DONT LOOK BACK
DA Pennebaker, USA, 1967
Wednesday 28 September 2005 11.05pm-12.35am
DA Pennebaker's landmark film is a revealing portrait of Bob Dylan and his entourage as they tour Britain in 1965, and features great performances of classic songs. DA Pennebaker: "What he saw was himself sort of naked"
DA PENNEBAKER Director Interview
"What he saw was himself sort of naked"
WATCH TRAILER
The original theatrical trailer from 1967
Dont Look Back
Info and clips from the Pennebaker/Hegedus website
Bob Dylan
Huge official site that includes rare live tracks
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Nick Fraser
Storyville Series Editor
I watch hundreds of documentaries every year but one of my enduring favourites is Dont Look Back. It's the first film to be made about many things - the 1960s in general, the moment at which popular culture jumped the acoustic guitar and went electric; and, above all, it offers a haunting insight into the prime of the former Robert Zimmerman.
If that's not enough, it shows you a Britain that by comparison to Mr Dylan seems to have entered a time-warp, remaining somewhere in the early 1950s. Dylan really does look like a Martian who's fetched up in the black-and-white world of the Picture Post.
Watch out for marvellous moments showing Joan Baez and Dylan together. Her voice, one tends to forget these days, is a miracle - and another miracle is that the two of them were ever an item.
