{"id":491764,"date":"2019-10-31T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=906347"},"modified":"2019-10-31T14:53:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:53:37","slug":"watch-the-short-film-bruce-springsteen-co-directed-before-western-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-the-short-film-bruce-springsteen-co-directed-before-western-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Short Film Bruce Springsteen Co-Directed Before \u2018Western Stars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The new documentary Western Stars<\/a><\/em> marks Bruce Springsteen<\/a>\u2019s much-heralded feature<\/em> debut as a co-director. But five years ago, he had a lesser-known trial run behind the camera. Just as on Western Stars<\/em>, he and longtime collaborator Thom Zimny<\/a> share the directing credit for a short film (or elaborate extended music video) built upon the underrated High Hopes<\/em> track \u201cHunter of Invisible Game.\u201d Springsteen, who played characters onscreen in 1980s videos \u2014 including \u201cGlory Days\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m on Fire\u201d \u2014 again does some full-fledged acting in \u201cHunter,\u201d playing a wanderer in a post-apocalyptic landscape that owes something to The Road<\/em>. Zimny discussed the \u201cHunter\u201d film, the making of Western Stars,<\/em> and other aspects of his work with Springsteen in the new episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To hear the entire interview, press play below or download and subscribe on iTunes<\/a> or Spotify.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThat was the first time that we got it to a space of collaborating together in the edit room and in shooting,\u201d says Zimny. \u201cAnd he started to compose in the edit room.\u201d As with Western Stars<\/em>, Springsteen \u2014 a longtime fan of Ennio Morricone and other film composers \u2014 wrote and played a long stretch of atmospheric instrumental music for \u201cHunter of Invisible Game.\u201d \u201cThat track was great to work with, very cinematic, with the strings\u2026 Bruce was there in an active role, discussing the narrative and the visual approach to telling that story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Download and subscribe to our weekly podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now<\/em>, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on iTunes<\/a> or 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

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The new documentary Western Stars marks Bruce Springsteen\u2019s much-heralded feature debut as a co-director. But five years ago, he had a lesser-known trial run behind the camera. Just as on Western Stars, he and longtime collaborator Thom Zimny share the directing credit for a short film (or elaborate extended music video) built upon the underrated […]<\/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-491764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 05:23:22","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\/491764","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=491764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}