January 11, 2019

Martin Scorsese to direct film about Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue..yippee

Years ago I bought a bootleg tape of this and it was just that...couldn't even tell who was on the screen...and it cost plenty...so this news has me very excited.....GUARDIAN article

Martin Scorsese to direct film about Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue

Netflix documentary will feature new interviews with the legendary songwriter about his celebrated mid-70s tour

Laura Snapes

Fri 11 Jan 2019 05.33 EST Last modified on Fri 11 Jan 2019 05.35 EST


Netflix has announced that Martin Scorsese will direct a documentary about Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story will feature new on-camera interviews with the legendary songwriter.

The streaming platform says the film “captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.” It is due later this year.

Variety reports that the film will be less straightforward than Scorsese’s 2005 Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, which focused on the songwriter’s rise to fame, his move to New York and temporary retirement following a motorcycle accident in July 1966. “Scorsese provides the master vision,” wrote critic Roger Ebert on that film’s release, “and his factual footage unfolds with the narrative power of fiction.”

The Rolling Thunder Revue was a freewheeling multi-artist caravan that began in October 1975 and concluded in May 1976. Artists including Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Mick Ronson, Bette Midler, Roger McGuinn, Emmylou Harris and Allen Ginsberg joined Dylan on the autumn leg of the tour, which is said to be the focus of Scorsese’s film. Dylan’s mother also appeared. Dylan frequently performed in white face paint.


Netflix has announced that Martin Scorsese will direct a documentary about Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story will feature new on-camera interviews with the legendary songwriter.

The streaming platform says the film “captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.” It is due later this year.

Variety reports that the film will be less straightforward than Scorsese’s 2005 Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, which focused on the songwriter’s rise to fame, his move to New York and temporary retirement following a motorcycle accident in July 1966. “Scorsese provides the master vision,” wrote critic Roger Ebert on that film’s release, “and his factual footage unfolds with the narrative power of fiction.”

The Rolling Thunder Revue was a freewheeling multi-artist caravan that began in October 1975 and concluded in May 1976. Artists including Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Mick Ronson, Bette Midler, Roger McGuinn, Emmylou Harris and Allen Ginsberg joined Dylan on the autumn leg of the tour, which is said to be the focus of Scorsese’s film. Dylan’s mother also appeared. Dylan frequently performed in white face paint.


It is one of the most noteworthy tours in rock history: “The Rolling Thunder Revue shows remain some of the finest music Dylan ever made with a live band,” wrote critic Clinton Heylin in his 1991 Dylan biography Behind the Shades. In 2002, an official recording of the tour was released in Dylan’s Bootleg Series.


Dylan engaged Sam Shepard as a screenwriter for a film about the tour, although the result was largely improvised. Released in 1978, Renaldo and Clara featured live footage, interviews and dramatised fictional portions about Dylan’s life. He was billed as Renaldo and his first wife, Sara Dylan, as Clara. It clocked in at almost four hours and was panned by critics.

Scorsese’s film is not the only Dylan feature in the works. Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino has said he is directing a film based on Dylan’s 1975 album Blood on the Tracks, to be written by The Fisher King and The Bridges of Madison County screenwriter Richard LaGravenese.

Dylan will perform a rare UK concert this summer, sharing the bill with Neil Young at London’s Hyde Park on 12 July. Scorsese’s next slated feature film is another Netflix production, The Irishman, about the mafia-union wars of the 70s.

January 10, 2019

'Cohen has tapes': John Dean explains Trump won't be able to dodge revelations from fixer's testimon

‘Cohen has tapes’: John Dean explains why Trump won’t be able to dodge revelations from fixer’s upcoming testimony

Noor Al-Sibai RAW STORY(entire article)
10 Jan 2019 at 16:32 ET

President Nixon’s former White House counsel explained to CNN Thursday why Donald Trump may be worried about his former “fixer” Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress next month.

“Michael Cohen has deep knowledge and wide knowledge of President Trump and what happened during the campaign and so we’re finally putting a face on somebody who can talk with authority about these events,” John Dean said after news broke about the attorney’s February Congressional testimony.


Host Brianna Keilar noted that when Dean testified before Congress about Nixon, some dismissed what he had to say as “outrageous” — and the former White House counsel agreed.

“I was attacked not only by Nixon’s supporters and surrogates, I was attacked by Nixon in a number of his national addresses,” Dean said. “The tapes certainly resolved who was telling the truth and I’m not quite sure how it all would have turned out had there not been tapes.”

He then added: “I understand Michael Cohen has tapes as well.”

“I’m sure Trump doesn’t know which ones he does or does not have since it was Cohen doing the taping,” Dean said, adding, “I don’t know how many tapes there are, but certainly there’s no motive for Cohen to lie at this time about his work with Trump.”

January 10, 2019

Stormy book..this passage kind of startled me..had not heard this before..

I got Stormy book late as I ordered it from London. Page 144:

So, I was sitting in this beautiful bungalow and I was watching this crazy documentary filmed with real sharks tearing at bodies. And to say the guy was riveted is an understatement. Then, to make it crazier, Hillary Clinton called. I could hear her voice through the receiver, and that accent saying "Donald".

"Hello Hillary" he said, briefly distracted from the sharks. He kept the movie going but started pacing around the room. She was up against Barack Obama seeking the Dem nomination and he had a whole conversation about the race, repeatedly mentioning "our plan". They also discussed a family trip they wanted to take together, something involving a ski area. Who knows if Hillary was just humoring him.

When he hung up, he was effusive about Hillary. "I love her", he said. "She is so smart." This would be the 4th time he had donated money to her political career.

THIS KIND OF STARTLED ME...

January 10, 2019

As it says in the bible, "Spare the Rod Rosenstein, spoil the child"

@lizzwinstead


As it says in the bible, "Spare the Rod Rosenstein, spoil the child"

January 10, 2019

Donald Trump Jr is tied to El Chapo's Mexican drug cartel...this shit never ends...

Scott Dworkin

BOMBSHELL: Donald Trump Jr is tied to El Chapo's Mexican drug cartel. These photos I found prove it. The same Latvian banker Don Jr is in photos with also was behind a massive Russian money laundering scheme as well. Because, of course he was. Please share https://thesternfacts.com/trump-jr-now-tied-to-mexican-drug-cartels-money-laundering-scheme-5906b8d4ce5d …

Krooked muhfucka

January 9, 2019

Rob Reiner: An illegitimate POTUS pushes an illegitimate crisis.

Rob Reiner
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The conspiracy heats up. Just when the desperate liar tries to bullshit US with his non existent border crisis, we learn that his campaign chairman was sharing valuable polling data with Russian intelligence. An illegitimate POTUS pushes an illegitimate crisis. #TrumpResign

January 9, 2019

Tlaib comment: the MEDIA is making it a distraction. And cannot let it go...

Joe and Mika discussing Tlaib comment "It is a distraction"....NO, it was the truth, it is why she ran and won...the MEDIA is making it a distraction. And cannot let it go...and to some extent DU is doing it, too...

January 9, 2019

"And there are 75 languages spoken in the schools here!" R congressman in CA....

just flipped to Fox and Friends and Mike Slater R congressman CA..is on.. all hopped up about new Progressive Gov Newsom and Progressive state and Progressive policies...he just said "And there are 75 languages spoken in the schools here!"....like it is a BAD BAD thing....great to see these dickhead Rs squashed in CA....

January 8, 2019

We got our bombshell !!

turn on Ari....

January 8, 2019

Sarah will follow him with a shovel and a bucket like the good little circus clean-up clown she is..

@lizzwinstead

Trump will take center stage and unload a big steaming speech that all 4 networks will broadcast as Sarah Sanders follows him with a shovel and a bucket like the good little circus clean-up clown she is.