| PBS | Season Premiere Date: September 26, 2005 |
Summary:
Martin Scorsese's two-part documentary about legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's rise to fame (and conversion from folk singer to rocker) in the period from 1961-66 aired as part of the PBS series American Masters.
Genre(s):
Documentary, Music
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Jul 8, 2019
No Direction Home is a soul-stirring Scorsese masterwork. His The Last Waltz, which documented The Band's final concert, is generally considered the big screen's best-ever rock performance film. Now he's outdone himself with a lyrical, magical film rich in both context and subtext. [26 Sep 2005, p.1G]
Jul 8, 2019
[An] utterly brilliant documentary. [25 Sep 2005, p.1E]
Jul 8, 2019
It runs 3 hours and 37 minutes. It's too darned short. [26 Sep 2005, p.C7]
Jul 8, 2019
The achievement of "No Direction Home" is that it humanizes the enigma without demystifying the artist, and it gives us a person to care about. [25 Sep 2005, p.E1]
Jul 8, 2019
"No Direction Home" isn't moviemaking, it's mythmaking -- albeit of the highest order. It lacks the hurly-burly immediacy of D.A. Pennebaker's 1967 portrait of Dylan on the road, "Dont Look Back," or the Maysles brothers' documentary of the Rolling Stones 1969 tour, "Gimme Shelter." Instead, it settles for the easy conclusions that Dylan once routinely punctured. That said, it's still a fascinating valentine from one artist to another, the most detailed look yet at Dylan's transformation from acoustic folk singer to shades-wearing rocker. [25 Sep 2005, p.C9]
Jul 8, 2019
While "No Direction Home" can't turn the American Mastery trick of telling us what makes a cultural titan tick, it probably gets deeper inside the Dylan mystery than any such portrait is likely to. [26 Sep 2005, p.B17]
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