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Post by musicaljustice on Sept 29, 2005 16:40:38 GMT -5
I'd have to say that it's High Fidelity with John Cusack & Jack Black... Best rock concert movie would be U2's Rattle and Hum.
Agree? Disagree?
JC
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Post by mcallan on Oct 28, 2005 0:08:21 GMT -5
Although I love High Fidelity (haven't seen Rattle and Hum), I would have to disagree. "Don't Look Back," D.A. Pennebaker's documentary of Dylan's first British tour. Hands down. None better. The film catches Dylan at the crucial moment in his career, just before he goes electric. Joan Baez is, of course in the entourage, as well as a 16 year-old Robbie Robertson.
Throughout the film, you see Dylan working out his ideas on the piano for what will become Highway 61 Revisited. In one of my favorite scenes, Dylan is working on new material as Joan Baez sings "Percy's Song," a brilliant, tragic ballad Dylan had written years before but had never recorded for release. To Dylan, it is a b-side at best, and he has long since moved on. Midway through the film, Baez disappears. Just as Dylan would soon do to the folk music scene itself, he has left Baez behind musically and emotionally.
Pennebaker is so unobtrusive as a documentarian, that it is as if he is just a fly on the wall. The film is incredibly intimate.
And, of course, I have to mention the now-famous opening of the film, the first music video, as it were, for Subterranean Homesick Blues which features Dylan, a stack of cue cards, and the late Allen Ginsberg.
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Post by musicaljustice on Oct 28, 2005 13:55:13 GMT -5
Just added it to my Netflix queue so I'll let you know what I think. Maybe we should add a category for Rock Documentary... Does Spinal Tap count?  |
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Post by wowposter on Nov 7, 2008 8:32:58 GMT -5
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