-to provide public opportunities for experiencing expressions and works of individual or group creativity as well as important works of the imagination.
-to communicate, widely, basic human values, feelings, and perspectives.
-to share the best that has been thought, imagined, and expressed in the history of civilization and the human spirit.
Scorcese has, amazingly, salvaged all the best of the original film.
Performances and songs are all strong, especially on “Hurricane” and “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” (latter with Byrds’ Roger McGuinn).
Many nice surprises: Dylan and Baez recalling their early relationship, and singing together.
The crack female fiddler Scarlet Rivera. Quite the revelation.
A very impressive, tight back-up band.
Added interviews with Dylan (looking much older) and others from the tour.
The disgruntled original filmmaker who couldn’t make a proper film of the tour, feeling used and exploited.
Ruben Carter “Hurricane” section.
The native section with Rolling Thunder who gave his name to the tour.
Dylan playing for older Jewish women in a home.
Joni Mitchell playing “Coyote” with McGuinn and Dylan, Lightfoot’s house.
Guest shot by Tanner (Michael McMurphy), the spoof politician from Altman’s films.
Dylan in kabuki face with many dramatic facial expressions exchanged with members of the band during performances.
Loser biz types backing the tour and at CBS.
No, it does not disappoint.
Based on commedia dell’arte. A continuous musical happening. An American Magical Mystery Tour a la The Beatles.
Lots o’ irony/ironies throughout a la Dylan.
He is in excellent/peak singing, playing, and conversing form.
Interesting extras not on Netflix version.
Highly engaging and recommended for all Dylan and Scorcese fans, in particular.
(in order I encountered/explored them, chronologically)
Orson Welles
Alfred Hitchcock
Woody Allen
Robert Altman
Ingmar Bergman
The guys with the widest, most diverse palettes.
Honorable mentions:
Francis Ford Coppola for the 1st two Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula
John Huston, another wide, diverse palette.
Twitter meme juxtaposing Bernie Sanders meme with Michelangelo:
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
–Aristotle
William Blake’s “Glad Day”
Courage – bravery.
Temperance – moderation.
Liberality – spending.
Magnificence – charisma, style.
Magnanimity – generosity.
Ambition – pride.
Patience – temper, calm.
Friendliness – social IQ.
especially on cold wintry Canadian days. If you’ve never tried it, try turning on the Golf channel on your tv cable system, especially Thursdays to Sundays when live tournaments are on. The beautiful, scenic courses from all over the world increase the visual/soul palette, reminding one of balmier, paradisiacal possibilities other than annual frozen North visitations. Love all that green and blue of sky, lake and ocean vistas, or desert and mountain scenes. An instantly mentally and spiritually uplifting tonic.
Yes, golfers have long understood the key allure of the sport–beautiful Nature mixed with human design/course planning. How being in Nature and one with Nature is well and truly its own reward and practical appreciation.
with good deeds; particularly my kind neighbors, on this cold Edmonton winter day. I poked my head out, after watching the rest of Bergman’s excellent Scenes from a Marriage 6 part-tv series (probably the ultimate artistic statement about marriage and male-female relationships), to see what was going on outside and my driveway had been magically shovelled!
No, nothing surprises me anymore. After reading Humankind last year, I find that the book’s thesis is quite true: people are better than we often think or predict. Too often we think or suspect the worst of one another, only to be surprised and proven wrong.
Nothing like sipping a cup of Empress Tea from Victoria’s Empress Hotel by a beautiful Christmas tree (still up into February) and listening to the first of 17 delightful CDs from a newly arrived boxset of Chopin’s complete works. I have long considered him my favorite piano composer since my acquiring 2 CDs of his Nocturnes by Daniel Barenboim back around 1990.
