Thursday, October 11, 2007

Bob Dylan

After some poetry, some more poetry, but this time in a more visual from. I am a real fan of Bob Dylan, but I understand that you really have to be a big fan to appreciate "Eat the Document".

Plot: The documentary is about a Dylan tour made by a camera held in a very shaky hand. The film is about Dylan's tumultuous and historic 1966 tour of Europe with the Band - the one where he was roundly booed and reviled for "going electric" (and from which the recently released "Royal Albert Hall" album was taken). The legendary nature of these shows alone makes it worth having a document of them. Dylan himself re-edited this movie (it was originally a straightforward concert film intended to be shown on ABC-TV) into a bizarre mish-mash of music, surrealism and cinema verite vignettes of Dylan and his companions' offstage antics.

Enjoy!

1 Comments:

Osselin said...

I'm not able to understand the catholicism of Dylan. About the singer, great!