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Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back

Original title: Dont Look Back
  • 19671967
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 36m
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Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967)
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Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.
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  • Director
    • D.A. Pennebaker
  • Writer
    • D.A. Pennebaker
  • Stars
    • Bob Dylan
    • Albert Grossman
    • Bob Neuwirth
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  • Director
    • D.A. Pennebaker
  • Writer
    • D.A. Pennebaker
  • Stars
    • Bob Dylan
    • Albert Grossman
    • Bob Neuwirth
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    • 52User reviews
    • 69Critic reviews
    • 84Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 2 nominations

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    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    • Selfas Self
    Albert Grossman
    Albert Grossman
    • Selfas Self
    Bob Neuwirth
    Bob Neuwirth
    • Selfas Self
    Joan Baez
    Joan Baez
    • Selfas Self
    Alan Price
    Alan Price
    • Selfas Self
    Tito Burns
    Tito Burns
    • Selfas Self
    Donovan
    Donovan
    • Selfas Self
    Derroll Adams
    • Selfas Self
    Jones Alk
    • Selfas Self
    Howard Alk
    • Selfas Self
    Chris Ellis
    • Selfas Self
    • (uncredited)
    Terry Ellis
    Terry Ellis
    • Self - science studentas Self - science student
    • (uncredited)
    Marianne Faithfull
    Marianne Faithfull
    • Selfas Self
    • (uncredited)
    Allen Ginsberg
    Allen Ginsberg
    • Selfas Self
    • (uncredited)
    John Mayall
    John Mayall
    • Selfas Self
    • (uncredited)
    Brian Pendleton
    Brian Pendleton
    • Selfas Self
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • D.A. Pennebaker
    • Writer
      • D.A. Pennebaker
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    • Trivia
      The scene where Donovan visits Dylan in his hotel was generally viewed as Dylan putting the young singer-songwriter in his place when he grabs the guitar and performs "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." But a 2015 Criterion Collection remaster, with improved sound, revealed that Donovan actually requested Dylan play that song for him. That gave the entire scene a new meaning and revealed Dylan and Donovan as more friends than rivals.
    • Quotes

      Albert Grossman: They've started calling you an anarchist.

      Bob Dylan: Who?

      Albert Grossman: The papers. That's the word now.

      Bob Dylan: Anarchist?

      Albert Grossman: Right. Yeah.

      Bob Dylan: The newspaper's say I'm an anarchist?

      Albert Grossman: Two or three. Just because you don't offer any solutions.

      Bob Dylan: You're kidding!

      Albert Grossman: Of course.

      Bob Dylan: Anarchist? Huh? Give me a cigarette. Give the anarchist a cigarette. Anarchist? A singer such as I.

    • Connections
      Featured in Precious Images (1986)
    • Soundtracks
      Subterranean Homesick Blues
      (uncredited)

      Written by Bob Dylan

      Performed by Bob Dylan

    User reviews52

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    Brave portrait
    The documentary starts off well enough, Bob's famous alley video of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in which beat poet Allen Ginsberg is seen gesticulating in the background. Then we see Bob and company arriving at Heathrow airport in London, prophetically singing "London Bridges falling Down" as they walk in. During this scene we see the first contradiction of the movie's main character. A passer-by who lights one of Bob's smokes asks him about what is different about him this tour, why is he so popular this time around in England. Bob brushes it off by indicating that he has no idea he is so popular and sort of indicating that he does not keep up with those mundane things. He then spends a lot of time in the film doing exactly that, stopping conversation to ask where he is placed in the charts and in reading his press.

    It's hard to know how to take Bob Dylan in this documentary. Many of the interviews shown are ones given on the fly just before he goes on stage, and a certain amount of pre-show jitters and nervous reaction is probably to be expected. I would not want to interview a musician just before they are set to perform on strange stages in a foreign country. His interviews come across as a person who has been doing way too much of what we, in fact, see Bob doing all through the film, reading his own press clippings and being very impressed with what he finds. He comes across as a person who thinks he understands all, but is too deep to be understood in turn. So deep, in fact, that mere mortal reporters are not even worth taking the time to explain things to. He wastes the reporter's and the film audience's time playing verbal games, quibbling over choics of words in questions and in general coming across as far more self-important than he really is. This can be seen as anti-establishment, it can also be seen as being a plain old pain in the butt just because you can, to entertain your buddies.

    Donovan is there, and is a presence from the start of the film. Bob is very aware of him, has been told that Donovan plays better than he does. Donovan was the British version of Bob and, at times, sold better than Bob did. They finally meet and trade songs, Bob sarcastically choosing to sing "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" right at Donovan. Joan Baez is there for a portion of the movie, beautiful and ignored by Bob and his entourage. Albert Grossman comes across as a bull in a China shop in England where the genteel older gentlemen who still handled promotion were absolutely no match for Grossman's New York tough guy ways. We see him on the phones, milking every last dollar he can from promoters.

    Highly recommended documentary. For what it is worth, besides his music, this is about as close as anyone ever got to Bob Dylan. The film makers were wise in not asking any questions or directing anything, but just in letting Bob talk.
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    • Release date
      • February 24, 1968 (Sweden)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Artistic License Films
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Don't Look Back
    • Filming locations
      • London, Greater London, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Leacock-Pennebaker
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $27,158
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 36 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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