Don’t Look Back (no 43)

 

by Allan Fish

(USA 1967 96m) DVD1/2

Subterranean Homesick Blues

p  John Court, Albert Grossman  d/w/ph/ed  D.E.Pennebaker  m/ly  Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan, Albert Grossman, Joan Baez, Alan Price, Donovan, Bob Neuwirth,

To call this legendary film the greatest concert film in existence could be interpreted as either gross understatement or misleading.  There have been other fine concert films, of course, from Gimme Shelter to Woodstock to The Last Waltz, and yet they somehow fall short of Pennebaker’s achievement.  Where to even think of beginning…

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