Keep A Good Head and Always Carry A Lightbulb

The new IFC theatre on Sixth Ave is straight killing it this week on the music/film crossover tip. I'm gonna go down to check out former Kill Rock Star signee Miranda July's new film for sure, but what I'm really getting prepared for is the full-on fan-out that's gonna come when I see the Young Elz gestalt-forming classic Don't Look Back on the big screen.

Shot by documentary filmmaker Don Pennebaker during the Dylz's 1965 tour of England—his last as a strictly acoustic performer and his first as a true-to-earth but closer to the heavens pop star—this is the portrait of the young man that launched a thousand sneers and lit a thousand cigarettes.

A mix of aburdist media showman and  cloud-hopping musical visionary, Dylan's the most magnetic actor that never was and his supporting cast—Donovan, Joan Baez, Alan Price and Big Al Grossman—is nothing to sneeze at either. The cinema verite fly-on-the wall off-stage footage of Bobby putting on journos, playing Hank Williams songs and generally being the coolest motherfucker that ever was is worth the price of admission, but his performances of "To Romana", "Gates Of Eden" and "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" are on straight-up biblical time.

To put the whole thing in more managable terms, if you go out to see this, you can see where INXS got the whole placecard idea from. That's true.

Check out the IFC Center's website for this week's schedule of screenings.

 

Comments

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maureen

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this Lightbulb is for the good ideas, right??
peter

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Thats a good advise if you're an artist. hey nice picture.