Michael Glover Smith
@whitecitycinema
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Filmmaker (RELATIVE, RENDEZVOUS IN CHICAGO, MERCURY IN RETROGRADE), Author (FLICKERING EMPIRE: ), Teacher
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My latest feature film, RELATIVE, is now available for rental and purchase on digital via
@musicboxfilms
. Stream it on Amazon, Apple +, Vudu, Google Play & YouTube TODAY: )
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With Ron Howard back in the news, now might be a good time to revisit that moment where he won the Best Director Oscar over Robert Altman and David Lynch. Altman told Lynch “It’s better this way.”
David Lynch consoling Robert Altman after they lose to Ron Howard in the Best Director category at the 2002 Academy Awards.
#DavidLynch
#Oscars
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The most amazing photo of Bob Dylan that I have ever seen. Where the hell is he? In a sorority house?
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A new painting by Bob Dylan titled “Emmett Street,” currently on display at the Frost Museum in Miami, is based on an image from Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece NEWS FROM HOME. How cool is this?
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This is WILD. At Bob Dylan's concert in Ft Lauderdale on Friday, a woman yells "Play something we know!" Dylan then launches into a new arrangement of When I Paint My Masterpiece where he sings the lyrics to the tune of Irving Berlin's Puttin' on the Ritz!
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That "Holy shit, there he is" moment when Bob Dylan first takes the stage. There's no feeling like it. No octogenarian has ever had this much swagger.
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Bob Dylan has painted the iconic
@ChicagoTheatre
marquee in his new “Route 66” series of paintings.
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Gotta love how journalists refer to LICORICE PIZZA, a film with a 40-million-dollar budget that was produced by MGM, as an "indie." I guess that word has now come to encompass all of the Hollywood movies that don't suck?
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To see Bob Dylan in Milwaukee tonight was to be struck repeatedly by lightning bolts of ecstasy. I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You, in particular, was an insanely great vocal performance. An overwhelming show.
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Bob Dylan in Rome last night. Is this the best photo of the Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour so far?
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Positively levitating after tonight’s Bob Dylan concert at the Cadillac Palace Theater. He opened with a cover of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band’s Born in Chicago and closed with Muddy Waters’ 40 Days and 40 Nights. The man knows his audience!
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This photo of a Traveling Wilburys tribute band is giving my life:
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Tony Garnier playing upright bass in the corner of an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn this afternoon. This man just lives to play his instrument:
WTF Tony Garnier (Lounge Lizards, Bob Dylan) is playing at my restaurant rn 🤯🤯🤯
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Bob Dylan on William Blake in the new Vanity Fair:
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Bob Dylan in Orlando tonight: Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!!!!!! I don’t know if it was the best of the 86 shows I’ve seen but it felt like the most perfect? Everything was a highlight. I’m having a hard time processing it.
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Just discovered that Roberto Bolano was a Bob Dylan fan (because of course he was). Here’s a great story about him listening to “Love and Theft” from BOLANO: A BIOGRAPHY IN CONVERSATIONS:
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Bob Dylan posted this photo as an Instagram story a few minutes ago. The guy in the pic is legendary session drummer Hal Blaine.
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Bob Dylan is 82 years old today. Listen to this magnificent version of "Forever Young," from his forthcoming album Shadow Kingdom, in his honor:
It’s looking increasingly unlikely, but I’d sell a kidney to hear Forever Young during this current tour in the Shadow Kingdom style. It really is one of the most beautiful renditions of one of his songs. It should go down in the history books as a legendary performance.
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Just got the Bob Dylan/Jack White 7” inch single of “Ball and Biscuit” recorded live in Detroit in 2004 as part of the new Third Man Records vault package. Incredible artwork and a new multitrack mix of the performance that sounds VERY different than the audience tape:
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One of the many revelations in MIXING UP THE MEDICINE: the photo used for the cover of Bob Dylan’s “Love and Theft” was originally a full-body shot.
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In honor of Bob Dylan resuming his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour in Kansas City, MO tonight, here is my latest stab at ranking all 40 of his studio albums:
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Top 10 Bob Dylan songs is a thing so I'll weigh in:
10. Born in Time ('90)
9. Senor ('78)
8. Ain't Talkin' ('06)
7. Series of Dreams ('91)
6. Lay Down Your Weary Tune ('63)
5. Tempest ('12)
4. Idiot Wind ('75)
3. Key West ('20)
2. Every Grain of Sand ('81)
1. Mississippi ('01)
Top 10 Bob Dylan songs probably
One Too Many Mornings (Royal Albert Hall)
Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right
Stuck Inside a Mobile…
Like A Rolling Stone
Positively 4th Street
One of Us Must Know
Visions of Johanna
Queen Jane Approximately
Most of the Time
Sweetheart Like You
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I believe this take is the correct one. And I'll go further and say that ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS is the most significant work of art in any medium released in the 2020s. It's been my most listened to album every year for four consecutive years.
the music opinion I have that people would hate me for is that I truly think Bob Dylan is underrated, like severely underrated. and that he’s maybe the single most interesting person alive on earth right now. and that no other living artist even comes close to his significance.
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Bob Dylan absolutely killed it in Indianapolis tonight. He sang a John Mellencamp song for the first time - the deep cut “Longest Day” - and it was one of the most beautiful tithings I’ve ever heard.
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I made a list of my 80 favorite Bob Dylan songs in honor of his 80th birthday and wrote a thumbnail review of each. I’ve been working on this for a full year so please take a gander at my blog:
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Bob Dylan issues an explanation and an apology for the auto-pen controversy on Facebook:
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RIP Linda Manz. Unforgettable in DAYS OF HEAVEN and OUT OF THE BLUE.
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Just discovered the sources of two more paintings in Dylan’s “Deep Focus” series: HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong) and ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Fassbinder).
@scottwarmuth1
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Timothee Chalamet and Elle Fanning were in Row D at the Brooklyn show tonight. I called it:
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One of the best albums of the 21st century came out 20 years ago today. I listened to it obsessively in the months following its release, finding that it brought great comfort in a dark and uncertain time. Thank you,
@bobdylan
and band, for “Love and Theft.”
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Timothee Chalamet's thoughts on seeing Bob Dylan play live in Brooklyn on November 14:
"It was absolutely brilliant. I don't know how to describe it. It was magical. They bag your phone at the front. It obliges you to be present. It was spectacular."
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The Complete Budokan is phenomenal, shining a new light on some of Dylan’s most adventurous musical arrangements ever. “One of Us Most Know” has an actual disco beat and is probably the single most dance-able track in his entire discography. Just sublime stuff.
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Looking for recommendations to help flesh out my new Summer Playlist. The theme is: great songs by singer/songwriters from the ‘60s that are buried under cheesy ‘80s production techniques:
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THE BEAST is a total fucking jaw-dropper that gave me flashbacks to what it was like seeing MULHOLLAND DR back in 2001. Bonello’s most ambitious and best film. Best performance yet by Seydoux who is well on her way to having a Binoche/Huppert-like career. Can’t wait to revisit.
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One last thing about Jim: he was a truly excellent film critic. Just look at this generous, incisive review of SIGN O’ THE TIMES that he wrote for
@cinefile
. He mentions that there will be no more displays of Prince’s “giant heart.” The same can be said about Jim.
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Tears are gonna flow in Milwaukee tonight, folks.
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The first review of Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song dropped today. Jeff Simon of the Buffalo News, who was previously a Dylan skeptic, calls it “not only one of the great books of the year, but of the past decade.”
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Stay home tonight so that next New Year’s Eve can look like this:
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Just discovered that Tracy Phillips, the actress who plays the femme fatale in Bob Dylan’s The Night We Called It a Day video, also plays the radio station receptionist in TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Part 8 (AKA the greatest TV episode ever). She looks good in black-and-white:
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Is Robert Pattinson the best actor under age 35 currently working in English-language films? Don't reply if you haven't seen GOOD TIME.
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The "Bob Dylan should play songs from Street-Legal in concert" discourse has hit the British tabloids, hell yes:
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An oldie but a goodie for the birthday of the great Isabelle Huppert:
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Here it is: Bob Dylan playing “Across the Borderline” last night for the first time since 1998. Arguably the finest performance of the entire Rough and Rowdy Ways tour. He seems to determined to end this tour on a sublime high:
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I saw Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell at the United Center in Chicago on this day in 1998. We are so lucky that they’re both still alive and making music 25 years later.
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No surprises in the set list for the last show of year 3 of the Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour but an A+ performance from Bob Dylan and His Band. Bob was totally dialed in yet adventurous and playful. Great conclusion to a great tour leg. Can’t wait to see what 2024 brings.
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Another killer Dylan show in Chicago. Covered the Dead’s Truckin’ and Howling Wolf’s Killing Floor. One more to go!
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Okay, here’s the list I submitted to They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? of my top 100 films that didn’t receive a single vote in the 2022 S&S poll. Hope someone finds this useful lol.
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It has been seriously underreported that TRAILER OF A FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: PHONY WARS, the final film that Jean-Luc Godard completed in his lifetime, will be released on Blu-ray in 6 days:
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Bob Dylan’s definitive version of Forever Young, from Alma Har’el’s magnificent SHADOW KINGDOM, sounds especially poignant on New Year’s Eve when everyone is making resolutions and hoping for better days ahead. It sounds like a prayer for the whole world:
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I am at the nondescript Muscle Shoals Studios where Bob Dylan recorded Slow Train Coming and Saved:
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Fantastic Dylan show! Met
@nologos_
beforehand who told me she heard that Terrence Malick (arguably America’s greatest living artist behind Dylan) was in the house. I looked up and, sure enough, he was sitting four seats in front of me (in the front row):
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I decided, for my own edification, to look at the set lists of all 77 Bob Dylan concerts I’ve attended since 1989 and count the total number of unique songs I’ve seen him perform. I’m amazed to realize that number is 190! The sheer variety of songs on this list is mind-boggling:
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Someone at the EDLIS Cafe group on Facebook has identified this recent Bob Dylan painting, from his “Deep Focus” series, as being based on a shot in Clint Eastwood’s HONKYTONK MAN.
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Tim Heidecker on Bob Dylan at the Pantages last night is very good:
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Since my Chuck D/Bob Dylan tweet blew up, I’d like to direct your attention to this splendid rant that Dylan delivered in 2007 about why Run-DMC should not be considered an “oldies” act. His introduction to “My Adidas” on his radio show:
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Listening to Bob Dylan do this kickass cover of Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven” for the first time ever last night made me realize that he’s probably the only person alive who can reinfuse this genre of music with the sense of danger it had in 1956:
And now here’s Bob covering “Roll Over Beethoven” for the first time ever last night. His third Chuck Berry cover of the last year (w/ Nadine, Johnny B Goode)
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34 minutes ‘til Dylan takes the stage in Austin. Just had a nice conversation with Harvard prof Richard F. Thomas (whose book WHY BOB DYLAN MATTERS is one of my favorites) after running into him by chance in the lobby.
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Bob Dylan giving a shout out to Mister Rogers in Moon Township, Pennsylvania tonight:
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My brother, who was there up close, said Dylan clearly heard the woman, looked right at her and looked like he was about to say something before he began the song. It's an absolutely incredible version!
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Bob Dylan gave shout outs to J. Edgar Hoover and Country Joe McDonald in Washington D.C. tonight lmao. Amazing final show of 2021!
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I'm writing an appreciation of Kristen Stewart for
@TimeOutChicago
. And I'm having a lot of fun doing it.
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Bob Dylan’s surprise set at Farm Aid kicked so much ass. It was like the electric SHADOW KINGDOM lol.
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Nina Simone admitting to the attempted murder of a record company executive is one of the best things I've ever seen
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Martin Scorsese’s ROLLING THUNDER REVUE premiered 5 years ago today. Who else saw it on the big screen and cried at the end when all of Bob Dylan’s tour dates from 1975 to 2018 (w/ one title card per year!) flashed onscreen as he and Joan sang The Water is Wide on the soundtrack?
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As someone old enough to have seen WILD AT HEART, FIRE WALK WITH ME and LOST HIGHWAY in theaters upon their initial theatrical release, I can remember when it was actually uncool to like David Lynch. Which is part of the reason I don't mind his status of cuddly sainthood today.
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I created a Wikipedia entry for Bob Dylan’s 1989 song “Most of the Time” and it has been granted “Good Article” status. I have achieved immortality:
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Clinton Heylin is finally good for something!
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I reviewed Bob Dylan's new book The Philosophy of Modern Song for
@Newcity
magazine. Anyone who cares about the history of popular music should read this substantial and wildly entertaining collection of essays:
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There is something to laugh at on every page of Bob Dylan’s Chronicles: Volume One but the single most hilarious passage to me is the one where he claims to have “a trusty aide and mechanic” who calls him “gov” (the guy’s British?) and gives him business advice:
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Director James Mangold says he spent “several wonderfully charming days” talking to Bob Dylan “one on one” while prepping A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, and that Dylan loves his 1997 Sylvester Stallone-starring film COP LAND. Dylan content begins at 24:00:
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I'm not implying that Dylan came up with that arrangement on the spot. He and the band had clearly worked it out in advance. But it does feel as if he's playing it directly in response to what she said. It's the ultimate rebuttal.
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Audience-shot video of Bob Dylan playing "Crossing the Rubicon" in Madrid, Spain last night. A minimalist, piano-driven version with beautiful vocals and a wild instrumental break. This kind of thing is very rare in these days of Yondr pouches. Enjoy:
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Adam Selzer and I, who’ve been seeing Bob Dylan concerts together since 2004, just got tix for the final show of the Fall tour — at the Anthem in D.C. on December 2. We HAD to do it!
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I love that Timothee Chalamet only appears in public these days cosplaying Bob Dylan. Here he is in a new interview wearing Dylan’s Newport ‘65 jacket.
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Louis Feuillade’s 7-hour mystery serial TIH-MINH, one of the greatest and most entertaining movies ever made, will be released on Blu-ray (with English subtitles) via Gaumont next month. It’s the first decent home-video release it’s ever had:
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I’m trying to imagine what it must be like to listen to this exuberantly performed set of songs and write some bullshit about Dylan and the band “dutifully hitting their marks.” Time for this garbage website to close up shop for good.
Bob Dylan's The Complete Budokan 1978 isn’t just a drag, it’s often dorky, too
Our review ↓
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So you wanna quote the most famous lyric from Leonard Cohen’s “Anthem” in your own song in the year 2023? Here’s how you do it in a meaningful and substantial way:
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All recorded and released within a span of less than 3 years. It boggles the mind!
#NationalAlbumDay
...is there a greater run of albums by an artist in popular music history?* 😎
@bobdylan
#BobDylan
*the answer is no!
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This
@NewYorker
profile of Leonard Cohen (featuring extensive new comments from Bob Dylan) is incredible:
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All of the songs in Bob Dylan’s forthcoming book of essays THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG as a 66-song playlist:
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What is your favourite 3 album run by your favourite band?
Here's mine.
Your turn 👊🏻
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I’ve accepted an offer to teach a Film Directing course at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee this fall. Although I’ve taught film history classes at the college level for 14 years, this is my first time teaching a production course and I’m excited for the challenge.
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Tonight’s viewing: New “50th Anniversary Release” of Sam Peckinpah’s supreme masterpiece. I plan on watching this 4 times between now and the 4th.
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As someone who saw the then-savaged MASKED AND ANONYMOUS five times in the theater upon its initial release, it is very gratifying to see it undergoing a serious critical re-evaluation 20 years later.
@bertww65
’s new essay is superb:
‘Masked and Anonymous’ (2003) remains a darkly prophetic and unjustly overlooked milestone for Bob Dylan. Read our appreciation of the film here:
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Pleased to announce I’ll be teaching Directing I at DePaul University in the spring. When I first arrived in Chicago 30 years ago(!), it was to attend DePaul’s Theatre School (long before they had a film school). I wonder if my old student ID is still valid?
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@Matt_Stike
@bobdylan
Someone tweeted this pic from tonight’s show and I think it’s fantastic:
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Whenever I’m sad, I read the story about the overcoat Mel Brooks bought for David Lynch and the sun shines once more.
A story from Mel Brooks on making THE ELEPHANT MAN with David Lynch, and a special jacket.
THE ELEPHANT MAN plays Today at 11:30am, presented on 35MM
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Bob Dylan’s Shadow Kingdom will receive an official album release in June. No word yet on whether the film will be included. Oh yeah!
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I’m glad Tom Waits is reissuing his greatest albums on vinyl but what I really want is for him to have an unscrupulous manager who swindles him out of his savings and thus forces him to be productive in his old age (a la Leonard Cohen).
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After two truly excellent Bob Dylan shows in Chicago on Friday and Saturday, tonight’s show was just okay. It was loose and weird - as if he was searching for something that he sometimes found but just as often didn’t. That’s just the way it goes.
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In order to maintain the attractive “ascending staircase” shape of my
@letterboxd
ratings graph, I need to rate a movie 4-and-a-half stars. Quick, someone recommend a movie that I will think is _almost_ perfect.
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Let’s be clear about what that was. It wasn’t a concert. It’s a movie. And it’s the best movie of the year. Everyone bow down to Alma Har’el:
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Bob Dylan playing Hank Williams’ “On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain” last night. So beautiful. Donnie Herron on fiddle, Tony Garnier on upright bass with a bow, Dylan on piano. The New Orleans audience fully understands how special this is:
Bob Dylan — Debut performance of Hank Williams' “On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain”. New Orleans. 1st April, 2024. Stereo recording.
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