Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back
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Movie Reviews of Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back
Movie Review: Essential On So Many Levels
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw "Don't Look Back" again the other day, my first time in a number of years. I actually was prompted to this after seeing the recent Bob Dylan interview on "60 Minutes" (to promote his equally astonishing memoir "Chronicles-Volume 1"). Were you as astonished by the "60 Minutes" piece as I was? In any event, "Don't Look Back" is essential on so many levels: first and foremost, it gives us a never-since equalled candid view at life (on the road) with Dylan. While it does contain a number of performances, "Don't Look Back" is not a concert movie. It's more a pre-concert movie than anything else, watching Dylan getting ready to perform in the "Green Door" and other performing halls' waiting rooms. The film also remains essential as a looking glass onto England, 1965, with its gritty, if not to say seemingly always gray outlook and feel to it.
Back to the "60 Minutes" interview. When I was watching it, it felt so familiar. Even though the interviews are separated by almost 40 years, Dylan played the "60 Minutes" interviewer in very much the same way he played the British journalists in 1965, although admittedly in a somewhat nice fashion now. Watch again the "interview" Dylan did with the reporter from "Time Magazine" towards the end of "Don't Look Back", it's the highlight of the movie for me.
The live performances in "Don't Look Back" are equally essential, if for no other reason that you are watching Dylan in Spring, 1965 (almost 40 years ago to the day!), a mere months before turning electric at the Newport Festival. From an audio perspective, the performances in "Don't Look Back" are very similar to the material covered in the 2 CD set "Dylan Live 1964", issued in Spring of 2004. The staying power of "Don't Look Back" 40 years later is proof that this movie is essential for any Dylan fan. Highly recommended!
Movie Review: A Parochial View of Bob Dylan...
Summary: 4 Stars
I'd give this documentary a solid B. There is some fantastic footage, great clips of Dylan writing and playing music, and interesting dialogue between him and Joan Baez. However, at times it is very hard to understand what the people in the documentary are saying. It is also incredibly frustrating to see Bob Dylan being such a jackass to the majority of people that he encounters throughout this film. I don't believe that this is necessarily a fair portrayal of the person he actually is- but maybe that's just me being naieve. He is opinionated, and animated, and this is surely evident in this film. I saw Bob Dylan recently in concert, and it's great to see what he once sounded and acted like live in the mid 60's, for better or worse. Recommended for "patient" Dylan fans. 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.