After looking at the Beyonce concert documentary, and
thinking on and off this month about The Irishman, I feel like I need to give
Martin Scorsese another look-over. With how much he’s dominated the larger
conversation about where the cinema industry is going, and how vindicated his
statements have grown in such a short time (the artistic quality of the MCU is
still arguable, but its effect on the industry isn't), I don’t want my
last thoughts about the man this decade to be filled with disappointment and a
want to highlight what has made the man so enduringly fascinating as a
storyteller. So let’s look at the other movie he made this year, a documentary
about Bob Dylan’s legendary Rolling Thunder Revue.
