The documentary featured the musicians alan price who had just left the animals, bob dylan and joan baez. Dont look back 1967 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Dont look back is a fascinating exercise in selfrevelation carried out by bob dylan and friends. May 08, 2012 guarda bob dylan dont look back parte naq evius su dailymotion. Pennebaker that covers bob dylans 1965 concert tour in england in 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the united states national film registry by the library of congress as being deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Did we actually once take this twirp as our folk god. Pennebakers don t look back follows bob dylan on his 1965 tour of britain.
You dont ever research, because you want to have everything come to you in a life. With bob dylan, albert grossman, bob neuwirth, joan baez. Pennebakers dont look back follows four weeks of bob dylans solo acoustic tour across england in 1965. Mar 20, 2007 bob dylan 65 revisited is billed as outtakes from dont look back, but this is a 60minute film in its own right. Dont look back, bob dylan and the invention of the rockumentary da pennebaker s landmark film is being celebrated with its own exhibition, and more than 50 years on, it still sets the standard. May 17, 2016 dont look back, bob dylan and the invention of the rockumentary da pennebakers landmark film is being celebrated with its own exhibition, and more than 50 years on, it still sets the standard. Aug 10, 2019 dont look back da pennebakers classic film about bob dylans 1965 tour of britain is an intimate portrait of the artist as a quite young and formidably intelligent man. Don t look back was real, you saw the bob i love, not a second of feeling he was putting on an act. This is an impressive criterion collection bluray release with an excellent 4k restoration, a number of high quality supplemental features, and a highquality booklet. Oct, 2016 bob dylans dont look back gets deluxe treatment with new bluray set new nobel prize winner bob dylans classic dont look back documentary is bound for a new bluray.
Baby blue, dont look back is a radically conceived portrait of an american icon that has influenced decades of. I scribbled down these observations as i watched the newly restored print of dont look back, the 1967 documentary about dylan s 1965 concert tour. Dont look back he filmed everyone from dylan and bowie to bill clinton, jimi hendrix to germaine greer most of all, d. Review of dont look back, a documentary directed by d. The audio interview with dylan was recorded in 2000 but was placed over footage from the movie as the legend talks about how the production started, his thoughts on the. Don t look back is an excellent music documentary on bob dylan s london tour was in the spring of 1965. Bob dylan is captured onscreen as he never would be again in this groundbreaking film from d. Dont look back, bob dylan and the invention of the rockumentary da pennebakers landmark film is being celebrated with its own exhibition, and more than 50 years on, it still sets the standard. Apart from the scene with the lord mayors wife and sons that tim robbins lifted for bob roberts and dylans famous harangue of the reporter from time magazine, though, i didnt know what to expect. Dont look back 1967 bob dylan in dont look back 1967. Joan baez dont think twice, its all right bob dylan cover duration. It is also a remarkable historical record of parts of london in the 1960s. Pennebakers landmark 1967 bob dylan documentary, dont look back, paved the road for music documentaries at a time when, as the filmmaker puts it, most documentaries were political or. Indeed, those who consider dylan a lone, ethical figure standing up against the phonies will discover, after seeing this film, that they have lost their hero.
Bissell music performed by bob dylan, joan baez, donovan, alan price produced by john court and albert grossman. This influential film which begins with a rudimentary music video for. When it first appeared in 1967, dont look back was an eyeopening look at the tumultuous life of bob dylan circa 1965. Not only is this film still illuminating of an artist, but. Revisiting an album, a film, or an event on its anniversary. I scribbled down these observations as i watched the newly restored print of don t look back, the 1967 documentary about dylan s 1965 concert tour. At the time, no one could have known how fortuitous pennebakers. Sep 12, 2015 this is a compilation of all the onstage and behindthescenes performances from the documentary dont look back 1967 the criterion collection now sells an. Dylan would later again use dont look back, this time in its imperative form, in the song pressing on, from the 1980 album. Bob dylan dont look back parte 23 video dailymotion. The legendary documentarian finds dylan in england during his 1965 tour, which would be his last as an acoustic. The greatness of pennebakers film is dylans revelation of nonrevelation, the only rock n roll lie worth. He is bob all the time, never gives stupid answers to anyone.
Dont look back, a 1967 documentary about bob dylan. Pennebakers blackandwhite 1967 documentary film dont look back largely chronicles bob dylans tour of the u. Pennebaker, a brandnew, hourlong look at dylan, and the original 168page companion book to the film. Documentary covering bob dylan s 1965 tour of england, which. This is a compilation of all the onstage and behindthescenes performances from the documentary dont look back 1967 the criterion collection now sells an.
Pennebaker that covers bob dylans 1965 concert tour in england. Even if pennebakers film captures an authentic bob dylan, that artist was long gone by the film s release in 1967. Pennebaker and producers of criterions dvd release weigh in on restoring a classic. The film makers were wise in not asking any questions or directing anything, but just in letting bob talk. Dont look back is a 1967 american documentary film by d. It only grew in stature in later years, ranking as a classic examination of the world of popular music as it was lived in the 60s.
All of bob dylans performances from dont look back 1967. On the cusp of his incarnation as a rocknroll icon, dylan exhibits an eerie confidence and selfpossession on stage. This alan aldridge movie poster for the documentary film dont look back. Pennebaker monterey pop, the war room filmed bob dylan during a threeweek concert tour of england in the spring of 1965, he had no idea he was about to. Documentary covering bob dylan s 1965 tour of england, which includes appearances by joan baez and donovan. Dont look back, film realise par avec bob dylan, joan baez sorti en 1996.
May 08, 2012 guarda bob dylan dont look back parte 23 naq evius su dailymotion. Their urgency, however, is timeless, as is pennebakers film, a legitimate. All of bob dylans performances from dont look back. For what it is worth, besides his music, this is about as close as anyone ever got to bob dylan. Hates being questioned, as the questions are in the viewers mind,he says. Pennebakers blackandwhite 1967 documentary film dont look back largely chronicles bob dylan s tour of the u. Nov 27, 2015 inside criterions incredible restoration of dylan doc dont look back d. In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the united states national film registry by the library of congress as being deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
Dont look back, bob dylan and the invention of the. Bob dylan turns 79 today, but he was in his mid20s when he toured the uk in 1965 with documentarian d. Dont look back, bob dylan and the invention of the rockumentary. Nov 24, 2015 dylan on don t look back 2015 out of 4 nicely produced four minute interview with bob dylan that can be found on the criterion collections release of don t look back. Bob dylans dont look back documentary revamped for blu. Lots of great video of just what life is like on the road. Bob dylan, joan baez, bobby neuwrith, donovan distributor. It makes use of vibrant colors and contours to visually fuse the eccentric musicians bob dylan and joan baez as one depicting their romance as a general theme. One is dont look back and the other is one of outtakes from dont look back both with commentaries, that can be turned on or off. Pennebaker accompanied bob dylan to england to make a film about the singersongwriters british tour. And if they follow youdont look backlike dylan in the movies.
Featuring some of dylans most famous songs, including subterranean homesick blues, the times they are achangin, and its all over now, baby blue, dont look back is a radically conceived portrait of an american icon that has influenced decades of verite behindthescenes documentaries. In 2014, the british film institutes authoritative poll of movie industry experts ranked dont look back as one of the 10 best documentaries of all. Its handheld blackandwhite images and oftengritty london backdrops suggest cinematic extensions of the archetypal monochrome portraits that graced. What an immature, selfimportant, inflated, cruel, shallow little creature, lacking in empathy and contemptuous of anyone who was not himself or his lackey. Dont look back65 tour deluxe edition is the ultimate look at bob dylans concert tour of england in the spring of 1965one of the most intimate profiles of an artist ever put to film. This definitive set includes the remastered classic film by d. Already, however, he had begun to move toward folkrock, having just recorded and released his lp. Pennebakers 1967 dont look back, as the film takes over the big screen after an introduction by local singersongwriter jade blocker. Starring bob dylan, donovan, joan baez, alan price, albert grossman cinematography howard alk, jones alk, d. Dont look back 1967 starring bob dylan and joan baez on dvd and bluray. The film was shot during dylans 1965 british concert tour, dont look back employs an edgy verite style that was, and is, a snug fit with the artists own consciously roughhewn persona. From your source for information on documentary films, documentary films.
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