Getting caught up with Dylan on film
Lots of Bob Dylan on film for you to read about - if you want
Good morning, friends. I have been trying to be a good boy with Santa coming and all and tried NOT to read any of the reviews/commentaries/analysis/criticisms of “A Complete Unknown” so as to see the film after Santa’s visit with as clear a mind as I have at this point in my life. A friend of mine actually wrote me and said he was waiting until I wrote about “A Complete Unknown” before deciding to go see it.
I did happen to see a story on the fabulous Expecting Rain site (been gently bugging Karl to do an interview with me) that prompted me to write this. It was a great call: “Bob Dylan movies to see before you see “A Complete Unknown.” And I thought, HEY, I can help with that.
BOB DYLAN ON FILM
Unlike many of your poor unsuspecting souls out there, I’ve watched ALL of “Renaldo and Clara” and ALL of “Eat The Document” as well as "The Other Side Of The Mirror” which documents ALL of Dylan’s Newport appearances and just for fun, I imagined what a Todd Haynes sequel to “I’m Not There” might look like if he focused on Bob’s most recent No. 1 hit, “Murder Most Foul.”
As a service to Bob Dylan Nation out there, I collected the links to all of these on a single post. Consider it a Christmas gift BEFORE we get to see “A Complete Unknown.”
Happy reading, one and all…
NOGO
The "real" Bob at Newport, 1965
In a few weeks, the re-creation will be among us. The sacrilege of our Bob Dylan playing electric music before the stunned masses at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25, 1965 will undoubtedly be the pivotal moment in “A Complete Unknown,” the new Dylan bio that hits the screens on Christmas day.
The strangeness of Bob Dylan's "Eat The Document"
EDITOR’S NOTE: While I wait for Amazon to get around to delivering my 27-Dylan and The Band CDs, I happened to spot a newer, crisper copy of Bob’s “Eat The Document” on Facebook the other day and thought I’d look at it again. The print was better but the film wasn’t. But as with all things Bob, there was always plenty to talk and think and write ab…
"I'm Not There" - the Sequel
With another Bob Dylan movie on the way with Timothy Chalamet as our hero, this seemed like an appropriate time to take another look at Todd Haynes’ extraordinary Dylan dream film - “I’m Not There,” a movie I really enjoyed when it came out, way back in 2007. Was it really that long ago?