FILTER SCREEN
Soul driver
Measured explication of veteran band’s global joust with mortality, written and produced by The Boss himself.
By Mark Cooper.
Weinberg keeps time
Springsteen and Curtis King soak up the love.
E Street Band (from left) Gary Tallent, Nils Lofgren, Steven Van Zandt, Springsteen, Max Weinberg, Patti Scialfa;
Bruce and Little Steven share the mike
scenes from writer/narrator Bruce Springsteen’s Road Diary
saxman Jake Clemons
Disney
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
★★★
Dir: Thom Zimny
DISNEY+. S
WHEN DIRECTOR/EDITOR Thom Zimny’s latest collaboration with Team Springsteen premiered mid-September at the Toronto Film Festival, Patti Scialfa’s quiet admission midway through the film that she has multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that attacks the immune system, stole the headlines. A week later, Bruce turned 75. Back in February, Springsteen’s 98-year-old mother Adele died and a clip of them dancing to Glenn Miller’s In The Mood is the coda to this methodical account of the E Street Band’s post-Covid world tour. The Boss has been reassessing his work and reflecting on “the white hot light of an oncoming train” rushing his way since the loss of bandmates Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici, his 2016 autobiography and 2020’s Letter To