Entertainment reporter/columnist {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Two very different concert tour films hit streaming services this week, a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the creation of a tour by a veteran superstar who is taking a hard look at mortality, the other, a straight-ahead concert film that captures today’s hottest young pop star in all her rock glory. The former is “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,” streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
The latter is “Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour” streaming on Netflix. Directed by Thom Zimny, who has become Springsteen’s film chronicler, “Road Diary” begins with the rehearsals for and the creation of the set list of the E Street Band’s tour that began in early 2023 and has dates scheduled through next July. Narrated by Springsteen, the movie provides plenty of visual, aural and narrative insight into the tour rehearsals, where Little Steven Van Zandt took over as music director to whip the 17-member band — with horns and choir — into shape.
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Then it moves to the concerts themselves, from soundchecks to pre-show routines to the concerts themselves, while using some rare footage from the 70s and early 80s — Springsteen was superstitious about being filmed back then — to tell the E Street Band in performance history. It delivers that history, and views of the world tour, through interv.
