Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, a pixyish troubador, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It's the period when Dylan is shifting from acoustic to electric, a transition that not all fans, including Baez, applaud. From the opening sequence of Dylan holding up words to the soundtra... (Full plot summary below)
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Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, a pixyish troubador, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It's the period when Dylan is shifting from acoustic to electric, a transition that not all fans, including Baez, applaud. From the opening sequence of Dylan holding up words to the soundtrack's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," Dylan is playful and enigmatic.
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| Film ThreatChris ParcellinGreat stuff for Dylan fans or anyone interested in a street level look at a pop culture icon. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe music is great, and the film would be memorable for its goofy, syncopated opening sequence alone. |
| CineVueChristopher MachellThe total effect of these sequences is the feeling of hanging out with Dylan and his entourage. This is perhaps Don’t Look Back‘s greatest trick – convincing its audience that the Dylan we see here is anything other than a column of air: elusive, shifting and perpetually enigmatic. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinDon't Look Back is a spellbinding portrayal of a gifted artist at the peak of his creative brilliance. |
| San Francisco ExaminerCraig MarineEasily one of the best documentaries on any subject ever made. It is also one of the most cinematically influential. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonPennebaker has fashioned a relentlessly honest, brilliantly edited documentary permeated with the troubador-poet's music. |
| Slant MagazineCarson LundEven 48 years after its release, and well into Dylan’s current phase of relative transparency, D.A. Pennebaker’s Dont Look Back retains something of a forbidden quality, a feeling that we shouldn’t be privy to the things it shows us. |
| NetflixJames RocchiBob Dylan documentary still thrills in this restored DVD. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceDylan courses through like loose mercury, a capricious nightmare, inscrutable jester, brilliant artist |
| USA TodayMike ClarkAs fascinating as it is to peek in and eavesdrop on what appears to be an authentic Bob Dylan, Dont Look Back captures something that’s perhaps even more indicative of the songwriter’s nature: Dylan in transition. |
