Synopsis
In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalists, and kicks back with fellow musicians Joan Baez, Donovan, and Alan Price.
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Cast
- Bob DylanSelf
- Albert GrossmanSelf
- Bob NeuwirthSelf
- Joan BaezSelf
- Alan PriceSelf
- Tito BurnsSelf
- DonovanSelf
- Derroll AdamsSelf
- Allen GinsbergSelf (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 100
The A.V. Club
Don't Look Back is a spellbinding portrayal of a gifted artist at the peak of his creative brilliance. - 100
CineVue
The total effect of these sequences is the feeling of hanging out with Dylan and his entourage. This is perhaps Don’t Look Back‘s greatest trick – convincing its audience that the Dylan we see here is anything other than a column of air: elusive, shifting and perpetually enigmatic. - 100
Chicago Tribune
Both a great concert movie and an amazing documentary of mid-'60s cutting-edge pop culture, this cinema verite record of Bob Dylan's pre-electric, pre-Band 1965 British tour was such a candid and unsparing look at stardom's inner sanctums and Dylan's caustic personality, audiences were shocked. [29 Oct 1999, p.M] - 88
San Francisco Examiner
Easily one of the best documentaries on any subject ever made. It is also one of the most cinematically influential. - 88
Slant Magazine
Even 48 years after its release, and well into Dylan’s current phase of relative transparency, D.A. Pennebaker’s Dont Look Back retains something of a forbidden quality, a feeling that we shouldn’t be privy to the things it shows us. - 80
The New York Times
It is an absorbing film. Whether one is a member of the under-30 set that regards Mr. Dylan as a spokesman, or one of the vanishing Americans over that age, this look into the life of a folk hero is likely to be both entertaining and occasionally disturbing. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is like a low-rent version of the rock concert documentaries that would follow. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
The film's greatest incidental pleasures are images of a time when outlaw musicians wore suit jackets and the craggy Dylan was a delicate, unconventionally handsome young man.
