Customer Reviews
Bob Reality 
2008-08-05
Get to know the beginning of a monumental career, and the musician who created it, in this insightful and direct telling of a bit of Bob Dylan's early tour life. This is great!
Must have DVD for Dylan fans 2008-06-24
Absolutly a great DVD. This concert tour was the last before he went on his "electrial" tour. Both DVDs are excellent. This flim puts you right in the middle of the tour in England. If you enjoy the music of Bob Dylan, especially his early years, this is a DVD set you will play over and over.
the best one 2008-04-05
If you have to bye only one Bob Dylan DVD, please choose DON'T LOOK BACK DeLUXE EDITION,simply because it's wonderful. You can see an artist in his best performance who tries not to look cool because he is the quintessece of cool. Dylan in the 60's is the wish of any artist to be......... an unforgetable DVD, from the GREATEST AMERICAN ARTIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY..........
Dylan being Dylan 2008-01-09
This gives you a different view into Dylan showing both the positive and negative. Honest.
OK film let down by Dylan playing up to the camera and terrible sound and picture quality 
2007-12-25
"Don't Look Back" is OK but not the masterpiece many other reviews would lead you to believe. Sound and picture quality are very poor, concert performances are attenuated (oh so frustrating!), and the verbal jousting of Dylan with reporters and fans becomes tiresome especially when we can see it's obviously just a put-on for the cameras.
Still it does capture some of the energy of Dylan at this time - just before he went electric - and the seediness of the touring life.
Long time fan 2007-09-29
Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back - 65 Tour Edition is the ultimate look at Bob Dylan's concert tour of England in the spring of 1965 - one of the most intimate profiles of an artist ever put to film. This definitive set includes the remastered classic film by D.A. Pennebaker a brand-new hour-long look at Dylan and the original 1968 companion book to the film all housed in an eye-catching collectible package. More than just a concert film Don't Look Back is a window into the spirit of the 60s and one of the poet-musicians whose words and songs defined it.Features: Five Original Uncut Audio Tracks Including: "It Ain't Me Babe" "It's All Over Now" "Baby Blue" "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll" "To Ramona"Two Commentaries by Director D.A. Pennebaker and Former Tour Manager Bob NeuwirthNever-Before-Seen Version of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" Cue-Card SequenceOriginal Theatrical TrailerBob Dylan 65 Revisited - A Brand-New Pennebaker Work Culled From Over 20 Hours of Never-Before-Seen Footage of Dylan's 1965 English TourNew Commentary with D.A. Pennebaker and Former Tour Manager Bob NeuwirthDon't Look Back Companion Book - A 168-Page Collectible Reproduction of the Rare 1968 Edition Packed with Over 200 PhotosCollectible Flipbook Featuring a Frame-by-Frame Look at the "Subterranean Homesick Blues" Cue-Card SequenceSystem Requirements:Run Time: 96 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 767685982433 Manufacturer No: AAE-9824
Archival Treasure 2007-07-15
Bob Dylan often was in a shroud of mystery. That's why J. Robert Van Dyke's documentary, `Don't Look Back' is so valuable. Caught in the throes of his tour in England, the 1967 copyright only gives the release date of this fun and illuminating look at the great singer/songwriter/musician. Taking from his newly released album, `Bringing It All Back Home,' the footage undoubtedly came from 1965 when he controversially went electric and invented the folk-rock hybrid. The feel of the black and white film sometimes seems shaky and impromptu, and scenes transition at times like a home movie. Yet, the editing is the real gig, capturing some essential moments in the life of Dylan and his entourage at a consequential time in his career.
The highlights are many. There are times for him to "meet the press". What is so revealing is how he turns the tables on one British reporter and a 'Time' correspondent later. When a British reporter asks Bob, "What is your attitude about life?" He's put off by the ubiquitous question; so when he asks the reporter the same question, the reporter says he can't answer the question in two minutes. Dylan responds, "How do you expect me to?" There are other great moments. Joan Baez can be the real ham sometimes, but when she sings in their room her voice resonates beautifully. Similarly, we get a brief, intimate performance by Donovan who visits Dylan. There are also some fine behind-the-scenes action. It becomes heated when the reporters come to interview Dylan, and one man tells his manager, Alan Grossman, to get out. Another scene shows him making interesting negotiations for a couple of Dylan's performing nights in London. Of course, the whole affair is worth the price of admission to be able to see and hear the "Bard of Hibbing" onstage doing numbers like "It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll". The whole film starts with a bare-bones video of "Subterreanean Homesick Blues," with Dylan changing display cards with his lyrics before the Beatles put theirs on `Sgt. Pepper'.
Although not as polished as Scorsese's film, 'No Direction Home,' it is essential. The real comparison is not with Scorsese's work, but a comparison of this film with what it would be like to have gone without it. (I discovered this movie from `Rolling Stone,' as a list-topper from their "Best Films of Rock `N Roll".)
It all stays good 2007-05-27
I first saw this film as part of the Vancouver Film Festival one summer evening in the late sixties. It engrossed me then and in its VHS form and in this new double cd release. What's great about this issue is the "out takes" have been reworked into a companion piece that accompanies the original release in this package. The commentaries supplied by D.A. Pennebaker and Bob Nieuwerth are fun and insightful. I loved it. and can't wait for someone to do a similar treatment to "Eat The Document", Dylan's tour with the Hawks a year and a bit later.
Don't look Back 2007-05-24
I always wanted to have this film; and now it's even better. It was a movie that was only seen by a few; now it can be seen by everyone. Thanx for having it.
Finally the complete songs 2007-05-21
I waited for so long for them to add the rest of the songs on
this great documentary. It is hard to imagine them making this
documentary any better than it was, but they did. Thank you.
