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Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese is taking another swing at a documentary about The Band, this time with the spotlight trained on Bob Dylan.
In the early days of his career – a whopping 40 years ago – Scorsese directed The Last Waltz. Within that film, however, there was a conspicuous absence. Bob Dylan, despite having agreed to perform in the concert that The Last Waltz was about, refused to make a appearance. He believed that it might compromise a film he intended to make in the near future, Renaldo and Clara, and thus The Last Waltz was respectful of his wishes.
Renaldo and Clara has been released for a very long time. There’s nothing stopping him now.
On the 3rd of June, Netflix released the trailer on Youtube to a buzz of excitement. Having racked up nearly 500k views and rave comments, it’s obvious that the Internet is exhilarated at the chance to see another of Scorsese’s masterpieces.
The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story will explore Bob Dylan’s personal life in close detail. The film will include never before seen interviews with Dylan, including his first on-camera interview in over a decade, along with a peek into the murky atmosphere that characterised America in the 1975s.
What inspired him?
While welcomed, it’s clear that the film is touching on a subject very few younger people will appreciate. Scorsese is well aware of this – and in fact, it might very well be because of the old subject matter is old that he found inspiration in it.
In an interview released by Netflix on the 12th of June, Scorsese pensively states this about the Rolling Thunder Revue:
“To have something that touching, that moves you so much – that was real at the time. It’s nothing to ignore. That if something can move us and make us think, make us feel before you think, even. That’s something that has to be preserved and has to be captured and be reminded. Audiences today – they have to be reminded of what’s possible.”
Want to know what else Scorsese has had his fingers in? Writing a serial killer television series! Those never go out of style.
