Springsteen & I

Ridley Scott served as producer for this Bruce Springsteen-centric documentary from Baillie Walsh, in which fans provide the stories, performance footage, and three-word descriptions of the Boss, such as “passion, desire, freedom.” One Dutch man caught his first Springsteen concert when he was 9 years old (it clocked in at three and a half hours), and has been a fan ever since. Other speakers describe onstage encounters, including a Scottish woman who got her wish to dance with Springsteen like Courteney Cox in the “Dancing in the Dark” music video, and an Elvis impersonator who realized a lifelong ambition when he performed “All Shook Up” with Springsteen and the E Street Band. Also featured are plenty of offstage encounters, including a jam session with a Copenhagen busker. In other clips, fans simply talk about the role that Springsteen's music has played in their lives, such as the trucker who listens to the acoustic Nebraska during her cross-country excursions, calling the album “political, but poetic at the same time.” One of the more amusing testimonials comes from a little girl who says, “You can see his veins popping out, because he's working so hard.” As viewers will note during performances of “Thunder Road” and “Born to Run,” she's right. Extras include additional fan submissions and bonus songs. Presented in DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and stereo on DVD, and DTS-HD 5.1 and LPCM stereo on Blu-ray, this is recommended. (K. Fennessy)