No Direction Home

If you want to know about Bob Dylan there is one documentary that I think is a must. No Direction Home by Martin Scorsese is a phenomenal movie for Dylan fans to watch. Scorsese is known for his wonderful music documentaries such as The Last Waltz, the Bands farewell show, and Give Me Shelter The Rolling Stones’ performance. No Direction Home is filled with amazing interviews from Dylan’s peers and friends such as former girl friend Joan Baez. It has amazing footage of Dylan performing in the New Port Folk Festival as well as the historic 1966 rock revival shows that Dylan put on in England. The documentary also includes some of Dylan’s amazingly entertaining interviews over the years. The movie takes covers Dylan’s beginnings as a folk singer passing the hat in Greenwich Village to the rock star that he is known as today. Some of my favorite parts of the documentary is him being called Judas by some of the English fans who preferred his more humble folk roots compared to his new rock songs, in which Dylan yelled to his backing band known simply now as “The Band”, “Play it F***ing loud!” It shows Dylan in the light that you like to see him as, the musician who just wants to play his music. He doesn’t care if you like or think his music is topical he just wants to play and the movie shows this very well. This is something that every Dylan fan should watch if the enjoys not only Dylan’s music but his persona as well.