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 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (DVD)
 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (DVD) ... October, 2005 at Paramount Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Full Screen, PAL / Spawning both politically charged folk ballads that came to embody the very spirit of the turbulent 1960s ('The Times They are a-Changin') and sprawling, stream-of-consciousness litanies that irrevocably changed the face of rock music ('Like a Rolling Stone'), the years between 1961-1966 were inarguably the most artistically fertile for legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. Director Martin Scorsese who had previously worked with Dylan on the Band's farewell concert film THE LAST WALTZ (1978) crafts an unprecedented exploration of the musician's creative process during this crucial five-year period with the historical PBS documentary event NO DIRECTION HOME. Part of PBS's AMERICAN MASTERS series, the film is the first ever film biography of the enigmatic, near-reclusive Dylan, who grants Scorsese his first full-length interview in 20 years for a startlingly intimate and endlessly revealing portrait of a true American icon. Bookended by his early days in the legendary Greenwich Village folk scene and the 1966 motorcycle accident that nearly claimed his life, Dylan's exclusive interview is supplemented with a wealth of archival footage that includes personal home movies from his childhood in Minnesota; unreleased interviews with colleagues Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Maria Muldaur; and rare live performances of classics like 'Blowin' in the Wind' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man.' In addition, the Bob Dylan Archives opens its extensive film, tape, and stills collection for never-before-seen concert and television appearances (including the infamous 'electric' set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival), outtakes from D.A. Pennebaker's acclaimed 1967 documentary DON'T LOOK BACK, and more. The result is a richly visual counterpart to Dylan's best-selling memoir CHRONICLES: VOLUME 1 that stands as a cinematic testament to the life and work of one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century.Newest Review: ... of the people that knew him from that era, such as Joan Baez, Suze Rotolo and Allen Ginsberg. They each provide an ... more ... interesting take on his life and the man he was, often telling of different sides of his character and providing often conflicting opions and nuances about certain events, which allows the viewer to devlop a better picture of the events.
Much of the information of his early life will be nuggets that have been known for years by hardcore Dylan fans, but some of the glimses and looks at his life by those who knew him best provide a more detailed insight than that which was already known. The way in which it is portrayed, with t...more |
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan [DVD] [2005]
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (DVD): Make Sure You Remember Your Direction Home, So That You Can ... (558 words)
by - written on 03/02/09 (Very useful, 81 readings)
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As you may have seen from some of my other reviews, i am a huge fan of Bob Dylan's work, and as such this is the film for someone like me, but then even if you are just getting into him, or simply want to find out about the sixties and how his career started then take a look at this. The film documents Dylan's rise from student to rock icon, beginning in the 1950s and continuing up until his motorcycle accident in 1966, which may seem quite a short period of time, but in the life of Bob Dylan, this is simply one small part of it. The story of this part fo his early career is told through his music, along with others, and interviews with both Dylan himself and ... Read the complete review
Bob Dylan - No Direction Home (634 words)
by - written on 14/08/08 (Very useful, 27 readings)
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Martin Scorsese's brilliant documentary tracing the progression of Bob Dylan from endearingly awkward Duluth teenager to other-worldly, speed-fried Icon is as stunning a piece of work as any of the director's classics, and leagues above most of his output from the preceding decade. Utilising a wealth of revelatory, rarely-seen footage and interview material, No Direction Home is, for the first half at least, as much about America in the pause-for-breath moment between the beat writers of the 1950s and the counter-culture student movements of the mid-to-late 1960s as it is about the life and work of Robert Zimmerman. It is - clichéd as it sounds - a sweeping, ... Read the complete review
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (DVD): A LEGEND IN HIS OWN TIME. (946 words)
by - written on 09/03/06 (Very useful, 107 readings)
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When I bought this DVD from Amazon at the modest price of 14.99, I thought that it would simply be a compilation of historical songs of Dylan. However, having watched it, I found that what it presented was a journey of discovery that goes back to the late 50's, and shows the music that was part and parcel of this great artists' background, and the influences that made the artist what he is today. Interestingly enough, the DVD was comparable to a series that I have been watching on the BBC about the roots of folk music in the UK, and was an interesting contrast, in that it covered the same timescale though from an American perspective. ... Read the complete review
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