{"id":491705,"date":"2019-10-29T15:36:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T21:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=905462"},"modified":"2019-10-29T15:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T21:36:05","slug":"inside-the-making-of-bruce-springsteens-western-stars-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/inside-the-making-of-bruce-springsteens-western-stars-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Making of Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u2018Western Stars\u2019 Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/rev-1-WS-858628r_High_Res_JPEGW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was two guys hanging out in a kitchen making a movie,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/thom-zimny\/\" id=\"auto-tag_thom-zimny\" data-tag=\"thom-zimny\">Thom Zimny<\/a>. The two guys in question happened to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bruce-springsteen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bruce-springsteen\" data-tag=\"bruce-springsteen\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a> and Zimny himself: They co-directed the new movie <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/western-stars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_western-stars\" data-tag=\"western-stars\">Western Stars<\/a><\/em>, which captures powerful live performances of Springsteen\u2019s latest album in its entirety, along with pensive desert scenes overlaid with Springsteen\u2019s confessional voiceovers. Zimny, who has been making Springsteen documentaries and concert films as part of Springsteen\u2019s team since the 2001 HBO special <em>Live in New York City <\/em>(and also recently made <em>The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash<\/em>) joined host Brian Hiatt for an in-depth breakdown of the making of <em>Western Stars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To hear the entire interview, press play below or download and subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rolling-stone-music-now\/id1078431985?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">iTunes<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0jCfnXfdYhwIM2I4x7SxZx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spotify.<\/a><\/p>\n<h5> <\/h5>\n<p>Download and subscribe to our weekly podcast,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rolling-stone-music-now\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rolling-stone-music-now\" data-tag=\"rolling-stone-music-now\">Rolling Stone Music Now<\/a><\/em>, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rolling-stone-music-now\/id1078431985?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">iTunes<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0jCfnXfdYhwIM2I4x7SxZx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> (or wherever you get your podcasts), and check out two years worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth, career-spanning interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, Ice Cube, Neil Young, the National, Questlove, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Scott Weiland, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Costello, Donald Fagen, Phil Collins, Alicia Keys, Stephen Malkmus, Sebastian Bach, the Pixies, Billy Idol, Tom Petty, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, the Zombies, Gary Clark Jr. and many more \u2014 plus dozens of episodes featuring genre-spanning discussions, debates and explainers with Rolling Stone\u2019s critics and reporters. Tune in every Friday at 1 p.m. ET to hear Rolling Stone Music Now broadcast live from SiriusXM\u2019s studios on Volume, channel 106.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-western-stars-movie-thom-zimny-905462\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was two guys hanging out in a kitchen making a movie,\u201d says Thom Zimny. The two guys in question happened to be Bruce Springsteen and Zimny himself: They co-directed the new movie Western Stars, which captures powerful live performances of Springsteen\u2019s latest album in its entirety, along with pensive desert scenes overlaid with Springsteen\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 04:45:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}