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List Price: $29.95 | | Label: New Video Group
Salesrank: 8124
Released: February 27, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Black & White Color DVD NTSC Subtitled | |
Editorial Review:
BOB DYLAN: DONT LOOK BACK--65 TOUR DELUXE EDITION is the ultimate look at Bob Dylan's concert tour of England in the spring of 1965--one of the most intimate profiles of an artist ever put to film. This definitive set includes the remastered classic film by D.A. Pennebaker, a brand-new, hour-long look at Dylan, and the original 168-page companion book to the film. More than just a concert film, DONT LOOK BACK is a window into the spirit of the 60s, and one of the poet-musicians whose words and songs defined it.
DISC 1: BOB DYLAN DONT LOOK BACK
This digitally-remastered version of the cinema verite classic follows Dylan on his extraordinary 1965 concert tour of England--his last as an acoustic performer. With unobtrusive equipment and rare access to Dylan, legendary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker achieved an unprecedented, fly-on-the-wall glimpse of one of music's most influential figures--and redefined filmmaking along the way.
DISC 2: BOB DYLAN 65 REVISITED
Forty years after the release of DONT LOOK BACK, D.A. Pennebaker has created this new work culled from over 20 hours of never-before-seen rare footage from his personal archive of film negatives. Raw and unassuming, '65 REVISITED provides a fresh perspective of the young Dylan on the road during his 1965 English tour.
BONUS - DONT LOOK BACK COMPANION BOOK & FLIPBOOK
Originally published in 1968, the 168-page companion book features a complete transcription of the film, over 200 photos, and a new forward by D.A. Pennebaker. The collectible Subterranean Homesick Blues flipbook provides a frame-by-frame look at the film's famed 'cue-card' sequence, considered by many to be the first contemporary music video.
DVD Features Include:
Five Additional Uncut Audio Tracks; Two Commentaries by D.A. Pennebaker and tour road manager Bob Neuwirth; Alternate Version of the Subterranean Homesick Blues Cue Card Sequence; Original Theatrical Trailer; D.A. Pennebaker Filmography; Bob Dylan Discography; Cast and Crew Biographies
Description of Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back (1965 Tour Deluxe Edition):
Both a classic documentary and a vital pop-cultural artifact, D.A. Pennebaker's portrait of Bob Dylan captures the seminal singer-songwriter on the cusp of his transformation from folk prophet to rock trendsetter. Shot during Dylan's 1965 British concert tour, Don't Look Back employs an edgy vérité style that was, and is, a snug fit with the artist's own consciously rough-hewn persona. Its handheld black-and-white images and often-gritty London backdrops suggest cinematic extensions of the archetypal monochrome portraits that graced Dylan's career-making early-'60s album jackets.
Pennebaker's access to the legendarily private troubadour enables us to witness Dylan's shifting moods as he performs, relaxes with his entourage (including then lover Joan Baez, road manager Bob Neuwirth, and poker-faced manager Albert Grossman), and jousts with other musicians (notably Animals alumnus Alan Price and Scottish folksinger Donovan), fans, and press. It's a measurement of the filmmaker's acuity that the conversations are often as gripping as Dylan's solo performances. Grossman's machinations with British promoters, Baez's hip serenity, a grizzled British journalist's surrender to the fact of Dylan's artistry, and the artist's own taunting dismissal of a clueless sycophant are all absorbing.
With the exception of the studio recording of "Subterranean Homesick Blues," the live performances (including five newly restored, complete audio tracks excised from the original film but included on the DVD version) are constrained by crude audio gear. Their urgency, however, is timeless, as is Pennebaker's film, a legitimate cornerstone for any serious rock video collection. --Sam Sutherland
Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back (1965 Tour Deluxe Edition) Reviews:
The 2nd DVD is.... 
2009-10-21 - ...worth the price of the set. Believe me, you will get as much enjoyment out of the performances on the 2nd DVD that you did the movie on the first.
Fabulous
2009-06-19 - This is the young Bob Dylan on a three week concert tour of England in 1965. It is a tour de force of cinema verite. It is fascinating to watch a young artist of extraordinary talent being asked questions about the meaning of his music.
Dylan's incredulous manner in response is funny, ironic, and at times very sarcastic; especially with the totally "out of it" reporter from Time Magazine. The interview is one of the subjects of a very informative commentary by director and documentary genius D.A. Pennebaker and Bob Neuwirth, the tour manager.
His treatment of his young fans is a sweet counterpoint to his sarcastic treatment of the press. He is kind and very solicitous of a gaggle of young girls he has up to his room before a performance.
An added pleasure is the snatches of the beautiful voice of Joan Baez who accompanied him on the tour. Her offstage voice is as beautiful and radiant as onstage; strong and pure.
The deluxe edition has full tracks sung by Dylan while on the tour, including It Ain't Me Babe, It's All Over Now Baby Blue, Love Minus Zero/No Limit, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, and To Ramonna. They are great.
This a "must see" for Dylan fans. See it before you so "No Direction Home", a brilliant follow-up by Martin Scorsese about a subsequent much more controversial English Dylan concert tour when Dylan had switched from acoustic to electric.
The Early Years
2009-06-18 - I had a hard time one summer. My parents had moved out East and I wasn't interested in spending the summer away from my college buddies. I was able to live with my uncle in Cedar Rapids but I really didn't know anyone else there and it was about 100 miles away from my buddies (and had no car). It was really a depressing time but I found my emotional outlet that summer of '72 in Bob Dylan. I had all his first 5 albums and I kept playing them all summer long. Cedar Rapids didn't have any meaning for me but Life was sure expanding its' meaning through the brilliant insight of Dylan. I went back to college that Fall and my music playlist greatly expanded. In time my interest in music expanded to where Dylan was just a part time thing. Years later my wife, knowing my love for the music of Bob Dylan bought me "Planet Waves". I only played it once; his singing sounded so awful I couldn't stand it. Things picked up later, around the time of "Hurricane", and I enjoy a lot of the latter Dylan as well. However, I was always so grateful for his presence and his insight that lousy summer of '72.
I rented "Don't Look Back" with a rather casual interest recently. I wasn't in a big hurry to watch it since my evenings were so full. However, when I finally sat down to view it, I relived all the good that he put into that lonely Summer. I mentally re-enacted every mood and insight that I had had before as I traveled down a memory lane of protests, noble causes, and revelations. For the Dylan purists, all of this preceeds Dylan's discovery of the electric guitar. It is a movie put together from his 1964 British Tour. The music is great but the real enjoyment I took from the film was Dylan himself. This movie candidly shows him in a variety of moods and settings. Some of the scenes were simply outstanding. I think my favorite was an extended scene where he and a cohort were interviewing a rather clumsy British interviewer. It may sound uninteresting but I enjoyed Dylan's effort to try and figure out just what made this guy tick. He was having fun and the rest of us were as well.
I rented this DVD. I will certainly be purchasing my own copy. It's worth watching again and again...especially if I ever get stuck in Cedar Rapids.
boring 
2009-06-05 - i just saw this on tv tonight and i found it very boring.the sound wasnt very good either and watching dylan with acoustic guitar and occasional harmonica is a bore itself.i was dying to hear some drums and electric guitar and bass in this music.but even that wouldnt have mattered since dylans voice makes your ears bleed.they shouldnt call this a rock documentary they should call it a folk documentary.wish they had gone on tour and filmed the beatles 65 tour instead of dylan.
A truer portrait of Bob
2008-12-29 - The original version of DLB was and still is a groundbreaking documentary of a pivotal moment in the career of Bob Dylan, and rock music in general, but it is less about the music than it is about the drama and pettiness that Dylan was involved in behind the scenes. The new 65 Revisited disc shows more of the softer side of Bob, particularly towards his adoring British fans, and also presents the song performances in their full, unedited forms. "To Ramona" in Sheffield and "It Ain't Me Babe" in Manchester are absolutely wonderful! I would highly recommend this new expanded version of DLB, even if you already own a copy of the old version. The special packaging, books and postcards included are a nice bonus.
