com/news/151031/david-byrne/

Bicycle Diaries, he talks about how Australia is trying to kill everyone who goes there.

"It is a wonderful example of how we humans can deceive ourselves, delude ourselves, and blinker ourselves."

Byrne, David. Bicycle Diaries (p. 72). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

In Bicycle Diaries he mentions it when talking about the real road.

www.wnyc.org/story/296364-guest-picks-david-byrne/

What have you read or seen over the past year (book, play, film, etc…) that moved or surprised you?

blog!

Blog: Spike Lee’s 4-part doc on Katrina. Amazing. There’s a follow-up series I haven’t seen yet.

References it when talking about the Stasi Museum in Bicycle Diaries, so presumably he's seen it.

someone saw him at IFC center seeing it in 2006 lol

pretty sure this is the film he's referencing in Bicycle Diaries

Blog: When The Levees Broke—Spike Lee’s 4-part doc on Katrina. Amazing. There’s a follow-up series I haven’t seen yet. (presuming he has seen this part now lol)

Placeholder for all (well not all because he says he hasn't seen all of them) Marvel and DC movies that David has seen :) 

Smartless podcast 

Blog: A Jonathan Demme doc about a woman in the Holy Cross neighborhood rebuilding her home post Katrina.

He was on the jury at Venice that year, from his blog: The Golden Lion Award—A re-imagining of Faust using much of the original German text by Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov. I met the actor who played Mephistopheles, the devil, after the awards ceremony—he was a dancer, not an actor and used to play in a band. Sokurov made an imioned speech at the press conference in which he pleaded for more state and foundation for the arts and humanities, saying that if we lose our deep culture we are nobodies, nothing. He ended by saying, and this could be a bad translation "We don't need the audience, the audience [the public] needs us!" It bordered on arrogance, but he's certainly got a point.

After the awards he got calls of congratulations from Putin, the first of which he didn't pick up, so Putin called again! Word has it that he said the same things to Putin—that without , much art and culture will not survive.

Venice Film Fest 2011, from his blog: The Silver Lion Award went to People Mountian People Sea by Shangjun Cai. It's a film that follows the lead character's descent into Hell in search of the killer of his brother. We see a side of China most of us have never seen before—junkies, shantytowns, illegal mines and a criminal underclass—so not surprisingly this film was not announced in the running until it was certain that the director and the film had made it to Venice. Even so, the first screening was cancelled due to glitches in the of the film file from China, the second screening was interrupted by a fire scare in which the theater was evacuated and the third screening was interrupted as well, for technical reasons. One might be tempted to look for a conspiracy...

Venice Film Fest 2011, blog: Special Jury Prize (effectively 3rd place) went to Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese. This was the most accessible and popular of our selections, a film that deals with changing economics on a small volcanic island off the coast of Italy and the influx of African immigrants/illegals. A timely subject and beautifully shot. Many of the "actors" were real fishermen and recent African immigrants who had gone through similar experiences. One of the main actors, an older man, is, in real life, a clown. The young male lead was worthy of a prize, though we decided early on to "spread the wealth" and not double up prizes.

Best actor went to Michael Fassbender for his work in Steve McQueen's Shame. As with his work with McQueen on Hunger, Fassbender goes places most actors wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. This film is about a sex addict, so you can imagine. Carey Mulligan is surprising as well, miles from the sweet girl we've come to know in recent movies.

someone tweeted that they saw this at IFC center and David was in their audience and looked for an open seat for a while because people kept telling him the seats near him were saved, just so you know David Byrne you can sit next to me no matter who that seat is intended for

he introed it at IFC center when it came out

mentioned in Your Song Changed My Life when he's talking about playing in coffeeshops as a teenager

lol knowing david watched this (awards chatter pod)

he watched it in prep for Theater of the Mind

Instagram!!!! 

A24 Podcast. First film in a theater since the pandemic started.

David said he watched everything that Henry Louis Gates has done over quarantine so this is a placeholder for literally everything LOL

He called himself a fanboy in the moment when he saw Henry Louis Gates and approached him lol like he had nothing to say to him (a situation I will never be in with David Byrne as a fangirl myself because I have many non-music related questions for him lol).

since he watched a rough cut with no FX or music he said he spent the 1st 20 minutes wondering why the daniels created an "Asian domestic drama" lmfao

technically a tv show but it's on here, he talked about watching it on david spade and dana carvey's podcast

"no I had no idea... it's not like the... the Spielberg movie where the guy's like ten years old making movies with his train set" at the sms event at the Pantages 6/4

Letterboxd top four :)

i just know he saw this at the NYFF lol

another one I haven't heard him talk about but I know he was at the nyff premiere and also i NEED to talk to him about this film holy hell

someone saw him in the audience at nyff 61

someone saw him at a screening at nyff 61

thanks to Matt on here for telling me he saw David at this at nyff61!

someone saw him at nyff 61

he was at a screening on 12/14 hosted by Jake Gyllenhaal lol

he was at premiere at Lincoln Center

he went to the tribeca premiere on 6/11/24!

it's nyff season again! someone saw David at their screening of this on 9/28/2024!

DB went to a screening of this at Metrograph on 10/22/2024

DB went to a screening of this at Metrograph on 12/17

DB went to the premiere of this at AMC Lincoln Square on 5/13