I love Dylan and don't know why it took me all these years to finally get round to watching this documentary. I saw it last week and was thoroughly surprised by how brilliant it was. It consists mainly of a UK tour Dylan did in 1965 so some great moments of him on stage but it's all the back stage stuff that goes into a tour which was a joy to watch. There are fantastic moments when he's being interviewed by journalists, the dirty world of fee negotiations with Dylan's hard-nosed manager, groupies and wannabes hanging around, Dylan writing lyrics and milling out with pals in hotel rooms and his gently deteriorating relationship with Joan Baez. All these kind of scenes in some film makers hands could be really boring but everything in this film is utterly absorbing. I loved all the scenes with the journalists and their agenda driven questions, flustered by Dylan's easy resistance. This sort of antagonism contrasted so well with the intimate scenes with his friends who are not asking him things like, "What is your real message?" and "Are you Folk?"
Beautiful film. An absolute gem.
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