"No Direction
Home": Purists rightly love "Dont Look Back," but
Martin Scorsese repurposed and reorganized that
footage and dug out even more. With candid new interviews and tons of unreleased
music, "No Direction Home" is a stunning warts-and-all look at Bob Dylan's legendary
... more British tours of '65 and '66,
culminating in the holy grail: actual footage of the legendary "Judas!" moment
and the blistering "Like a Rolling Stone" response. Game, set, match. Performer
and audience adore yet taunt each other; at one point, Dylan temporarily calms a
booing audience by saying, "I wanna sing a folk song now," then he barrels into
a pounding electric version of "Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat." The concert
performances are his best ever, even as the touring, drugs and acclaim take
their toll. Toward the end of the tour Dylan stares with psychotic,
sleep-starved eyes, and desperately tells an interviewer, "I just want to go
home." (Paramount Pictures)Close