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Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back
The iconographic rockumentary, filmed before rock musicians had handlers.
This peek inside the head of a very young Bob Dylan is disturbing
and exhilarating. It’s clear Dylan has a rare gift for channeling sublime
lyrics straight from the source; it is equally clear the divine messenger
was a jerk. I kept thinking of the undeserving Mozart in Amadeus. Rough,
tattered, blazing like a million suns, a rocket lifting off, this is an unforgettable
portrait of a young artist. And the model for every rock bio since.
By D.A. Pennebaker
1967, 96 min.
Available from Amazon
Rent from Netflix
Bob Dylan pounds on a typewriter in
a hotel room writing lyrics, while his
girlfriend Joan Baez sings sitting behind
him (above). At a civil rights rally in the
US south Dylan sings folks songs. He
eventually stars on stage.
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