Review of Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) by Trailesque — 17 Apr 2020
This is a brilliant look at one of rock music's legendary tours. In 1975 Bob Dylan, who was then making some of the best music in his career, led a rollicking troupe of performers on a tour of mostly smaller venues in the northeast US and into Canada.
The group included Joni Mitchell (then at her beautiful best), Allen Ginsberg, Scarlet Rivera, Roger McGuinn, and others. Somebody shot some footage of this and Martin Scorsese made a movie out of it 45 years later.
It is not a straight documentary tho; there is a bogus German filmmaker who was supposedly leading the filming (you even hear his voice at times in the scenes), and actor Michael Murphy appears as a fictional congressman.
The music is awesome even if the camera work is not. But what I really want to know is why did Dylan and Rivera go their separate ways? They were a brilliant team, and after her departure Dylan hardly ever worked with a violinist again.
This review of Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) was written by Trailesque on 17 Apr 2020.
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