My puppy Louis is always stealing paper off the table… he eats the documents… Bob could never! I prefer Dylan with a (in this case The) band to Dylan on solo guitar and I find the complete impressionism of the editing here a bit more evocative than the comparatively coherent vérité of Don’t Look Back (not to mention that Mr. Zimmerman’s editorial decisions are a lot less self-aggrandizing - love all the clips of people complaining about the tour), but…
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Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back 1967
Only remotely engaging when there’s music happening, and even then it’s usually early Dylan so the ceiling can only be so high - harmonica solo on Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright here is one of his worst. I think we as a culture need to stop telling young white men that their voices are worth hearing
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The Devil and Daniel Johnston 2005
Daniel Johnston was not a misunderstood genius.
This documentary proves that he was, in fact, a very well-understood one, surrounded by people who saw his (frankly, practically peerless) talent and alternately strived to get him the help he needed and actively enabled his darkest periods. The Devil and Daniel Johnston is in a precarious position as a profile of perhaps the best-known so-called “outsider musician,” perfectly poised to deflate the idiot-savant notions behind that dangerously ableist and classist category, with…
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Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV 2024
Has no real interest in “the dark side of kid’s TV” as it pertains to anything other than the work of Dan Schneider - this docuseries (stretched thin into 4 episodes) seems made by and for people who want it to be the smoking gun that finally exposes him as the pedophile rapist father of Jamie Lynn Spears’s child they’ve convinced themselves he is after watching too many YouTube video essays about how “this show you LOVED as a kid…
