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By Hank Reineke
In March of 2019 I took a drive to the Hudson River town of Nyack, New York, for a rare public screening of Bob Dylan’s ill-fated cinematic opus Renaldo & Clara. The film, originally released to art houses in New York City and Los Angeles January of 1978, was mercilessly panned. The movie – shot during Dylan’s fabled autumn 1975 tour with his ragtag Rolling Thunder Revue – all but disappeared from cinemas and, mostly, from public consciousness within the span of a few weeks. The original cut of the film was, let’s charitably say, a rambling affair, clocking in at just under four hours.
Dylan would tell his co-writer, the playwright Sam Shepard, that he was looking to model his film after a pair of French classics: Marcel Carné’s Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945) and Francois Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player (1960). Or,...
By Hank Reineke
In March of 2019 I took a drive to the Hudson River town of Nyack, New York, for a rare public screening of Bob Dylan’s ill-fated cinematic opus Renaldo & Clara. The film, originally released to art houses in New York City and Los Angeles January of 1978, was mercilessly panned. The movie – shot during Dylan’s fabled autumn 1975 tour with his ragtag Rolling Thunder Revue – all but disappeared from cinemas and, mostly, from public consciousness within the span of a few weeks. The original cut of the film was, let’s charitably say, a rambling affair, clocking in at just under four hours.
Dylan would tell his co-writer, the playwright Sam Shepard, that he was looking to model his film after a pair of French classics: Marcel Carné’s Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945) and Francois Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player (1960). Or,...
- 1/25/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Early on in Martin Scorsese’s new documentary The Rolling Thunder Revue, Bob Dylan tries to explain the idea behind legendary 1975/76 tour and quickly grows flustered. “I’m trying to get to the core of what this Rolling Thunder thing is all about,” he says, “and I don’t have a clue because it’s about nothing! It’s just something that happened 40 years — and that’s the truth of it. I don’t remember a thing about Rolling Thunder. It happened so long ago I wasn’t even born.
- 6/10/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Tony Sokol Apr 25, 2019
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese will hit select theaters and Netflix on June 12.
Martin Scorsese knows music. His movies have some of the best soundtracks in film, he pointed cameras at Elvis Presley, documented The Band's final concert with the film The Last Waltz, done documentaries on The Rolling Stones and even co-produced the short-lived HBO record industry series Vinyl. His new Netflix documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, will shed light on a legendary tour.
“Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year," Netflix said in a statement. "Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, Rolling Thunder is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese.”
Rolling Thunder Revue:...
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese will hit select theaters and Netflix on June 12.
Martin Scorsese knows music. His movies have some of the best soundtracks in film, he pointed cameras at Elvis Presley, documented The Band's final concert with the film The Last Waltz, done documentaries on The Rolling Stones and even co-produced the short-lived HBO record industry series Vinyl. His new Netflix documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, will shed light on a legendary tour.
“Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year," Netflix said in a statement. "Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, Rolling Thunder is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese.”
Rolling Thunder Revue:...
- 1/10/2019
- Den of Geek
The legendary Bob Dylan turned 70 years old on May 24th. This article takes a close look at his association with the movies…
Bob Dylan had his first acting gig aged 21 on British TV with a play called Madhouse on Castle Street. His eponymously-titled first album had been released but few people in Britain would have known him; this was a few months before Freewheelin’ hit the shelves and Dylan-fever (which is like Beatlemania, only less wild and more pretentious) swept the Western world. He was intended to play the lead but quickly proved that he wasn’t interested in learning lines and was perhaps more interested in his recent discovery of cannabis, so David Warner was hired as the lead and Dylan provided a Greek chorus to the action.
In its wisdom, the BBC has long since destroyed the footage so it’s not easy to gauge how people would...
Bob Dylan had his first acting gig aged 21 on British TV with a play called Madhouse on Castle Street. His eponymously-titled first album had been released but few people in Britain would have known him; this was a few months before Freewheelin’ hit the shelves and Dylan-fever (which is like Beatlemania, only less wild and more pretentious) swept the Western world. He was intended to play the lead but quickly proved that he wasn’t interested in learning lines and was perhaps more interested in his recent discovery of cannabis, so David Warner was hired as the lead and Dylan provided a Greek chorus to the action.
In its wisdom, the BBC has long since destroyed the footage so it’s not easy to gauge how people would...
- 6/1/2011
- by Adam Whyte
- Obsessed with Film
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