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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 35 min. 9 sec.) ; 552356217 bytes |
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Drawing from hundreds of hours of unseen footage and rare recordings, in-depth interviews and revealing photographs, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, directed by Martin Scorsese, strikes a remarkable balance - telling the story of one man's journey and at the same time placing that story within the greater canvas of human events.No Direction Home: Bob Dylan starts in the eye of the hurricane. Bob Dylan, live, 1966 in front of a hostile audience inflamed by his decision to electrify his music. There are boos, cat calls, fans streaming out. On stage, in newly discovered footage, is Dylan singing Like a Rolling Stone. It's hard to imagine anyone walking out on this performance, much less booing it. Part two sees the story turn dark. At 23, Bob Dylan is already a newsworthy phenomenon, capable of filling Carnegie Hall without ever having a hit song on the radio. And with success comes expectations: expectations from the old left to become a political activist, expectations from the media to articulate the concerns of America's youth. It's a role in which Dylan is completely uninterested. He injects a heightened sense of poetry into his writing. He adds electricity to his music; electricity that now seems inevitable, but at the time labelled him a sell-out and a traitor. At a disastrous concert at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 his electrified instruments set the audience in turmoil. Director Martin Scorsese delicately balances Dylan's internal world with signpost images from the external world. Dylan's music is the backdrop as the war in Vietnam escalates, the free speech movement in Berkeley signals a new youth movement, and the nightly news brings home images people would never have dreamed of seeing on their television sets. Scorsese takes the time to let viewers really see the music unfold in revelatory concert performances. By the end of the film Scorsese has taken viewers on an emotional, musical and intellectual journey. (From the US, in English) (Part 2) |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2015-11-15 at 22:20:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Dylan, Bob, 1941-.
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Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.)
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Folk singers -- Biography.
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Folk-rock music.
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Music -- Performance.
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United States.
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Streaming video
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Scorsese, Martin, director
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Dylan, Bob, contributor
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