Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Released Jun 12, 2019

2 hr. 22 min.

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Filmmaker Martin Scorsese chronicles the troubled spirit of America in 1975 along with the joyous music that Bob Dylan performed during the fall of that year.

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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese lives up to its unwieldy title with a delightfully unorthodox look at a pivotal period in its subject's career.

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JAMES

Very compelling and entertaining. Joan Baez was a jewel among many.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/12/19

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Jason R

All in all, a most peculiar film https://uberscaryblog.blogspot.com/2022/10/when-somebodys-wearing-mask-hes-gonna.html

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/23/23

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mike p

Whether you are a Bob Dylan fan or not, this is a fascinating look back at the 1970s in the USA.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Abdul R

Intresting if you're a fan of Bob Dylan. Brilliant music and fun storys. Much fun footage as well. Great documentary!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/22

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Audience Member

Its a very mediocre music documentary, maybe interesting for Dylan fans but there are really few things to make it remarkable. Seems like no one who was interview remembered the time very well and Scorsese had to use the footage to keep the boat afloat.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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susan j

Finally watched Rolling Thunder on Netflix last night - loved it! Favorite moment for me was a conversation just between Dylan and Joan Baez -- among myriad other wonderful moments.But this is a strange documentary....I'd like to read or hear what Scorsese says about it. I know nothing about how it came to be what it is. There isn't that much contemporary or retroactive analysis...and a goodly portion of what's there is a goof (which I hadn't read/heard about ahead of time, but caught on quickly, being knowledgeable about Dylan, and about some of the people featured in the film. The music and the footage from 1976 is well worth it tho. Especially if into Dylan. I tried to watch Renaldo and Clara twice in my lifetime and don't think ever got through it...it's really not watchable...but some of the footage from that is here. And handfuls of super cool footage--musical, audience, societal, interpersonal, and talking heads (like Sam Shepard, Allen Ginsberg).

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Ed Masley

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It wouldn't take much work to make a case for Dylan as a criminally underrated vocal stylist based on these performances alone, approaching each new song as one more masterpiece he can't stop painting over.

Dec 11, 2019

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Peter Aspden

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Martin Scorsese's masterful account of Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue contains predictable treasures, jolting surprises, and a mischievous sprinkle of untruths.

Dec 11, 2019

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Jordan Hoffman

TV Guide

It is a great marriage of artist(s) and repertoire, and might slip past some people as just another talking head music doc. It's actually far more sly than that.

Rated: 4.5/5

Dec 11, 2019

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Brian Susbielles

InSession Film

It isn’t a Martin Scorsese picture, as viewers would see on the credits, but a story being told by Dylan himself in his confusional state that meshes with the freewheeling form of the actual shows.

Mar 2, 2023

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

The music is one thing, the persona another. I’ve never had much patience with the narrative of Unknowable Trickster Dylan, the shape-shifting enigma that defined a generation while making himself tantalizingly unknowable...

Jan 3, 2023

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M.N. Miller

Ready Steady Cut

Scorsese’s new concert documentary film is sometimes moving, sometimes powerful musically, and almost always an entertaining piece of filmmaking, if not a head-scratching one.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 20, 2022

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese chronicles the troubled spirit of America in 1975 along with the joyous music that Bob Dylan performed during the fall of that year.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Executive Producer: David Tedeschi, Rick Yorn
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Grey Water Park Productions, Netflix, Sikelia Productions
Genre: Documentary, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 12, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 12, 2019

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