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Director:
Bob Dylan
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An interesting mess more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Bob Dylan ... Himself
Richard Manuel ... Himself

Robbie Robertson ... Himself
Rick Danko ... Himself
Garth Hudson ... Himself

John Lennon ... Himself

Johnny Cash ... Himself
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Additional Details

Runtime:
54 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Not Rated

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4 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
An interesting mess, 14 February 2001
4/10
Author: austex23 from Austin, Texas

Absolutely for fans only, this is a documentary of a Dylan tour made by a camera held in a very shaky hand. Eat the Document would make a good, but probably unwatchable, triple feature with Neil Young's Journey Through the Past and The Stones' Cocksucker Blues, a sixties triptych painted on broken windowpanes after a night of very bad drugs. Dylan's attempt at deconstructing or subverting or whatever he was trying to do to his own myth here says a lot about the era and leaves the artist as enigmatic as he ever has been, with the usual alternation between sublime poetry and clunking misfires. Still, there are some fine moments -- the droning duet with Johnny Cash, as two generations of bad boys create an otherworldly disharmony, the glimpses of the Band at the peak of their magic, the faces of the young Brits waiting in line for the shows, desperate to be at a scene they were determined not to dig. The tape I saw was followed by a harrowing ten minute outtake of Dylan and John Lennon riding in the back of a limo, the camera focused unflinching (and often unfocused) on them as they mumble their way through a thick purple haze -- sure proof that no one is as clever as he thinks he is on drugs.

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