Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back (1965 Tour Deluxe Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back (1965 Tour Deluxe Edition)
Movie Review: Not Really A Review
Summary: 5 Stars
Two things -- There are references to Dylan being 24 at the time. He was actually 23.
Also, here's another vote for the release of "Eat The Document," centering around Bob's 1966 concert tour.
Movie Review: Bob Dylan is the epitome of rock n' roll. What a pimp!
Summary: 5 Stars
Dylan doesn't take crap from anybody in this extremely entertaining rockumentary. This DVD shows Bob Dylan on top of the world. The tour where he went from unplugged to plugged-in. Bob Dylan is in no way a sell-out. A lot of the DVD shows Dylan debating with a series of different people; mostly reporters that want an interview. He just blows them off, giving them absolutely nothing to write about and making them feel stupid in the process. Dylan is in your face; sticking it to the man every chance he gets. The discussions on the film really give you great insight into the way Dylan thinks and feels. He talks about his feelings as an atheist. He also seems to be pretty annoyed that people think he plays "folk" music. Most of the time, he seems to be having fun with the individual he's debating with; trying to get a rise out of them.
If you like Bob Dylan's lyrics, this is an essential piece of Bob Dylan's discography. Bob Dylan is like an open book. This gives you a lot of insight to Bob Dylan's personality off-stage. One of the best rockumentaries I have ever purchased.
Movie Review: Don't Think Twice-It's Alright
Summary: 5 Stars
This innovative film includes raw footage of the video for Subterrean Homesick Blues, Dylan talking to teenaged fans (that happen to have a thing for him) Dylan songs, Donovan and Dylan bonding, Bob lecturing a science student who still probably doesn't know what hit him, Joan Baez singing and Dylan ignoring her (he starts typing loudly on a typewriter while she's singing a beautiful song) You won't be dissapointed with this. An inside look at a day in the life of one of music's most infuential people. Reccomended for any Bob Dylan/Donovan/Joan Baez fan. Movie Review: Vintage Bob...a classic
Summary: 5 Stars
It would be impossible for me to say all I wanted about Bob Dylan in a short review, so I will just say I'm a huge fan. Don't Look Back is a classic, a must-have for Dylan fans. This fly-on-the-wall film shows Bob at just 24, ready to turn the music world on its head by "going electric." Dylan is shown doing what he does best (besides writing songs): toying with reporters and would-be interviewers like a cat would toy with a mouse. There is the infamous run-in with the Science Student (my favorite part of the film). Dylan turns every question the poor kid asks around and fires them right back with honed precision, leaving the young Englishman confused and babbling. There is the hilarious part at the end of the film where Dylan insists "I am just as good a singer as Caruso. Have you ever heard me sing? You have to listen closely, but I hit all those notes. And I can hold my breath three times as long, if I wanted to." Dylan is poking fun at himself, but the befuddled reporter doesn't get it. And then there are the intimate, silent shots of Bob on a train, removing his trademark sunglasses and revealing visible exhaustion, reminding those watching of the enormous pressures being placed upon him. Add all this to the concert footage and the classic opening to the film, in which a deadpan-looking Bob is filmed holding cue cards with lyrics to "Subterranean Homesick Blues" printed on them, and you've got a wonderfully entertaining look at one of the world's greatest artists. Included are supporting players like Joan Baez (slightly obnoxious in this film), Donovan, and Bob's manager, Albert Grossman. All Dylan fans, and fans of rock-oriented films, should see Don't Look Back. You won't regret it.Movie Review: So good it hurts
Summary: 5 Stars
This film gives the viewer a candid view of an incredibly talented, precocious, irreverent, and actually quite beautiful young Dylan revealed in wonderful concert and behind-the-scenes footage. After seeing the film I felt that Dylan's legendary arrogance has been perhaps misunderstood -- actually he was pretty humble and engaging with school kids and fellow musicians -- more interested in learning from them than in showing off his own talents. What comes off as arrogance is his almost allergic aversion to simplistic, cliched, or hypocritical concepts imposed upon him by clueless, syncophantic journalists and fans. His trenchant verbal sparring with a reporter from Time magazine, in which he argues that the readers of Time are settling for secondhand drivel and that Time has too much to lose by telling the truth, is one of the most refreshing and amusing interviews I've ever seen. Likewise, one can appreciate his struggle to avoid being pigeonholed as either a political activist or a folk singer; certainly his political sensibilities are profound, but he understandably chaffed at the attempts to turn him into a mouthpiece for any single cause or established movement. His instinctive fight to keep the doors of perception ajar has proven well founded; it is precisely his protean shape-shifting and incessant search for new levels of meaning and musical expression that have made him such a timeless icon. The one sour note in the film was his obviously strained relationship with Joan Baez, not only a brilliant singer in her own right but also a witty mimic and comic, whom he relegates to groupie status and mostly ignores. Given the fact that she invited Dylan to share her stage when he was virtually unknown, one would have expected Dylan to have invited her to sing a song or two. What a waste of talent -- but then, apparently their romantic relationship was in its death throes, so it may be unfair to judge. Ultimately, this film made me sad simply because it shows the sheer brilliance of a person at a moment in time that is now forty years in the past. We can look back, but we do so at the risk of having our hearts broken.