Thanks to the British Film Institute, there’s a list of films that played Scala. To celebrate the release of Severin’s new documentary, I’ll share a few of these movies every day. You can see the whole list on Letterboxd.

Directed by Jonathan Demme, this concert film was made over four nights in December 1983 at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre while the band was on tour promoting their 1983 album, Speaking in Tongues. The band, who raised all of the money themselves for this, appear alongside backing singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt, guitarist Alex Weir, keyboardist Bernie Worrell and percussionist Steve Scales.

Starting with Byrne walking on stage with just an acoustic guitar and a boom box to play “Psycho Killer,” the band and the screens behind them build between Weymouth joining for “Heaven,” Frantz for “Thank You for Sending Me an Angel” and Harrison for “Found a Job” with the full band and stage set complete for “Burning Down the House.”

Demme wanted to include more shots of the audience reacting to the performance — we don’t see them until “Crosseyed and Painless” — but when he lit the audience, it led to band feeling insecure and “the worst Talking Heads performance in the history of the band’s career.”

I can’t think of a more perfect concert film, between the performances of “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” — which is the song most important to my wife and me — and Weymouth and Franz becoming the Tom Tom Club to rock on “Genius of Love” while Byrne puts on what would become his signature giant suit. Why the suit? As Byrne answers in the promotional interviews for this, “I wanted my head to appear smaller, and the easiest way to do that was to make my body bigger, because music is very physical and often the body understands it before the head.”

It’s incredible that the A24 4K release is just sitting on the shelf in your local Walmart, ready to be the best piece of media in your collection. Get it as soon as you can.