In the autumn of 1975, Martin Scorsese was finishing
Taxi Driver, Bob Dylan began his Rolling Thunder Revue tour, and Orson Welles’
F for Fake premiered in New York.
In the autumn of 1975, Martin Scorsese was finishing
Taxi Driver, Bob Dylan began his Rolling Thunder Revue tour, and Orson Welles’
F for Fake premiered in New York. Welles’ manipulation of found documentary footage of art forger Elmyr de Hory into a viewer-hoodwinking shaggy dog story has far more to do with Scorsese’s film of Dylan’s tour than, say,
The Last Waltz.
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story is a film of crude forgeries and exhilarating truths, fake interviews and vérité theatre, smoke and mirrors. Tipping the wink with its subtitle, and the opening, titular trick from Georges Melies’