In Scorsese’s ‘Rolling Thunder Revue,’ Bob Dylan Is More Myth Than Man
Why make a documentary that is nearly as much fiction as fantasy, and why deliberately attempt to blur the two?
Why make a documentary that is nearly as much fiction as fantasy, and why deliberately attempt to blur the two?
Louie Kemp, Bob Dylan’s lifelong friend and manager of Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder tour, tells about meeting Dylan at camp, their adventures over the years and Dylan’s relationship with Judaism.
From its origins with Jewish musicians in the 1970s to modern-day Jewish punk bands, the histories of Jewish culture and punk rock are deeply intertwined.
Director Luca Guadagnino announced that he is planning to adapt Bob Dylan’s 1975 album Blood on the Tracks for the screen.
Inspired by Jewish biblical texts and themes, the music also comments on a variety of modern American political issues, including environmentalism, women’s empowerment and LGBTQ rights.
Bibi was just trying to be cool. When congratulating Israeli contestant Netta Barzilai for her Eurovision song, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent her a tweet. It worked in Hebrew. “Netta, Kapara alayich” he wrote.
When Moshe Ha Elion sings, his clear, strong voice intones the rise and fall of a life lost too soon.
A definitive guide.
“I have these vocal cords. Two,” the singer Art Garfunkel writes near the start of his intriguing book of impressionistic musings about his life, “They have vibrated with the love of sound since I was five and began to sing with the sense of God’s gift running through me.”
It’s been 23 years since Adam Sandler first performed “The Chanukah Song” on Saturday Night Live in 1994.