Don't Look Back

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Dont Look Back, 1967.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Don’t Look Back, 1967.

The de facto music video that opens D.A. Pennebaker’s much-praised documentary about Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour in England, this scene shot in New York, Dylan’s recording, flipping the cards with puns and intentional errors, and that is Allen Ginsberg in the background, from Dont Look Back, 1967. Available on DVD and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.

First fleeing an event in a hired car, Bob Dylan with Joan Baez and friends, then in a London hotel, 1965, Joan performing Dylan’s Percy’s Song and Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word, both at the time un-released, Dylan typing, in D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary Dont Look Back, 1967. Available on DVD and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.

D.A. Pennebaker directing and editing, first from filmmaker Ed Emshwiller’s footage of Bob Dylan in Greenwood, Mississippi, July 1963, then The Times They Are A-Changin’ and To Ramona from his Royal Albert Hall shows, May, 1965, in Dont Look Back, 1967. Available on DVD and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.

At Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, May 1965, subject Bob Dylan in a good-humored but spiky backstage exchange with student columnist and future record executive Terry Ellis, D.A. Pennebaker on camera, in his documentary Dont Look Back, 1967. Available on DVD and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.