| Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back | 
| Director: D.a. Pennebaker
Actors: Bob Dylan, Albert Grossman, Bob Neuwirth, Joan Baez, Alan Price
Studio: Docurama
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (105 reviews)
Sales Rank: 34058
Format: Black & White, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 96 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0767022165
UPC: 767685944738
EAN: 9780767022163
ASIN: B000035P7X
Release Date: January 4, 2000
Theatrical Release Date: May 17, 1967
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 the best one April 5, 2008
If you have to bye only one Bob Dylan DVD, please choose DON'T LOOK BACK DeLUXE EDITION,simply because it's wonderful. You can see an artist in his best performance who tries not to look cool because he is the quintessece of cool. Dylan in the 60's is the wish of any artist to be......... an unforgetable DVD, from the GREATEST AMERICAN ARTIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY..........
Dylan being Dylan January 9, 2008
This gives you a different view into Dylan showing both the positive and negative. Honest.
 OK film let down by Dylan playing up to the camera and terrible sound and picture quality December 25, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
"Don't Look Back" is OK but not the masterpiece many other reviews would lead you to believe. Sound and picture quality are very poor, concert performances are attenuated (oh so frustrating!), and the verbal jousting of Dylan with reporters and fans becomes tiresome especially when we can see it's obviously just a put-on for the cameras.
Still it does capture some of the energy of Dylan at this time - just before he went electric - and the seediness of the touring life.
Long time fan September 29, 2007
As usual Bob Dylan shines. The creativity of the young Dylan still is amazing to this day.
Archival Treasure July 15, 2007
Bob Dylan often was in a shroud of mystery. That's why J. Robert Van Dyke's documentary, `Don't Look Back' is so valuable. Caught in the throes of his tour in England, the 1967 copyright only gives the release date of this fun and illuminating look at the great singer/songwriter/musician. Taking from his newly released album, `Bringing It All Back Home,' the footage undoubtedly came from 1965 when he controversially went electric and invented the folk-rock hybrid. The feel of the black and white film sometimes seems shaky and impromptu, and scenes transition at times like a home movie. Yet, the editing is the real gig, capturing some essential moments in the life of Dylan and his entourage at a consequential time in his career.
The highlights are many. There are times for him to "meet the press". What is so revealing is how he turns the tables on one British reporter and a 'Time' correspondent later. When a British reporter asks Bob, "What is your attitude about life?" He's put off by the ubiquitous question; so when he asks the reporter the same question, the reporter says he can't answer the question in two minutes. Dylan responds, "How do you expect me to?" There are other great moments. Joan Baez can be the real ham sometimes, but when she sings in their room her voice resonates beautifully. Similarly, we get a brief, intimate performance by Donovan who visits Dylan. There are also some fine behind-the-scenes action. It becomes heated when the reporters come to interview Dylan, and one man tells his manager, Alan Grossman, to get out. Another scene shows him making interesting negotiations for a couple of Dylan's performing nights in London. Of course, the whole affair is worth the price of admission to be able to see and hear the "Bard of Hibbing" onstage doing numbers like "It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll". The whole film starts with a bare-bones video of "Subterreanean Homesick Blues," with Dylan changing display cards with his lyrics before the Beatles put theirs on `Sgt. Pepper'.
Although not as polished as Scorsese's film, 'No Direction Home,' it is essential. The real comparison is not with Scorsese's work, but a comparison of this film with what it would be like to have gone without it. (I discovered this movie from `Rolling Stone,' as a list-topper from their "Best Films of Rock `N Roll".)
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