Dont Look Back
- Bob Dylan Himself
- Albert Grossman Himself
- Bob Neuwirth Himself
- Joan Baez Herself
- Donovan Himself
- Allen Ginsberg Himself
Dont Look Back is a documentary by American director DA Pennebaker.
Content
The film shows the musician Bob Dylan on his UK tour in 1965. The 24 -year-old Dylan was at this time on a first peak of his career, his transition from acoustic to electric guitar was imminent. Dont Look Back provides an insight into the touring routine. Besides Dylan are his former girlfriend Joan Baez, his manager Albert Grossman, his tour manager Bob Neuwirth to see the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and the Scottish folk singer Donovan.
Dont Look Back shows few concert clips, but focuses much more on the time before and after performances, Dylan partially arrogant and belligerent dealing with journalists and fans as well as his rise in the British charts. His first meeting with the singer Donovan, who was then traded by the press as " British Bob Dylan " is to see.
Dont Look Back begins with the song Subterranean Homesick Blues and the accompanying video, in which stops Bob Dylan individual words of the text to put up posters in the camera. The famous sequence is regarded as a forerunner of music videos.
Background
Dont Look Back was premiered on 17 May 1967 at the Paradiso Theatre in San Francisco. In 1998 he was accepted into the National Film Registry.
Published in 2007, DA Pennebaker, the one-hour documentary 65 Revisited, which consists of footage that was not used for Dont Look Back. The title refers to the album Highway 61 Revisited.
Criticism
There was praise for the film of Newsweek ( " Endlessly fascinating ..."), Variety ("A relentlessly honest, brilliantly edited documentary ..."), Los Angeles Herald Examiner ( "Fantastic" ), The New Yorker, and many other but also how this rejection from the Cleveland Plain Dealer: " Should be buried ... this is a cheaper, sometimes dirty movie; if it even is a film ... It is certainly not for moviegoers, the wash and / or shave. "