My
first impression:
Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back – 65 Tour Deluxe Edition
“Four decades ago, innovative filmmaker D.A.
Pennebaker chronicled the ’65 tour of 23-year-old American
rock poet named Bob Dylan. This influential and intimate film, Dont
Look Back, originally released in 1967, became the gold
standard for music documentaries and helped to define the genre. Now,
Docurama®
commemorates this landmark achievement with the ultimate version on
DVD -- Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back – 65 Tour Deluxe Edition.
The 2-disc collector’s set, highlighted by a digital transfer
of the original film, also features Pennebaker’s brand new,
hour long film, Bob
Dylan 65 Revisited, the original 1968 companion book to
the film and more. More than just a concert film, this
ground-breaking documentary is a window into the spirit of the ‘60s,
and one of the poet-musicians whose words and songs defined a
generation. On February 27, Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back – 65 Tour
Deluxe Edition will be available for the collectible price of $49.95
SRP.
“One of the ten greatest rock films of all time”
- Rolling Stone
A must have for every Dylan fan, classic rock
music collector and cinematography guru, Bob Dylan: Don't Look
Back – 65 Tour Deluxe Edition features the meticulously
digitally remastered original feature film, as well as Bob
Dylan 65 Revisited, Pennebaker’s newly edited feature
culled from countless hours of never-before-seen archival footage
shot during the tour through England, providing a fresh “fly on
the wall” perspective of the young musician on the road and on
the rise. The definitive set also contains two photo-laden books –
a rare, collectible reproduction of the 168-page companion Dont
Look Back book and a “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
flip book, providing a frame-by-frame look at what many consider to
be the very first music video.“
Received my review copy in the mail today – thanks, Taylor! --, and obviously immediately turned to the new footage, Bob Dylan 65 Revisited.
My
first impression:
The new feature is very much a Volume 2 of Don't Look Back – although definitely a work in its own right, it shows a similar approach in assembling pieces from hours of footage to a convincing collage. Once again, we are treated to a “patchwork” of Dylan performances, press conferences, hotel room scenes, interactions with fans and the press, and Bob and his entourage taking in the strange wonders of Great Britain...
Arranged chronologically and with a decided emphasis on Bob's songs/performances, we get treated to more hotel room jam sessions – Bob Dylan and Joan Baez performing “Wild Mountain Thyme” (later revived at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival and during the 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue) – mistitled “Purple Heather” in the DVD menu – and old “chestnuts” like “Remember Me (When The Candlelights Are Gleaming)” (Bob) or “What A Friend I Have In Jesus” (Joan), more concert/soundcheck footage like “Don't Think Twice, It's All Right”, “To Ramona”, “It Ain't Me, Babe”, “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”, “It's All Over Now, Baby Blue”. “It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding”, “If You Gotta Go, Go Now”, etc....
The documentary closes with yet another stab at what many consider the “first music video clip” of all times – Bob Dylan's “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (this time, on a rooftop).
All in all, a fitting addendum and worthy companion to the original film – although a sense of “deja vu” persists (“didn't I see this before?”) -- but if this was D. A. Pennebaker's intention, he certainly succeeded!
Manfred Helfert,
English Books and more
Mainz, Germany
Feb
22, 2007
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Produced by NEWVIDEO and distributed through DOCURAMA.
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