Scott Cooper’s moody, introspective musical biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” begins on rocky ground. Opening in Freehold, New Jersey circa 1957, with a lacquer of black and white to prove the point, we witness an 8-year-old Springsteen (Matthew Anthony Pellicano) climbing into his mother’s car to fetch his drunkard father Dutch (Stephen Graham) from the bar. Later that night, …
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Just as A Complete Unknown escaped the dreary conventionality of cradle-to-grave music biopics by surveying the nascent period in the stardom of its unknowable subject, Bob Dylan, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere makes affecting gains by focusing on the Artist as a Depressed Young Man. Which is not to say Scott Cooper’s Bruce Springsteen portrait is a downer. If you’re …
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It’s always interesting seeing movies explore the creative process, such as what Steven Spielberg did recently in The Fabelmans, or larger-scale enterprises like the Oscar-winning Amadeus. But Mozart wasn’t around to give his OK to that particular film. Bruce Springsteen, however, after turning down numerous past attempts and offers, is around to pass judgment on director-writer Scott Cooper‘s anti-biopic Springsteen: …
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It’s always interesting seeing movies explore the creative process, such as what Steven Spielberg did recently in The Fabelmans, or larger-scale enterprises like the Oscar-winning Amadeus. But Mozart wasn’t around to give his OK to that particular film. Bruce Springsteen, however, after turning down numerous past attempts and offers, is around to pass judgment on director-writer Scott Cooper‘s anti-biopic Springsteen: …
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The Telluride Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 52nd edition, showcasing a mix of world premieres, international debuts and awards-season hopefuls from some of cinema’s most acclaimed auteurs. Among the buzziest titles in the main program, known as the SHOW, are the world premieres of Chloé Zhao’s Shakespearean-set drama “Hamnet,” starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal; Edward Berger’s …
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The Boss is coming to Telluride. 20th Century’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere from director Scott Cooper, starring Jeremy Allen White as the title star, is set to launch its world premiere Friday night at the 52nd annual Telluride Film Festival, which announced its official schedule Thursday. See the full lineup below. In addition to Cooper, White, co-star Jeremy Strong …
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Besides being American icons, chart toppers and stadium packers, what do Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen have in common? Well, the spectacular songwriter thing aside, both the Boss and the self-styled Showgirl are at the heart of a new Donald Trump-fueled lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission today to put the kibosh on resale schemes that snare hot tickets …
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A ticket-reselling operation used a network of fake accounts to bypass Ticketmaster’s security protocols to grab hundreds of thousands of tickets to hugely popular tours for artists like Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen and then re-sold them for millions, federal regulators said Monday. The Federal Trade Commission alleges the operation used illicit software that masked IP addresses, as well as …
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