The 78-year-old Bob, who isn’t interviewed on camera so often these days, just cracked me up consistently. What’s striking about this movie, beyond anything else, is just how hilarious Dylan is, especially in the contemporary talking head interviews. In a year of very good music documentaries – Homecoming: A Film By Beyonce, All I Can Say, Mystify: Michael Hutchence, Echo in the Canyon – this is probably the best one yet. There’s plenty of Allen Ginsberg, who was along on the tour, as well as the likes of Joan Baez, Patti Smith, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Ronnie Hawkins. Rolling Thunder Revue is Scorsese’s second doc about Dylan, following 2005’s No Direction Home, and there are all sorts of elements that make it a must for anyone who’s an obsessive fan of Dylan, of the counterculture, or of mid-’70s culture in general. Rolling Thunder Revue is Scorsese’s second doc about Dylan, following 2005’s No Direction Home, and there are all sorts of elements that make it a must… Also, somewhat controversially, there’s quite a bit of stuff in the material that’s not quite true, including various fictional characters, including director “ Stefan Van Dorp.” Sharon Stone also shows up to tell some dubious-sounding stories about her adventures on Dylan’s tour as a teenager. The film assembles archival footage that was shot during the tour with contemporary talking head interviews with Dylan and others. It’s a concert documentary, released on Netflix this week after a brief theatrical bow, that looks at the titular tour which Dylan embarked on along with an eclectic cast of musicians, poets, and others back in 1975. The cultural iconography of Bob Dylan just got longer by two hours and 20 minutes with the release of Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese.
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