July 24, 2024
This week, while Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band wrap up the European leg of their 2024 tour with two London shows beginning tomorrow night, Thom Zimny, Springsteen's longtime film/video collaborator and archivist, also will be launching a mini-"tour" of his own in the same city. Zimny will be talkin' Springsteen and screening footage in London this coming Friday night, as well as in Asbury Park next month and in Toronto in September, where he (along with Springsteen, reportedly) will be premiering Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band on the big screen. Here are the details on all three upcoming Springsteen-themed evenings with Zimny:
This Friday night's event at London's Prince Charles Cinema is entitled Springsteen On Screen: An Evening With Thom Zimny, and not surprisingly it is sold out. As promised on the Cinema's website, lucky ticket-holders will get to sit in on a "conversation with the man who directed Springsteen On Broadway, Western Stars and Letter to You, who pieced together the countless hours of archival footage to bring us Wings For Wheels, The Promise and The Ties that Bind, and who has had a large hand in shaping how we see Bruce Springsteen on our screens...But that’s not all; alongside our discussion exploring the long history Zimny and Springseen share, we’ll also be screening full live-performances of specific tracks from The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts, Live in Hyde Park, Springsteen on Broadway and more!!!"
Next month, in Asbury Park, Zimny will host and moderate the TeachRock benefit event Stories From The Road. Click here to read Letters To You's previous, detailed report on this upcoming event. Zimny will screen what the event's official announcement is calling "never-before-seen footage of the E Street Band" and discussing stories from the road with TeachRock founder Stevie Van Zandt and his fellow E Street Band members Roy Bittan, Garry Tallent, and Max Weinberg. A few tickets still remain as of this writing, but only if you and/or your group/organization can afford to purchase one of the remaining $10,000 or $25,000 sponsor packages.
And it's just been announced that in September, Zimny will present the world premiere of his latest film, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, at The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF.) Click here to read Letters To You's previous report on this film, which is scheduled to begin streaming on Disney+/Hulu this October. A report in The Toronto Star claims that Springsteen also will be in attendance for the TIFF world-premiere of Road Diary. Further details regarding specific dates, showtimes, and tickets-availability won't be available to the general public before August 13, when the Festival's full schedule will be announced and presumably made available online at the official TIFF website.