Don't Look Back
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- For the album by John Lee Hooker, see Don't Look Back (blues album).
- For the album by Boston, see Don't Look Back (album).
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Don't Look Back is a 1967 documentary film which covers Bob Dylan's tour of England in 1965, including appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan. The film shows a young Dylan: confident if not arrogant, confrontational and contrary. Standout scenes include Dylan's extended taunting of a much older Time Magazine journalist and Dylan's rather cruel snubbing of fellow singer/sometime lover Joan Baez.
The film was written and directed by D.A. Pennebaker. The United States' National Film Preservation Foundation has declared the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
A portion of the film also served as a music video for Dylan's song "Subterranean Homesick Blues". The song is played as Dylan holds posters with the song's lyrics (including misspellings and various other mistakes). Allen Ginsberg also makes a cameo during this portion of the film.
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Trivia
- The pop band Belle & Sebastian reference the movie in their song "Like Dylan in the Movies" (refrain: "And if they follow you/don't look back/like Dylan in the movies").
- Originally the title was spelled without a conjunction: 'Dont Look Back' (rather than 'Don't Look Back').