Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Mark goes to the bar...I mean, movies: Eat the Document (dir. Bob Dylan, Howarad Alk) As a documentary, this one is for folks who thought Don't Look Back was slick and overproduced--compared to this movie, Don't Look Back looks like Woodstock. And the version I saw (at the Sunset Tavern's wonderful Monday-night rock movie series)started with 10 uncut minutes of Dylan mumbling and looking blitzed while driving around with John Lennon . (It's cut to about a minute in the movie.) So this is for two types of fans: people who love raw cinéma vérité and people who love Bob Dylan. For the latter, you get terrific concert sequences of Dylan with the Band (né Hawks) playing like Blonde on Blonde turned up to 12. (I just wish someone had dubbed in their live album instead of the godawful one-mike live sound!) As an added bonus, you get to hear some beautiful acoustic performances by Dylan and Robbie Robertson in some hotel room of a couple of songs I didn't recognize but would love to hear on one of the Bootleg Series albums. Mark's rating: **½

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