David Byrne: A Talking Head's Guide To The Big Country
Mat Snow, NME, 6 September 1986
COMING SOON to a cinema near you is one of this year's funniest yet most thought-provoking films. It is called True Stories, and is a mosaic of pilfered, hybridised ideas and images which add up to a surprisingly coherent whole.
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