Don't Look Back

The Times They Are A-changin’

Director D.A. Pennebaker is represented twice in the Out Loud! film programme. From Jimi Hendrix and Ravi Shankar (in Monterey Pop) we now move on to Bob Dylan. Pennebaker’s ‘fly-on-the-wall’ portrait is both a classic rock documentary and an essential artefact of 20th-century popular culture. Pennebaker zooms in on the phenomenon of Dylan during a British tour in 1965: a strange extraterrestrial visitor in the context of mid-60s England. The result is an enlightening and engaging portrait capturing the singer-songwriter on the eve of his transformation from folk prophet to groundbreaking rocker.

© Pennebaker Hegedus Films