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 podcast - marvel at that clockwork aspect

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

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)

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

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"

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

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

"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 

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

lol knowing david watched this (awards chatter pod)

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

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

"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!

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 12/17