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- 2019
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- 2019
- TV-MA
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Summary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year. Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, Rolling Thunder is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese.
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
- 2019
- TV-MA
- 2 h 22 m
- 2019
- TV-MA
- 2 h 22 m
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
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Summary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year. Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, Rolling Thunder is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese.
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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96% Positive
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4% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
86
96% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Dylan was interested in how movies stop time, but he also told Ginsberg that he wanted “to be entertained,” adding, “If I see a movie that really moves me around I’m totally astounded.” To watch Rolling Thunder Revue is to understand what he meant.
The Rolling Thunder Revue was Dylan’s personal magical mystery tour — and in Scorsese’s hands, there’s no shortage of magic or mystery.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 26 User Ratings
8.2
88% Positive
23 Ratings
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4% Mixed
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 26 User Ratings
8.2
88% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
4% Mixed
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8% Negative
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If you’re a fan of Bob, this one sits right up there alongside No Direction Home, I’m Not There, and Dont Look Back.$1 to buy a Netflix account, Google search: vtvshare
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If Scorsese’s 2005 Dylan documentary “No Direction Home” was the exhaustive origins portrait that reveals how a man and myth were launched, “Rolling Thunder Revue” is the home movie party that energizes and humanizes while still preserving a counterculture god’s mystique.
The entire production entertainingly coalesces into part concert doc, part cultural artifact, part “gotcha!” stunt, and part meditation on the fickle, fleeting nature of creativity.
Scorsese and his production team have created an incredible document of one of the 20th century’s most complicated personalities, and one that feels close to being a great film.
Scorsese is the Bob Dylan of cinema – poetic, truthful, idiosyncratic – and Rolling Thunder, despite some longueurs, is an important document of a major artist – by a major artist.
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story is one of the most frustrating Martin Scorsese films as well as one of the most out-of-character.
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.
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Not a big fan of Bob Dylan and is not one of Scorsese's best documentaries but I liked it. I mean it's music and it's Scorsese, so since the beginning I was going to be there no matter what and in all honesty it was a good informative ride
Netflix sometimes does things right.
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Production Company
Grey Water Park Productions,
Sikelia Productions
Release Date Jun 12, 2019
Duration 2 h 22 m
Rating TV-MA
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Awards
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 3 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 2 Nominations
