Johanna
I've seen Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home: Bob Dylan three times now -- once at the '05 Toronto Film Festival, twice on DVD. Why is it, then, that I'm seriously contemplating going to see it again as the final showing in the Aero's "Mods & Rockers" series on Sunday night (8.27)? I've thought it over, and all I can figure is that it feels immensely cool to soak in the specialness of that early-to-mid '60s Dylan thing, which isn't "better" than the bolt around the current Dylan album or the late '90s incarnation or the one that happened in the mid '70s when he sang "Hurricane." I only know that the ghost of electricity howled in the bones of her face only once, and then it very gradually faded over time.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 26, 2006 at 3:21 PM
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jackkerouac
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I know what you mean, Jeff. I've been on a real Dylan jag lately, listening to all his CD's, reading both 'Chronicles' by Dylan and 'Like A Rolling Stone: Dylan At The Crossroads' by Grael Marcus, and watching over and over 'No Direction Home'. It really is one of the best documentary's of it's kind ever put together. Don't, however, overlook Dylan's latest work. Since the late 90's, beginning with 'Trouble in Mind' followed by 'Love and Theft' and now 'Modern Times', he is producing work that rivals anything he's done in the past. Whatever muse abandoned him in mid-career has returned with a vengeance. People who say they 'don't get' Dylan just aren't listening close enough.
Posted by jackkerouac
at August 26, 2006 6:06 PM
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Patrick
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Perhaps because you're totally nuts and/or it's
the only decent Scorsese film in about a decade!
Posted by Patrick
at August 26, 2006 7:25 PM
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jackkerouac
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Well, I couldn't agree with you more, Patrick, about Scorceses' films, that is.
Posted by jackkerouac
at August 26, 2006 8:43 PM
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corey3rd
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The film is worth seeing soley for D.A. Pennebaker's extra footage from Eat the Document.
It's hard for me to call this a real Marty film since he didn't shoot a frame of footage. He just oversaw the editing of the existing elements. It's just a damn shame that D.A. wasn't given a real credit in the film like producer or co-director since it's his work that holds it together. The only thing Marty did was that hideous voice over reading.
Posted by corey3rd
at August 27, 2006 5:56 AM