Articles by Rob Carson

Love's Labours Lost

Kenneth Branagh

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

When director Julie Taymor's Titus was released a few months ago, almost every review expressed surprise that a film had been made of Titus...

Various

The Concert for Bangladesh

PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2007

In the spring of 1971, East Pakistan (soon to become Bangladesh) was devastated by both civil war and extensive flooding, a catastrophe tha...

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan 1975-1981: Rolling Thunder and the Gospel Years

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

Joel Gilbert fronts a Bob Dylan tribute band and recently he has been moonlighting as a filmmaker as well, making a series of fan documenta...

Masked and Anonymous

Larry Charles

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Masked and Anonymous is a strange and fascinating collaboration between Bob Dylan and TV writer/director Larry Charles, starring Dylan (ami...

Festival Express

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

All of the great rock documentaries from the days of the dinosaurs (Don't Look Back, Woodstock, Gimme Shelter, The Last Waltz) offer someth...

The Merchant of Venice

Michael Radford

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

Al Pacino's take on Shylock is the main selling point here, and Pacino's performance in one of Shakespeare's toughest roles is admittedly r...

Rheostatics

The Whale Music Concert, 1992

PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

In Novermber 1992, with two critically-acclaimed albums behind them and a theatre full of the converted before them, the Rheostatics threw...

Backbeat

Iain Softley

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

Backbeat is a terrific and often overlooked biopic from 1994 about Stuart Sutcliffe, the original bass player for the Beatles, who fell in...