Ever since Jonathan Demme’s Talking Heads film “Stop Making Sense” picked up its reputation as the best concert movie of all time, David Byrne has kept designing dazzling tours, and prominent directors have kept wanting to capture them. Following Spike Lee’s film rendering of Byrne’s “American Utopia” road show six years ago, now another name filmmaker is bringing the musician’s acclaimed 2025-26 “Who is the Sky?” tour to the big screen — and in large-format cinematography.
Director Brady Corbet, director of “The Brutalist,” is now in postproduction on the new Byrne concert film. And while he did not shoot in VistaVision, as he did on his previous narrative feature, he was still thinking big, shooting the film in a combination of 8-perf and 15-perf 70mm.
“When Brady told me he wanted to shoot our show in 70 millimeter (70 millimeter!) I didn’t realize what a difference it would make until I saw some frames he sent me,” Byrne said in a statement. “He was right, it really does capture the widescreen visual scope of the show. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Reps for the film do not yet have distribution or release details to reveal, including whether there are plans or hopes to place the film largely in 70mm engagements. A media announcement says the movie was shot over multiple nights at the Hippodrome in the artist’s hometown, Baltimore. Shows took place there in May, records show, with attendees noting on social at the time the presence of a filming team.
