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"I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films."

Jonathan Demme, American Director

Performance, Sense

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"I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films."

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