Grab some tissues if you're going to watch this trailer for Bruce Springsteen's Western Stars film
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We wrote that Bruce Springsteen’s Western Stars sounded “for all the world like a soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist.” Well, now that movie does exist. It’s also called Western Stars and you can watch a trailer for it right now.
A concert film in which The Boss performs the entire album with the help of a full orchestra “under the cathedral ceiling of his historic nearly 100-year-old barn,” Western Stars will premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. It will also include musings from the songwriter, who says in the below clip that he’s “spent 35 years trying to learn how to let go of the destructive parts of my character.” He adds, dust kicking up from his gravelly voice, “Nobody gets away unhurt.” Yeah, this one’s gonna get emotional.
“Bruce lives in the super rarified air of artists who have blazed new and important trails deep into their careers,” says Warner Bros. chairman Toby Emmerich in a statement. “With Western Stars, Bruce is pivoting yet again, taking us with him on an emotional and introspective cinematic journey, looking back and looking ahead. As one of his many fans for over 40 years, I couldn’t be happier to be a rider on this train with Bruce and Thom.”
The Thom to which he refers is Thom Zimny, who co-directed the feature with Springsteen himself. The pair previously collaborated on The Promise: The Making Of Darkness On The Edge Of Town, as well as the marvelous Springsteen On Broadway.
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Good trailer. I’m a big Bruce fan and thought Western Stars was just ok, but this makes me want to listen to it again and go see the film. Also, Patti Scialfa apparently doesn’t age.
Neither does Bruce.I saw him multiple times from the early 80’s into the 90’s and he doesn’t seem to be more than 35 years older..
Thought this was a Netflix original but I guess WB snagged it? Either way, can’t wait to watch and cry my fuckin eyes out like I did watching Broadway.Chasin’ Wild Horses is one of the best Springsteen songs of the 21st century easy.
It’s a very good album, very moving, and that trailer was moving too. If his sincerity is an act (and I don’t think it is), I’m willing to buy into it 100%. One of the few artists who can reflect on what it means to get old, which is probably why the new album means so much to me. Can’t wait to see the movie.
Please AV Club, I’m hardly going to masturbate to a Springsteen video.
Speak for yourself.
He’s a long way from the swamps of Jersey.
No one’s ever that far from the swamps of Jersey.
Maybe it was the swamps we got to know along the way…?
With all those honeymoon clips, close-ups on his wedding ring, etc., it seems like the subtext here is his marital problems and why he and Patti are staying together despite everything we’ve read about in the papers. Does that make this the old white dude version of Lemonade?
Barf. Springsteen really loves the smell of his own farts these days.
They smell like a mix of car exhaust and Woody Guthrie’s socks.