“Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Tale”
directed by Martin Scorsese
(Television-MA, 2 several hours 22 minutes)
Those who miss live concerts (thanks, pandemic) as nicely as a combustible era (1975) when men and women from diverse backgrounds and attitudes could disagree about all sorts of issues yet assemble to delight in great music — should be lining up to watch this multi-layered documentary, which is now remaining re-issued by the Criterion Selection.
Even if you are not a Bob Dylan fan, there is considerably to respect in Martin Scorsese’s next assessment of the singer/songwriter (the to start with is 2005’s “No Course Residence,” which fears Dylan’s early lifetime and vocation).
That film experienced a working time of of three and a fifty percent several hours this just one is a great deal much more workable at a minor about two hrs, and sparkles with restored efficiency footage that is vast-ranging plenty of to supply a thing to all types of viewers, no make any difference what their musical tastes.
It assists that Dylan’s stage is shared with the likes of Joni Mitchell, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Bob Neuwirth, Roberta Flack, Mick Ronson, Sharon Stone, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Patti Smith, Joan Baez, Sam Shepard, T Bone Burnett, Roger McGuinn and Allen Ginsberg.
You can find a large amount of storytelling — only some of it true — along with the new music that, alongside with backstage goofing around, provides to the entertainment worth. Not to be skipped is a sensational little bit of archival footage that includes Mitchell playing her new track “Coyote” — which McGuinn introduces as becoming published “about this tour and on this tour and for this tour,” however all people presumes she wrote it about Shepard — at at Gordon Lightfoot’s home, with Dylan and McGuinn signing up for in on guitar.
This version incorporates new interviews with Scorsese, editor David Tedeschi, and writer Larry “Ratso” Sloman restored footage of performances of “Tonight I will Be Being Listed here with You” and “Romance in Durango,” and of a in no way-right before-noticed reduce of “Tangled Up in Blue,” as nicely as an essay by novelist Dana Spiotta and items from Shepard, Ginsberg and poet Anne Waldman
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