Storefront Hitchcock

Rock-music lover and feature-film director Jonathan Demme takes on eccentric British singer-songwriter, Robyn Hitchcock, in an ambitious concert film, though tinier in scope than his previous rock-film effort, Stop Making Sense(1984), featuring Talking Heads. Setting up a stage in a New York ...more

Listening to Robyn Hitchcock's songs is similar to experiencing a series of short, seemingly disjointed dreams that, upon waking, are remembered as one large dream whose meaning may not be too clear but leaves a humorous (or unsettling) feeling. Jonathan Demme captures that feeling with his usual expertise in Storefront Hitchcock. Released in 1997, this concert film extends the surreal elements of the songs themselves by including Hitchcock's between song patter. If one finds the meaning of his ...more