Rolling Thunder Revue
Original title: Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
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7.6/10
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In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy, Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for reinvention.In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy, Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for reinvention.In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy, Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for reinvention.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 11 nominations
Martin von Haselberg
- The Filmmaker
- (as Stefan van Dorp)
Rolling Thunder
- The Medicine Man
- (as Chief Rolling Thunder)
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia"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.
- GoofsIn 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.
- Quotes
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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Morning Joe: 05-24-2021 (2021)
- SoundtracksThe Stars and Stripes Forever
Written by John Philip Sousa
Featured review
A vast improvement on "Renaldo and Clara" .
Some people say that Dylan was at his very best when he did the RTR tour, and it's probably true; his four-hour movie ,"Renaldo and Clara" featured numerous live performances but there was too much in it that should have been edited : thus it was a flop at the box office and one dreamed of a compilation of the songs performed by Dylan and his first -class cast.Some sequences (Jack Kerouac's grave, the Indians ) were already included in Dylan-directed work,but Martin Scorcese made them aborbing and we are treated of the delight of incredible live performance (Dylan in close shot seems possessed ,almost frightening); "the lonesome death of Hattie Caroll ",notably ,is given hard-rocking treatment which makes the version on "the times they are a changin" look like a demo ;and to sing it along with "Hurricane" connects the links of the chain .There are interventions (Dylan ,Baez, Scarlet Rivera , david Mansfield) filmed some forty years after the event .Like in "Renaldo and Clara" , (remember the title and "the woman in white" ) ,all the artists have pseuds :for instance Joni Mitchell is "the musician" and they laude her courage to perform unreleased material -"coyote" is performed in a hotel room with support from Dylan and McGuinn.All the movie is absorbing and there's an interesting parallel with the political events of those years ;the only moments I could do without are Sharon Stone 's sequences which are a little off the subject ;on the other hand , all that concerns the boxer is proof positive that music can right a few wrongs.
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- Oct 16, 2020
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- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
- Filming locations
- Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA(At 36: 00 when discussing New England the view is traveling south on route 495 while crossing the Merrimac River)
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- Runtime2 hours 22 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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