The best Sam Shepard’s music movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Sam Shepard’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Sam Shepard.
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
7.6/10
Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.
Renaldo and Clara
6.6/10
Filmed in the autumn of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour – featuring appearances and performances by Ronee Blakley, T-Bone Burnett, Jack Elliott, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Hawkins, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Arlen Roth, Sam Shepard, and Harry Dean Stanton – the film incorporates three distinct film genres: concert footage, documentary interviews, and dramatic fictional vignettes reflective of Dylan's song lyrics and life.
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
7/10
An intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of the artist herself.
