Bob Dylan - No Direction Home
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Movie Review: Bob Dylan - No Direction Home
Summary: 5 Stars
A MUST HAVE for those who are either Dylan fans or have an interest in his music and poetry. Movie Review: He was only a kid...
Summary: 5 Stars
... and we, barely more than toddlers, worshipped him. Memorized his lyrics so well, we could sing them stupid drunk. We wrang drops of meaning out of the dishrag. Incredible documentary. The best yet. Yes, it was an astounding life, time, rise to fame, reshaping of American music of many generes, but for what good end? You gotta serve somebody. You gotta serve somebody... he was just a freeking kid. How many songs really meant nothing? like "When The Ship Comes In?" written in "retaliation" over a refused hotel room. Yet we swallowed it all.Movie Review: Even non-Dylan fans will appreciate this brilliant, illuminating documentary on the great American musical genius
Summary: 5 Stars
Martin Scorsese scores big in this documentary on the great Bob Dylan. Interestingly, Scorsese also filmed a documentary in 1978 on The Band's last concert called "The Last Waltz". The Band were the backing band for Dylan before striking out on their own so this Dylan documentary ties things up nicely.
"No Direction Home" explores Dylan's life and career up until his motorcycle accident in 1966. There are incisive interviews with people he met along the way, rare footage of Dylan on and off stage, and rare and illuminating interviews with the great man himself.
This film does much to explain the seemingly inscrutable nature of Dylan. He is definitely his own man and like many great artists he stands outside his own time.
The highlight is footage of Dylan singing "Mr Tambourine Man" at the Newport Festival in July 24, 1964 - just a man by himself on stage with a guitar and harmonica saying nothing and yet saying everything...
This is not just for fans but for anybody with a passing interest in Dylan and the tumultuous musical and political world of the late 50s early 60s.
As well as the documentary, the DVD also contains full-length versions of some of his "live" performances between 1963-1966.
Movie Review: Gives you shivers
Summary: 5 Stars
What a scary experience this is, seeing Dylan's life as practically single train of thought, from the early days all the way to an early peak in his career. When you see what an elfin, vulnerable guy he really is it makes the story all the more amazing. He was no more ready to stand up to the onslaught of criticism than any of us, but somehow he withstood it and came out stronger. Dylan was a hero of mine before this; now even more so.
Can Scorsese do no wrong? Take a look at Last Waltz if you haven't already. Dig Dylan in that snappy hat!
Movie Review: A masterpiece of documentary filmmaking
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the main treats is the wonderful, rare archival footage of 50's-era Hibbing, early 60's Greenwich Village, and numerous original pathfinders of the genre that would become branded by the recording industry as folk music.
The first disk is the most interesting, and provides a background of how the artist was created. From his beginnings as a youth in Hibbing, listening late into the night to performers on distant AM stations, he latches onto their sounds, and the musician-composer begins to develop. We see a great artist growing not in a vacuum, but rather through a compulsion to consume and digest everything around him, and to experiment without boundaries. His extrication from the drab canons of Hibbing becomes as inevitable as the sunrise.
The running narrative by the present-day Dylan lends an autobiographical sense to the documentary. What is revealed is not just the events, but also how he felt about those tumultuous years, a viewpoint available only now that he feels comfortable openly reflecting on these experiences.
Viewers may find the scenes of Dylan in his post-acoustic concerts with The Band a little drawn out, and some of these performances do seem dreadful. The audiences clearly thought so, and perhaps that is the way the filmmaker thought you might react. This is what Dylan eventually became, right before his motorcycle accident. You are left to decide for yourself whether, at that point in time, he had descended from his best work.