For Bruce Springsteen, it was the starting snare shot of “Like a Rolling Stone” that kicked open the door to his mind. He’s not wrong. And he’s not alone. That iconic Bob Dylan song has and will stand the test … Continue reading A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about a new documentary streaming on Max, Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play., and documentaries that have fun with the fluidity of the form: Orson Welles’ F for Fake, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s A Moment of Innocence, Martin Scorsese’s The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, even Abbas Kiarostami’s fiction/nonfiction hybrid: And Life Goes On… Continue reading
If you love folk music, you know Joan Baez. If you don’t love folk music, then you might know a couple of Baez songs, that she spent some crucial years around Bob Dylan, marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, … Continue reading JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE
In 1975, the U.S. was at a crossroads. The Vietnam War was over, and Americans were more disillusioned than ever. Big cities out east, like New York and Washington D.C., prepped for the Bicentennial, but Small Town, U.S.A., seemed not … Continue reading ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A BOB DYLAN STORY
Who is Frank talking to? That was the question posed as a group of us exited The Irishman. One was a film programmer, the other four: film professors—the fixating kind. But the question was valid. Who is Frank Sheeran (Robert De … Continue reading THE IRISHMAN
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. —Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue is Scorsese’s second documentary about the singer/songwriter from Duluth, Minnesota. His first, No Direction Home from 2005, covered Dylan’s early years up to his motorcycle … Continue reading ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A BOB DYLAN STORY BY MARTIN SCORSESE
Michael J. Cinema 