Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Released Jun 12, 2019

2h 22m

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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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Ed Masley

Arizona Republic

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

Financial Times

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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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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stephen b

As a documentary it's a little faulty. One director's footage being represented by a second director comes out a bit muddled. But the live music from this tour is so great it makes it still worth a watch. A full on concert movie would have been so much better.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/02/25

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AO S

You have to do ALOT of drugs to like this movie and the music. This Dylan guy comes across like a serious jerk and narcissist. Why is everyone kissing his ass? I know he was a great songwriter in the 60's but this is a bad hippy trip and a mess of a documentary.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

12/22/24

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Sams K

A must see, whether you are Bob Dylan fans or not, this is an amazing portrait of America during the 70s. Brilliant.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/30/24

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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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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
Producer: Margaret Bodde, Jeff Rosen
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Sikelia Productions, Netflix, Grey Water Park Productions
Genre: Documentary, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 12, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 12, 2019
Runtime: 2h 22m

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