Don't Look Back

The Times They Are a-Changin’, a portrait of Bob Dylan.

music documentary
TH 06.06.2013 22:30

Director D.A. Pennebaker is represented twice in the Out Loud! film programme. From Jimi Hendrix and Ravi Shankar (in Monterey Pop) we now move on to Bob Dylan. Pennebaker’s ‘fly-on-the-wall’ portrait is both a classic rock documentary and an essential artefact of 20th-century popular culture. Pennebaker zooms in on the phenomenon of Dylan during a British tour in 1965: a strange extraterrestrial visitor in the context of mid-60s England. The result is an enlightening and engaging portrait capturing the singer-songwriter on the eve of his transformation from folk prophet to groundbreaking rocker.

D.A. Pennebaker, US, 1967, 96’
© Pennebaker Hegedus Films

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