"Bob Dylan or Cate Blanchett? The title might tell us to not look back, but for younger viewers rapt
by Todd Haynes’s I’m Not There (still going strong at Film Forum), the temptation is irresistible."
– Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

"Seminal. Not only cemented the musician's status as an icon of sixties cool;
it's also a crash course in the breathtaking immediacy of vérité filmmaking."
– New York magazine

"If the art of being cool could be learned from a film,
then the only one you'd ever need to study would be Dont Look Back."
– Angela Ashman, The Village Voice

"An unforgettable all-access pass behind the scenes of Bob Dylan's '65 British tour, D.A. Pennebaker's landmark 1967 rock doc all but invented the form while presaging the music video… The concert footage of the young Dylan in his punky prime is electrifying, but the most fun comes from the privileged glimpses of his sadistic wit."
– Jim Ridley, The Village Voice. Click here for full review

"An essential rock doc!" – Time Out New York

(1967) Bob Dylan, on tour in England in 1965, takes time out in hotel rooms to casually compose at a piano; keeps on typing as Joan Baez sings and plays beyond his right shoulder; subtly disses acolyte Donovan; argues with a buttoned-down Time correspondent — among the endless stream of reporters trailing in his wake — over “truth” and “facts”; mercilessly puts on a cleancut science student/ college journalist; and more than meets his match in a so-veddy-proper “high sheriff’s lady.” Other highlights include Alan Price’s deer-in-the-headlights look into the camera at a casual mention of his separation from The Animals; crass manager Albert Grossman’s profanity-laced heave-ho of pushy hotel staffers; and — most iconic of all — a blasé Dylan flashing lyric-emblazoned cue cards for “Subterranean Homesick Blues” to the camera, with Allen Ginsberg lurking in the background: one of the most imitated, homaged and anthologized sequences in all of rock doc history. And then there’s the concerts, topped by two triumphant nights at the Royal Albert Hall, with songs including “All I Really Want to Do”, “The Times They Are a Changin’”, and “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.” “Like a very good Dylan album — let’s say Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 Revisited or The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan ... Pennebaker lets him have his mysteries, which is both right and generous; robbing a poet of mystery is like pulling the wings off a butterfly.” – Matt Zoller Seitz. “Evokes the 60s like few other documents; Dylan’s relentless heaping of scorn on the mainstream press, before the coercive tentacles of ‘creative management’ made such things virtually impossible, is especially telling... Memorable for its goofy, syncopated opening sequence alone.” – Jonathan Rosenbaum. “As drenched with perfumey nostalgia as Proust’s madeleine. But it seems less dated now than it did in 1965.” – J. Hoberman. “My first serious film... I felt in the end that I hadn’t had to compromise anything, that it was as rough and raw and mean as it had to be.” – Pennebaker.
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I’M NOT THERE original soundtrack

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR: BOB DYLAN LIVE AT THE NEWPORT FILM FESTIVAL 1963-1965 a film by Murray Lerner