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Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back

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Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (1967)

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Reviews Counted: 15

Fresh: 15

Rotten:0

Average Rating: 8.3/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 32 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Synopsis: A raucous and intimate road movie of Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, DON'T LOOK BACK may be the most influential rock star documentary of all time. D.A. Pennebaker's trademark cinema verité approach, with its comprehensive... A raucous and intimate road movie of Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, DON'T LOOK BACK may be the most influential rock star documentary of all time. D.A. Pennebaker's trademark cinema verité approach, with its comprehensive perspective, captures the paradoxical Dylan in alternating moments of confrontational belligerence and contemplative repose, all within the framework of the pop culture hurricane of one of the most publicized concert tours of the mid-1960s. Mobbed by frenzied fans and stalked by confounded journalists and music critics unable to penetrate his carefully evasive yet antagonistic persona, Dylan takes refuge with Joan Baez, his folk contemporary, and Albert Grossman, his juggernaut manager. As the tour progresses, a pattern emerges from Dylan's modes of expression, offering a glimpse of what would come to be a constant in his career: his perpetual redefinition of himself. Displaying the enigmatic performer's roles as both folk artist heir apparent to the Woody Guthrie throne and electric guitar rock pioneer who turned the Beatles on to pot, DON'T LOOK BACK preserves not only Dylan's musical genius but his inimitable, vital, and profound defiance of definition. [More]

Starring: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Albert Grossman

Starring: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Albert Grossman

Director: D.A. Pennebaker

Director: D.A. Pennebaker
Producer: Albert Grossman, John Court

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DVD Info

 
 
 
 
Release:

Feb 27, 2007

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DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • (unspecified) - English
  • Subtitles - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentaries - D.A. Pennebaker - Director; Bob Neuwirth - Road Manager
  • Alternate Scene - "Subterranean Homesick Blues" Cue Card Sequence
  • Trailer - Theatrical Trailer

Reviews for Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back

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Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
01/31/08
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York
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The film's greatest incidental pleasures are images of a time when outlaw musicians wore suit jackets and the craggy Dylan was a delicate, unconventionally handsome young man.

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01/29/08
Maitland McDonagh
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The film that gives rockumentaries a good name.

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01/29/08
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D.A. Pennebaker's 1967 record of Bob Dylan's 1965 English tour is a genuine blast from the past, evoking the 60s like few other documents.

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01/29/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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An unforgettable all-access pass behind the scenes of Bob Dylan's '65 British tour, D.A. Pennebaker's landmark 1967 rock doc all but invented the form while presaging the music video.

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01/29/08
Jim Ridley
Village Voice
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Essential raw Dylan.

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10/05/06
Cole Smithey
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A fascinating document.

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02/11/06
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06/27/05
Emanuel Levy
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Whether one is a member of the under-30 set that regards Mr. Dylan as a spokesman, or one of the vanishing Americans over that age, this look into the life of a folk hero is likely to be both entertaining and occasionally disturbing.

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05/21/03
Donal J. Henahan
New York Times
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01/07/03
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Great stuff for Dylan fans or anyone interested in a street level look at a pop culture icon.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Chris Parcellin
Film Threat
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Bob Dylan documentary still thrills in this restored DVD.

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11/07/02
James Rocchi
Netflix
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Easily one of the best documentaries on any subject ever made. It is also one of the most cinematically influential.

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Craig Marine
San Francisco Examiner
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As Pennebaker's film clearly shows, one thing hasn't changed: Dylan only asks questions. You provide the answers.

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Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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D.A. Pennebaker's 1967 film, which invented the rock documentary, is a time capsule from the period when Sgt. Pepper was steamrolling Mr. Tambourine Man.

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Roger Ebert
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