The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Old Town Center for the Arts to bring movies to Cottonwood!
“Monday Movies on Main” continues on Monday, Feb. 13 with the Cottonwood premiere of “Rolling Thunder Revue: a Bob Dylan Story” at 7 p.m. at Old Town Center for the Arts.
“Rolling Thunder Revue: a Bob Dylan Story” captures the spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during that year. Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, Rolling Thunder is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese.
In 1975, in an America defined by both the self-mythologizing pomp of the upcoming bicentennial and ongoing sociopolitical turmoil, Bob Dylan and a band of troubadours — including luminaries such as Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell — embarked on a now-legendary tour known as the Rolling Thunder Revue, a freewheeling variety show that was part traveling counterculture carnival, part spiritual pilgrimage.
Director Martin Scorsese blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief, with a magician’s sleight of hand, into a zeitgeist-defining cultural record that is as much a concert “documentary” as it is a slippery, chimerical investigation into memory, time, truth, and illusion.
At the center of it all is the magnetic Dylan, a sphinx-like philosopher-poet singing — with electrifying conviction — to the soul of an anxious nation.
Old Town Center for the Arts is located at 633 N. 5th Street (just off Main) in Cottonwood.