No Direction Home. Dylan documentary

[Chills]

Dylan will be featured on pbs's American Masters series. part 1 is sept 26th and part 2 is the 27th.

BBC2 is showing the same thing in the UK on Monday/Tuesday 26/27 September.  "Martin Scorsese's documentary on Bob Dylan's early years becomes the first simultaneous broadcast between the globe's foremost public broadcasters".

Yay. Must remember to check this out.

http://www.iptv.org/program.cfm?ID=206178

[MMJ_fanatic]

That's right!  I plan to watch the PBS presentation as a preview to buying the dvd. Should be awesome!!!

[CC]

I just finished watching the 1st part. hot damn, that was awesome! it's so much more than just a dylan docu. packed with folk legends from the 60s and bob mentioned fred neil! thanks bob! [smiley=beatnik.gif]

[aMillionDreams]

I just finished watching the 1st part. hot damn, that was awesome! it's so much more than just a dylan docu. packed with folk legends from the 60s and bob mentioned fred neil! thanks bob! [smiley=beatnik.gif]

Have you read the Chronicles Vol. 1?  He talks about Fred Neil a great deal.  He's the guy who wrote 'Everybody's Talkin'', right?

I'm waiting for the bob dylan website to restock and I'm going to order the soundtrack, the dvd, a scrapbook, and a extra CD is some package deal.  Meantime, I'm dying to hear the soundtrack and see the movie.  I don't know how long I'll hold out.

[CC]

Have you read the Chronicles Vol. 1?  He talks about Fred Neil a great deal.  He's the guy who wrote 'Everybody's Talkin'', right?

no, haven't read that yet but gonna have to.
fred's indeed responsible for 'everybody's talkin'

[whothrewthecake]

my DVD is on order, so i just watched the first half tonight. PACKED with info. can't wait for tomorrow. what does everyone think so far?

[dragonboy]

Didn't know the DVD was out to buy yet!
Cool  :)

[marktwain]

1st part was excellent! I love all the performance footage - of Bob and everybody else. It really makes me wish I had been around to see Bob in the 60's.

I'm looking forward to tonight.

And about Chronicles - Sean Penn reads the Book on Tape, which I bet is pretty cool.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

if for no other reason than to watch Bob interviews, this is awesome.

[Jellyfish]

I can't believe how humble Bob has become...the 60 minutes interview and now these....years ago all he would give you was smart ass answers to questions.

[Chills]

It's on. Part two!! Right now!!!

[fitzcarraldo]

Yeah, enjoyed it very much. So much going on in it. Forgot who the Irish guy was, every time they cut to him he has another beer.  :) And the comments from the Manchester audience was fun to see. Part two tonight, bring it. Turn it up!!!

[whothrewthecake]

i really loved when bob said "those women brought out the poet in me" and then stared suggestively into the camera. i peed myself.  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
so good.

[Jellyfish]

i really loved when bob said "those women brought out the poet in me" and then stared suggestively into the camera. i peed myself.  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
so good.

That was a classic quote.
 ;)

[CC]

just watched the 2nd part.
goooooood stuff!

[marktwain]

Forgot who the Irish guy was, every time they cut to him he has another beer.

And those were some massive beers, too! [smiley=drunk.gif]

That was Liam Clancy, of the Clancy Bros. and Tommy Makem.  They did an amazing version of "when the ship comes in" on the Bob Dylan 30th anniversary tribute, many years ago.

[JacketGal]

Loved it and all the insight! Dylan seems humble, I agree. And to think he used to play with the media all the time, nothing he said was a straight answer, and now he's talking about how his high school girlfriends brought out the 'poet' in him!!
Nice work by Scorcese, that man can direct a music documentary.

[whothrewthecake]

part 2 exceeded my expectations. i loved the DEEP insight into bob and joan's relationship, straight from their mouths. words that have never been said, at least as far as i know. amazing concert footage again, and i can't help but love a young richard manuel!  ;D

ending it with the judas clip was priceless. very very awesome.

[marktwain]

Anybody think it was strange that there were no interviews with the Band (only that Mickey dude that replaced Levon)? ???

Agreed that part 2 was incredible, too.  
I wonder how much extra live footage the DVD has...

[CC]

The extra features are made up of seven bonus 'live' songs from a variety of sources. We get 'Blowing In The Wind' from a TV show in 1963 which has Dylan looking a bit like a wax model; 'Girl From the North Country' from Canadian TV, on a log-cabin set and sounding spare and beautiful; 'Man of Constant Sorrow' from a 1964 TV appearance; 'Mr Tambourine Man' from Newport 1964 which looks pristine and sounds gorgeous; 'Love Minus Zero/No Limit' from London 1965, an outtake from Don't Look Back unless I'm mistaken in which Dylan looks very relaxed off-stage; 'Like a Rolling Stone' from Newcastle 1966 with Dylan coming across as quite aggressive and stringing the song out to nearly 9 minutes; and 'One Too Many Mornings' from Liverpool 1966 in a fantastic electrical version. All of these are well worth seeing.

There are also four performances by 'guests'. Liam Clancy sings 'Girl of the North Country' after rambling on engagingly for a bit. Maria Muldaur sings an outtake from the 'Infidels' album, 'Lord Protect My Child'. Mavis Staples storms through 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' and Joan Baez sings her hit version of 'Love Is Just A Four Letter Word'.

Finally, we get a very bizarre unused promo clip for the marvellous 'Positively 4th Street', one of Dylan's most biliously nasty songs, and some all-too brief footage of him developing a beautiful song called 'I Can't Leave Her Behind' in a hotel room in Glasgow.

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=58642