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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

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The Q&A for Deliver Me From Nowhere: September 29, 2025 The new Springsteen biopic "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" has started making the rounds of major film festivals before wider release in October. Yesterday I saw one of the previews at the New York Film Festival , at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. Yes, there is something special about seeing a film in a state of the art theater with a packed house of more than 1,000 people in New York City, especially when many -- most -- of the attendees are fans of the biopic's subject. There have been many recent biopics focusing on pop icons of the past 60 years. Typically, they fudge the history in the service of mythologizing the subject, leading to some crowning achievement. Think of "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Queen's triumphant performance at "Live Aid," circumstantial facts be damned. Or "A Complete Unknown" and its version of Bob Dylan surviving a violently booing and project...