Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back
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Movie Reviews of Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back
Movie Review: The Definitive Version of the Definitive Documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back (1965 Tour Deluxe Edition)
This is a must have for all fans of Bob Dylan. The paperback and flipbook are welcome added additions. Worth the price and highly recommended.
Movie Review: The Classic Rock Film Just Gets Better
Summary: 5 Stars
We forget what a creative force that Dylan has been over the past 50 years, and this film reminds us in spades. It needs to be seen with Scorcese' No Direction Home, because they capture a young artist at the moment of his maximum creativity and it is an awe-inspiring sight.Movie Review: Exceeded expectations
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent stuff ! Dylan's pioneering spirit documenting the transitional times is very well filmed too. There are so many 'firsts' in this film. Superb work of art not to be missed ! Movie Review: Mr. Dylan naked
Summary: 4 Stars
I was 8 years old when Bob Dylan embarked on his 1965 tour, so to be able to see it some 42 years later is a real treat. This is Dylan when he could fill a house with just his acoustic guitar & harmonica. My only problem with this is that it's a little hard to follow. But what the hell, it's Dylan... Enjoy...Movie Review: don't look back - 1965
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are a Dylan fan and don't own this, then run out and buy or order now. This is not to be missed. Don't Look Back, shot by D.A. Pennebaker (who almost missed the chance to shoot the document, actually, when is partner, Leah was approached by Albert Grossman, Dylan's manager) to see if they would be intresed in touring with Dylan to shoot the documentary. Leah said, "Who's Bob Dylan" When Pennebaker returned he was flabberasted, but thank god for all, the stubborn Grossman returned and the contract or deal was hashed out over a hotel napkin (true story).
With a small budget, Don't Look Back is a lean, mean production of what the tour was really about, but it's not all sex, drugs, rock 'n roll. Hardly. In fact, it shows Dylan coming to terms with his own fame and how he negotiates this and how he negotiates his way through reporters, various interviewers (one famous scene with a 'science student' who Dylan toyed with in a game of cat and mouse, and who he asked, "Why should i want to know you? What could you ever do for me?" AT the time, maybe Dylan was right. As it would turn out, our young 'science student' went on to form Chrysalis Records, so that was a bit of a mistake - Dylan lacked some prescience here.
Here we see Dylan as a thoughtful, philosophical young man - so many terrific scenes here, including a meeting wtih Donovan, who is a running theme and joke through the film (and a tidbit of imformation, it was Donavan, Baez and Dylan who wrote the cards you see in Subterranean Homesick Blues the night before in a hotel room - the better cards were done by Donovan because he was more 'artistically inclined' according to many reliable sources; regardless, the cards were done by all three...).
Don't Look Back was the first "Rockumentary" in a real form that had ever been, and Pennebaker should be and has been applauded and rewarded for that. The opening scene is simply of Dylan holding his cards and the music of Subterranean Homesick Blues, what today we would call a music video - Pennebaker was the first to open a film in this style.
DLB is broken down into sections essentially; we see Dylan in concert, Dylan in hotel rooms with frinds, notably Baez and Bob Neuwirth who was his constant side-kick (that would change by 66); scenes traveling, scenes in green rooms, and footage of fans and some of the towns. But that's it:
Travel
Performance
Hotel Rooms
Interviews
Green Rooms
Some of the country (though not much).
I don't want to give away too much. Perhaps one other compelling reason to buy this version is that it includes the book with all of the text and dialogue for every single shot of the film which is excellent for the true Dylanologist or writer or journalist.
Buy it. Then buy Eat the Document, which is the folliwng year and note the diffrence a year makes.
This book, if you like Dylan, is then positively for you.
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