Bob Dylan is in the ether a lot these days... I just noticed that D.A. Pennebaker's documentary Don't Look Back is available on iTunes. The trailer, which is also in the film, is iconic. It was Dylan's idea and Allen Ginsberg is in the background:
Don't Look Back is excellent, but often infuriating. Dylan is insufferable as he smugly roams England in the mid-60s. But you also see him in his Highway 61 Revisited and Bringing It All Back Home heyday, so the film was compelling (at least to me).
One of (apparently) several homages to the scene above:
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Bob Dylan was so cruel and indifferent to Joan Baez in that documentary. It was just....painful to watch. You might want to check out the Martin Scorcese documentary about Dylan that came out a couple of years ago. Joan Baez was interviewed (among many others), and she didn't hold anything back. It was great.
I've been meaning to check out the Scorcese doc but haven't yet - you are the 2nd or 3rd person to recommend it so I'll definitely put it on the queue!
Yeah, Dylan is awful in the documentary; so while I think the documentary is great, it makes me lose respect for Dylan...
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