Scorsese on Dylan, Netflix and beating back the blockbuster

June 13, 2019 at 5:00 a.m. | Updated June 13, 2019 at 12:59 p.m.

by Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec.1975 file photo, musicians Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Richi Havens, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan perform the finale of the The Rolling Thunder Revue, a tour headed by Dylan. Martin Scorsese’s latest film, “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese,” is a blistering semi-fictional documentary that resurrects Dylan’s mythic 1975-1976 tour and its rambling cavalcade across a post-Vietnam America. The film, which opens Wednesday in limited theaters and on Netflix, includes restored performance footage, scenes of the backstage circus and interviews with many of the participants, including Dylan’s first on-camera interview in 10 years. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - In this Dec.1975 file photo, musicians Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Richi Havens, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan perform the finale of the The Rolling Thunder Revue, a tour headed by Dylan. Martin Scorsese’s latest film, “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese,” is a blistering semi-fictional documentary that resurrects Dylan’s mythic 1975-1976 tour and its rambling cavalcade across a post-Vietnam America. The film, which opens Wednesday in limited theaters and on Netflix, includes restored performance footage, scenes of the backstage circus and interviews with many of the participants, including Dylan’s first on-camera interview in 10 years. (AP Photo, File)

NEW YORK (AP) - Martin Scorsese said the stranglehold blockbusters have on American moviegoing has gone too far.

In an interview, Scorsese cited a multiplex that recently devoted 11 of its 12 screens to one movie: "Avengers: Endgame." The filmmaker said "that's not fair."

Scorsese's latest film is his first for Netflix. "Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese" chronicles Dylan's mythic 1975-76 tour across a post-Vietnam America. Scorsese's upcoming big-budget mob drama "The Irishman" will also be released by the streamer.

The director says that he went to Netflix because every other studio refused him. Scorsese said "the regular film" has to go someplace because "people are going to continue to make them."

"Rolling Thunder Revue" premiered Wednesday on Netflix and is playing in select theaters.