Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
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The cultural phenomenon continues on the big screen! Immerse yourself in this once-in-a-lifetime concert film experience with a breathtaking, cinematic view of the history-making tour.
- Released: 2023-10-13
- Runtime: 160 minutes
- Genre: Music
- Stars: Matt Billingslea, Paul Sidoti, Melanie Nyema, Mike Meadows, Jan Ravnik, Eliotte Woodford, Jeslyn Gorman, Kamilah Marshall, Raphael Thomas, Taylor Swift, Amos Heller, Karen Chuang, Amanda Balen
- Director: Sam Wrench
Comments
- andredejongh - 1 July 2024
Effortless, self assured and truly artistic
After seeing this documentary I understand why this woman is such a huge world star. She out performs everyone you can think of. Why? It is all her. She's a real singer/songwriter. Every single fibre of her whole being is in this 3 hour long performance. She is in control, she's sharing her life's emotions and experience while being an excellent singer, musician, composer, lyricist and performer. The concert never gets boring. On the contrary I could keep on watching even after it finished. One of her last songs is the song 'Mastermind' in which she tells us that her success is not an accident. She planned to be loved, to get all the love she is getting now from these millions of fans. As a child no one wanted to play with her and thus she used her musical talent to create this masterplan. It's quite revealing I think, because it feels like she played every single one of us. Even I fell for her, while watching this concert registration. But she's like the piped piper, luring each and everyone of us in. But we don't feel played. Because this woman is real. I have never seen a performer be so confident on stage. So in control. So relaxed. So focused. She's in charge. With her great voice, her smart written lyrics. She's a modern day romantic, a 21st century successor of the Brönte sisters. She's good, really good. - hoernkeem - 27 March 2024
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023, Sam Wrench) It is Taylor's world... we just live in it, and bask in her glory
Eric's Grade: A- It is times like this I feel it is Taylor Swift's world, and we are all just living in it. Taylor Swift is a household name and a musical and pop culture icon, and that was before 2023. In 2023 the already popular musical artist entered the stratosphere with her Eras Tour which became cultural touchstones and economic booms to every city she visited. She would go on to exert influence on professional sports with her romance with Kansas City Chiefs' football player Travis Kelce, and even go on to be named Time's Person of the Year. The Eras Tour is set to stretch to the end of 2024, but on the heels of the American leg of the tour Swift produced a concert film so all those who were not able to bathe in her glory live could do so in an AMC theater of their choice or later on Disney+. Not only was her concert world altering, but she completely rocked the film industry with her unique distribution of the film. Swift basically forsook partnering with studios instead partnering with AMC to distribute the film directly to them. It quickly became the highest grossing concert film of all time. Predictably a bidding war ensued for the streaming rights to the film as well which would be ultimately won by Disney+ where the film was finally released in March of 2024.
The concert film itself, directed by Sam Wrench, was filmed at the three shows at Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, California. I watched "Taylor's Version" on Disney+ which took the just under 3-hour film and beefed it up to 3 ½ hours with some additional performances. Despite the enormous runtime the concert flowed extremely smoothly and is a dazzling spectacle to behold as the superb production value, amazing sets, visuals and costuming all combine with amazing performances from Swift and her fellow singers and dancers. The concept of the Eras Tour itself is a stupendous idea as each album/era of Swift's gets its own section in the show each with their own lavish and distinctive production design. It is a marvel to behold cementing Taylor Swift's hold on the pop culture zeitgeist. I feel at this stage people fall into a few varying camps when it comes to Taylor and this inflated success. On one hand there are die hard Swifties which are legion and have clearly let their voice be heard over the course of 2023. There are also those like me who are far from the rabid fan base, but enjoy Taylor enough to kick back and crush a bottle of wine on the couch while enjoying all the Eras Tour has to offer, and even perhaps singing along with a song or two as the wine leaks out of the bottle magically. Then there are the haters who roll their eyes because god forbid anything they don't appreciate be good or celebrated. Love her or hate her it is clear that Taylor Swift is at the top of her game and is one of the few artists in the world with insanely global reach and appeal. 'The Eras Tour' concert film is an amazing celebration of her musical career and massive appeal, and while nothing lasts forever, right now Taylor is clearly the name at the top of pop culture pyramid, and if she plays her cards right could be there for some time to come.
