Rolling Thunder Revue: Martin Scorsese Racconta Bob Dylan
In un mix alchemico di realtà e fantasia, Martin Scorsese ricorda il tour di Bob Dylan del 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue e una nazione che ha bisogno di reinventarsi.In un mix alchemico di realtà e fantasia, Martin Scorsese ricorda il tour di Bob Dylan del 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue e una nazione che ha bisogno di reinventarsi.In un mix alchemico di realtà e fantasia, Martin Scorsese ricorda il tour di Bob Dylan del 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue e una nazione che ha bisogno di reinventarsi.
- Premi
- 3 vittorie e 11 candidature totali
- The Filmmaker
- (as Stefan van Dorp)
- The Medicine Man
- (as Chief Rolling Thunder)
Recensioni in evidenza
**two months pass**
When I sat down to write this short, relatively negative review in advance of recording a podcast about how this should have just been released as a concert movie, and the documentary aspects didn't work at all, I stumbled upon the information that nearly all the documentary elements were fiction. The director who shot the original footage? Just an actor playing a character named Stefan Van Dorp, a European filmmaker who claims to have directed the original footage (in reality, Dylan and a crew shot the footage for Dylan's own project, the 1978 feature 'Renaldo and Clara'). Sharon Stone? Digitally inserted into photos; never met Dylan on tour as a 17 or 19 year old or however old she was supposed to be in a past that never happened. There's no word on whether Dylan being inspired by the band KISS to paint his face white is a real factoid or not, and what does it matter? An entire fiction concocted by two elderly men that couldn't even be a fraction as interesting as what actually transpired in reality... now that is truly an artistic statement! +1 for effort, and by effort I mean: genuinely fooling me. Now and then, there's a fool such as I, bored and ready, willing and able to click the next thing I see featured on Netlifx that even remotely intrigues me at all.
The music and footage is great and could stand on its own. The rest as many have mentioned is pretentious drivel.
I am pretty close to contemporary of the musicians profiled here, I am just 4 years younger than Dylan. I of course remember him well but I never really cared for his music. I was not, and am not, a fan.
Still, I really enjoyed this documentary. In 1975 Bob Dylan, his musicians, and some of his friends embarked on what they named the 'Rolling Thunder Review.' Why that name? Someone had described a series of thunder sounds during a storm as rolling thunder and Dylan just liked that name, nothing more significant than that, they explain.
The participants, in the end, thought the tour was very successful, it was fun and it allowed them to share their poetry and music with many. But financially, it was not. They played in mostly smaller venues and often receipts were not sufficient to cover the expenses.
Bob Dylan always drove the bus from site to site, at least that is what is depicted. He and Joan Baez were in their mid-30s and had a very close relationship, and loved to harmonize in song.
My favorite was Scarlet Rivera who, on the tour, was called The Queen of Swords. She was a marvelous violinist and was part of the band, often standing adjacent to Dylan as she played her accompaniment.
There are several fictional stories included, the most interesting involves Sharon Stone meeting Dylan when she was still a teenager, and joined the tour. Not as a musician but she just did odd jobs, all this before she started her acting career. And we find out, it was all fiction. Dylan and Stone never met back then.
I admit, I used the fast-forward through most of the Dylan performances, his singing just grates on my nerves. But that didn't take away from the overall impact of the film, really enjoyable to "peek behind the curtain" during those years that I was starting my own career and my children were being born in 1969 through 1976.
Lo sapevi?
- Quiz"Stefan van Dorp" does not exist in real life and was created for this movie. He is played by Bette Midler's husband, Martin von Haselberg.
- BlooperIn the closing credits where Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour scheduled is listed, on the 2018 slide, August 24 is incorrectly listed as Brisbane, New Zealand. When in fact it should be listed as Brisbane, Australia.
- Citazioni
Interviewer: What were the audiences like that you played to?
The Balladeer: Well, they would all be hysterically happy. So, I mean, you can't really judge much from saying "What would the audiences be like?" They would all be people who would've slit each other's throats to get there.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Morning Joe: 05-24-2021 (2021)
- Colonne sonoreThe Stars and Stripes Forever
Written by John Philip Sousa
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- Luoghi delle riprese
- Lawrence, Massachusetts, Stati Uniti(At 36: 00 when discussing New England the view is traveling south on route 495 while crossing the Merrimac River)
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- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 22 minuti
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- 1.85 : 1