Livia
08-15-2007, 02:34 PM
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"The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1965," directed by Murray Lerner, US, 2007
Throughout the '60s, the Newport Folk Festival was one of the era's most reliable barometers of the changes beginning to rock American society. At the center of those changes was a rail-thin singer hailing from Hibbing, Minn., by way of Greenwich Village: Bob Dylan. Filmmaker Murray Lerner was there too, and he powerfully captured both the spirit of Newport as well as the extraordinary music produced there in his woefully neglected film Festival. Now Lerner has gone back to his footage from his years filming at Newport and created a revealing portrait of the young Dylan during the crucial period of 1963-65. We see the bright, chipper young Dylan--already a great crowd favorite in 1963--grow progressively darker and more withdrawn as he and his band take their first steps towards rock and roll in 1965. The film features Dylan singing stirring versions of many of his most famous songs--"Blowin' in the Wind," "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall," "Maggie's Farm," "Only a Pawn in Their Game"--as well as some of his legendary duets with Joan Baez. A great document of an extraordinary performer, and a fascinating complement to Todd Haynes' wonderful I'm Not There.
http://www.indiewire.com/ots/2007/08/nyff_07.html
"The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1965," directed by Murray Lerner, US, 2007
Throughout the '60s, the Newport Folk Festival was one of the era's most reliable barometers of the changes beginning to rock American society. At the center of those changes was a rail-thin singer hailing from Hibbing, Minn., by way of Greenwich Village: Bob Dylan. Filmmaker Murray Lerner was there too, and he powerfully captured both the spirit of Newport as well as the extraordinary music produced there in his woefully neglected film Festival. Now Lerner has gone back to his footage from his years filming at Newport and created a revealing portrait of the young Dylan during the crucial period of 1963-65. We see the bright, chipper young Dylan--already a great crowd favorite in 1963--grow progressively darker and more withdrawn as he and his band take their first steps towards rock and roll in 1965. The film features Dylan singing stirring versions of many of his most famous songs--"Blowin' in the Wind," "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall," "Maggie's Farm," "Only a Pawn in Their Game"--as well as some of his legendary duets with Joan Baez. A great document of an extraordinary performer, and a fascinating complement to Todd Haynes' wonderful I'm Not There.
http://www.indiewire.com/ots/2007/08/nyff_07.html