Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.
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- TriviaThe scene where Donovan visits Dylan in his hotel was generally viewed as Dylan putting the young singer-songwriter in his place when he grabs the guitar and performs "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." But a 2015 Criterion Collection remaster, with improved sound, revealed that Donovan actually requested Dylan play that song for him. That gave the entire scene a new meaning and revealed Dylan and Donovan as more friends than rivals.
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Albert Grossman: They've started calling you an anarchist.
Bob Dylan: Who?
Albert Grossman: The papers. That's the word now.
Bob Dylan: Anarchist?
Albert Grossman: Right. Yeah.
Bob Dylan: The newspaper's say I'm an anarchist?
Albert Grossman: Two or three. Just because you don't offer any solutions.
Bob Dylan: You're kidding!
Albert Grossman: Of course.
Bob Dylan: Anarchist? Huh? Give me a cigarette. Give the anarchist a cigarette. Anarchist? A singer such as I.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Precious Images (1986)
It's hard to know how to take Bob Dylan in this documentary. Many of the interviews shown are ones given on the fly just before he goes on stage, and a certain amount of pre-show jitters and nervous reaction is probably to be expected. I would not want to interview a musician just before they are set to perform on strange stages in a foreign country. His interviews come across as a person who has been doing way too much of what we, in fact, see Bob doing all through the film, reading his own press clippings and being very impressed with what he finds. He comes across as a person who thinks he understands all, but is too deep to be understood in turn. So deep, in fact, that mere mortal reporters are not even worth taking the time to explain things to. He wastes the reporter's and the film audience's time playing verbal games, quibbling over choics of words in questions and in general coming across as far more self-important than he really is. This can be seen as anti-establishment, it can also be seen as being a plain old pain in the butt just because you can, to entertain your buddies.
Donovan is there, and is a presence from the start of the film. Bob is very aware of him, has been told that Donovan plays better than he does. Donovan was the British version of Bob and, at times, sold better than Bob did. They finally meet and trade songs, Bob sarcastically choosing to sing "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" right at Donovan. Joan Baez is there for a portion of the movie, beautiful and ignored by Bob and his entourage. Albert Grossman comes across as a bull in a China shop in England where the genteel older gentlemen who still handled promotion were absolutely no match for Grossman's New York tough guy ways. We see him on the phones, milking every last dollar he can from promoters.
Highly recommended documentary. For what it is worth, besides his music, this is about as close as anyone ever got to Bob Dylan. The film makers were wise in not asking any questions or directing anything, but just in letting Bob talk.
- Schlockmeister
- Jun 19, 2001
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- Gross US & Canada
- $27,158
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1