Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
- Directed by
- Martin Scorsese
- Genre
- documentary film, concert film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 148 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
Martin Scorsese's documentary covers Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour. It mixes real footage and interviews with fictional elements, showing the tour's chaotic energy and the performers involved.
energeticnostalgicplayfulintimatefreewheelingfreneticreverent
What happens
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (or Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Re-vue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, according to the main title graphic) is a 2019 American documentary film, composed of both fictional and non-fictional material, covering Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour. It is Martin Scorsese's second film on Dylan, following No Direction Home (2005). The bulk of Rolling Thunder Revue is compiled of outtakes from Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara (1978), which was filmed in conjunction with the tour. The film features contemporary interviews with prominent figures of the tour such as Dylan, Joan Baez, Sam Shepard, Ronee Blakley, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Roger McGuinn, Ronnie Hawkins, Larry Sloman, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, as well as archival interviews with Scarlet Rivera and Allen Ginsberg. It also features fictional interviews of actors portraying characters who were not actually involved in the tour, including Martin Von Haselberg portraying the fictional filmmaker Stefan Van Dorp, Sharon Stone playing a fictionalized version of herself, and Michael Murphy reprising his role as the U.S. congressman and dark horse Democratic presidential candidate Jack Tanner from Robert Altman's mockumentary miniseries Tanner '88 (1988) and its sequel, Tanner on Tanner (2004). Rolling Thunder Revue does not differentiate between the fictional and factual accounts, and even Dylan himself refers to the fictional characters in his interviews, leaving the audience to guess which parts of the film are authentic and which are fabricated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Renaldo and Clara (1978)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.