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SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE – Review by Diane Carson

December 1, 2025December 4, 2025 Diane Carson bruce springsteen, jeremy allen white, jeremy strong, Odessa Young, Scott Cooper, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Stephen Graham

Among the most difficult, daunting challenges for a biopic amending the image of an iconic musical artist is that the film must clear a very high bar. Performances, script, cinematography, and, certainly, music and sound must impressively capture the star’s persona while also convincingly exploring a previously unmapped landscape. Insights into creative strategies, battles with still sensitive traumas, and struggles to cope: all qualify as meritorious subject matter. Moreover, such a film must provide some truths that fans have not fully recognized or scrutinized. Kudos, then, to director Scott Cooper for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere which remarkably meets all these criteria with his immersion in the life of the celebrated Bruce Springsteen.

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SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Middleburg FF 2025) – Review by Leslie Combemale

October 24, 2025October 25, 2025 Leslie Combemale bruce springsteen, Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, jeremy allen white, jeremy strong, middelburg ff 2025, Odessa Young, Scott Cooper, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Stephen Graham

Nebraska was an exorcism. Everyone who has heard the album, everyone knows the story of its making, the fact that Bruce Springsteen went off and recorded it on one lone cassette, which got transferred exactly as recorded, knows that. It’s in every line, every sound, every breath you can hear on the sparse, emotionally raw songs. There are two camps of Springsteen fans, those who swear by Nebraska as his best album, and those who accept it as the artistic catharsis it is, and play it only on rainy days or dark times.

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SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE – Review by T.J. Callahan

October 22, 2025October 25, 2025 T. J. Callahan bruce springsteen, jeremy allen white, jeremy strong, Scott Cooper, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Stephen Graham

Let’s cut to the chase…Deliver Me from Nowhere is NOT a Springsteen concert film. It’s NOT how Bruce becomes The Boss. It’s NOT Top 40 Bruce. What this film is, is deep cuts Bruce. Really deep. Deliver Me from Nowhere is just like the title alludes to, a young Springsteen, who’s starting to achieve some success, wrestling with the ghosts of his past while trying to find something real in all the noise.

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SHE CAME TO ME – Review by Leslie Combemale

September 21, 2023September 23, 2023 Leslie Combemale bruce springsteen, Bryce Dessner, Katia Labèque, rebecca miller, she came to me

Tthe audacious, bizarre, inconceivable dramedy will prove to be a favorite to quirky indie fans. There’s care and consideration in every aspect of the production, from the awards-heavy cast, to the careful color stories in the production design, to the embarrassment of riches offered up in the score and music. Writer/director Rebecca Miller gives her characters real issues, often to the point of mental illness, and they are issues that build interactions and relationships that offer less clearcut hero/villain scenarios, thereby making them worlds more interesting. She collaborated with her cast in developing their roles, and it shows in the commitment the performers give to their performances. The result is a sort of screwball comedy meets magical realism, with a lot of heart thrown in.

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JAZZ FEST: A NEW ORLEANS STORY – Review by Marilyn Ferdinand

July 21, 2022July 21, 2022 Marilyn Ferdinand (Archived Contributor) bruce springsteen, documentary, Frank Marshall, George Wein, Irma Thomas, jazz fest a new orleans story, Jimmy Buffett, Mardi Gras, Marsalis, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Ryan Suffern, Suzannah Powell

Jazz, America’s great musical invention, has won enthusiastic fans the world over, but none moreso than those who rocked its cradle in the place of its birth—New Orleans. The annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival draws more than 100,000 people each of its seven days to hear jazz and its many musical offshoots on more than a dozen stages, eat arguably the best food on the planet, enjoy crafts booths and exhibits, and absorb the unique energy and spirit that any visitor to the Crescent City feels the moment their feet hit the ground.

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Gurinder Chadha on BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, Human Dignity, Brexit and the Boss – Leslie Combemale interviews

August 11, 2019August 11, 2019 Leslie Combemale 0 Comments blinded by the light, brexit, bruce springsteen, Gurinder Chadha, Sarfraz Manzoor, Viveik Kalra

Writer/director/producer Gurinder Chadha is one of the UK’s most beloved, prolific filmmakers. The fact that she’s female seems incidental. She landed on Hollywood’s radar with Bend it Like Beckham (2002), which threw Keira Knightly’s career into hyperdrive. Among her films is the Jane Austin fan cult favorite, , Bride and Prejudice. She’s developing an animated musical series, Pashmina, for Netflix. I spoke to Gurinder about her new film, Blinded by the Light, about the joy that carries through the movie, the universal power of Bruce Springsteen, and how she believes being a woman impacts her work as a filmmaker.