Daniel Roher's colorful rockumentary portrait of Bob Dylan's former backup band opens this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
At initial glance, a roots outfit whose music has become synonymous with Americana wouldn’t seem like the logical choice to open a Canadian film festival.
Although, structurally speaking, the production follows a safely familiar path, it doesn’t require a lot of fancy footwork when you’ve got an enthusiastic on-camera fan base including Bruce Springsteen, Scorsese, Eric Clapton, Taj Mahal and Van Morrison, a terrific story-telling arc, a treasure trove of archival footage and, naturally, those iconic songs.
But soon after the experience, they’d find their signature sound in a secluded ugly pink house nestled in Woodstock, New York, building a studio in the basement, where Dylan would often hang out and would give rise to The Band’s seminal albumWith success inevitably came the eventual discord, and the five guys who always felt more like brothers than bandmates would succumb to a familiar familial discord fueled by the usual drugs, alcohol, ego and resentment, as Robertson and Garth Hudson...
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