1 hour ago ‘10 innocent people died’: The tragic history behind dark Springsteen album that inspired new biopic

In ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’, Jeremy Allen White plays Bruce Springsteen during the writing of ‘Nebraska.’ Kevin E G Perry looks back at the creation of a haunting record that many, including Springsteen himself, consider the New Jersey songwriter’s finest work

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12 h. ago Jeremy Allen White has the last laugh as acting school hands him high school diploma at age 34 despite his chronic truancy

The 34-year-old Bear star attended the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan between 2005-2009, but he 'never had enough credits' to actually graduate

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20 h. ago Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review – A rote biopic that doesn’t do the Boss justice

Jeremy Allen White is perfectly convincing in the starring role, but Scott Cooper’s film reduces Springsteen’s life to cliches and generic pop psychology

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23 h. ago Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review – brooding, earnest portrait of the Boss’ crisis years

Jeremy Allen White gives a committed performance in this awkward biopic, stranded between rock mythology and pop-psych melodramaThis Boss-olatrous film only partly escapes music-movie cliches. This happens when Bruce Springsteen finally leaves his New Jersey heartland, and sees a shrink in shallow LA where he has bought a house. Otherwise, it’s all chunks of expositional dialogue (“I’m just trying to find something real in the noise!” “It’s like he’s channelling something deeply personal!”), black-and-white flashbacks to his tough upbringing, scenes in the recording studio with producers and execs looking on wonderstruck behind the glass while the magic happens. And there’s some very strange stuff about Bruce’s romantic life.Jeremy Allen White does an intelligent, committed job as Springsteen; Jeremy Strong gives of his considerable best with the thanklessly dull role of Bruce’s manager and friend Jon Landau, and Stephen Graham is Springsteen’s abusive but troubled dad Douglas with ...

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23 h. ago Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review – brooding, earnest portrait of the Boss’s crisis years

Jeremy Allen White gives a committed performance in this awkward biopic, stranded between rock mythology and pop-psych melodramaThis Boss-olatrous film only partly escapes music-movie cliches. This happens when Bruce Springsteen finally leaves his New Jersey heartland, and sees a shrink in shallow LA where he has bought a house. Otherwise, it’s all chunks of expositional dialogue (“I’m just trying to find something real in the noise!” “It’s like he’s channelling something deeply personal!”), black-and-white flashbacks to his tough upbringing, scenes in the recording studio with producers and execs looking on wonderstruck behind the glass while the magic happens. And there’s some very strange stuff about Bruce’s romantic life.Jeremy Allen White does an intelligent, committed job as Springsteen; Jeremy Strong gives of his considerable best with the thanklessly dull role of Bruce’s manager and friend Jon Landau, and Stephen Graham is Springsteen’s abusive but troubled dad Douglas with ...

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5 d. ago Jeremy Allen White says playing Bruce Springsteen in biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere was 'incredibly difficult' and made him 'unwell' as he admits: 'I feel like I'm pain for hire'

The film chronicles the life of the legendary rock star, 76, as he struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past while recording his album ' Nebraska ' in the early 1980s.

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8 d. ago Jeremy Allen White on the ‘very helpful’ advice Bruce Springsteen gave him

The Shameless actor plays the music star in biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.

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8 d. ago Bruce Springsteen larks about with leading men Jeremy Allen White and Stephen Graham at the premiere of his biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere during BFI London Film Festival

The trio appeared in high spirits as they led the stars at the event which took place during the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday.

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8 d. ago Jeremy Allen White: The pressure of playing Bruce Springsteen was paralysing

Jeremy Allen White said he initially felt the pressure of playing Bruce Springsteen was "daunting" and even "paralysing" at times.

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8 d. ago Why Bruce Springsteen finally said yes to letting Hollywood tell his story

Bruce Springsteen has revealed why he permitted the story of how he recorded Nebraska to be played out on the silver screen in a new film starring Jeremy Allen White as the legendary musician in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.

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3 w. ago Bossing it! The makers of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere on turning Jeremy Allen White into the rock icon

Springsteen’s 1982 lo-fi album Nebraska was recorded when the singer was battling with depression – but about to become a superstar. Now that pivotal period has been brought to the screen – with The Boss’s approvalTwo years ago, film director Scott Cooper and writer Warren Zanes were summoned to Bruce Springsteen’s house in New Jersey. In a sense, the meeting was a surprise: as Cooper notes, Springsteen was known for “saying no to every overture about making a film of his life since 1986”. But something about the screenplay Cooper had written had clearly piqued his interest. It was based on Zanes’ book Deliver Me from Nowhere, not a traditional career-spanning biography, but a forensically researched history of Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska, which Zanes calls “the greatest left-turn performed by someone who is operating at the top of the charts in musical history”.Released between Springsteen’s first US No 1 album, 1980’s The River, and the world-conquering Born in the USA in 19...

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3 w. ago Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review – solid biopic both embraces and avoids cliche

New York film festival: Jeremy Allen White is a convincingly tortured rock star in this smartly narrow and specific look at a particular chapter of music historyThe genre of the musical biopic is one that, as Timothée Chalamet acknowledged while accepting a Sag award for playing Bob Dylan earlier this year, “could be perhaps tired”. The beats of the genre – the initial obstacles, the double-edged sword of success, the actors’ pursuit of industry awards for spirited impersonation – are by now so familiar that you’re almost expected to enter with more than a bit of skepticism, even when the artist at hand is one as widely beloved as Bruce Springsteen.Like A Complete Unknown, in which Chalamet portrayed Dylan from 1961 until his pivot to electric in 1965, Deliver Me from Nowhere, Springsteen’s authorized biopic starring Jeremy Allen White, tries to thread a difficult needle between offering the standard treats and subverting expectations, between narrativizing genius and resisting hagi...

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