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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0886971446692
Format: Best of, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Running Time: 83 minutes
Sales Rank: 3220
Studio: Sony
Theatrical Release Date: October 30, 2007
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Matched only by the Beatles and Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan continues to captivate music and pop culture fans with a seemingly never-ending stream of new and old recordings, books, documentaries, feature films, and more. The Other Side of the Mirror - Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 is a worthy addition to the canon; whether this 83-minute compilation will serve to illuminate the Dylan myth or merely perpetuate it is open to question, but without a doubt there's plenty of fascinating material here. There are nearly 20 songs represented, covering three consecutive years of Dylan appearances at the famed Rhode Island festival. Some have been seen before (most recently in No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese's 2005 Dylan doc, and in Festival, a Newport chronicle released on DVD that same year and directed by Murray Lerner, who is also responsible for The Other Side of the Mirror). Some are from Dylan's daytime "workshops," others from his nighttime main stage performances. Some are complete, others oddly truncated. Some are terrific (like "Chimes of Freedom," 1964), others not so much (cf. the turgid "With God on Our Side" from '63, with Joan Baez adding shrill harmony). In any case, these were the years when Dylan assumed the mantle of "spokesman of a generation," whether he wanted it or not. We see him evolving from the earnest young protest singer of '63 to the visionary artist of the following year who, with the astonishing torrent of rhymes, alliterations, symbols, and brilliant turns of phrase in "Chimes" and "Mr. Tambourine Man," turned the whole notion of songwriting on its ear. And, of course, we also witness Dylan's turn from acoustic to electric guitar, when he was joined onstage by members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (sans Butterfield himself) in 1965; only two songs from that legendary (and, at the time, infamous) gig are seen here, and viewed four decades after the fact, neither "Maggie's Farm" nor "Like a Rolling Stone" is all that special, notwithstanding some searing solo work by guitarist Mike Bloomfield. The DVD package, which includes a bonus interview with Lerner and a nice booklet with liner notes by Tom Piazza, adds to the appeal of what has to rank as a must-have for Dylanologists of every stripe. --Sam Graham
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The Other Side of the Mirror - DVD
Few performances in history are as legendary - or as controversial - as Bob Dylan's 1965 appearance at the Newport Folk Festival. In a single, galvanizing instant, Dylan plugged an entire generation in, forever changing not only the way the music was made, but the way it was heard. By putting you in the audience for Dylan's Newport performances from 1963 through that pivotal set in 1965, Academy Award®-winning director Murray Lerner's The Other Side Of The Mirror captures Dylan's metamorphosis from the folk family's best-kept secret to rock's fiercely confrontational poet who would electrify an entire nation and become the voice of his generation.
CHAPTER LIST
All I Really Want To Do (7/24/1965) - afternoon workshop
1963
North Country Blues
With God On Our Side (with Joan Baez)
Talkin' World War III Blues
Who Killed Davey Moore?
Only A Pawn In Their Game
Blowin' In The Wind (with The Freedom Singers, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul and Mary)
1964
Mr. Tambourine Man
Johnny Cash sings Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Joan Baez sings Mary Hamilton as Bob Dylan
It Ain't Me, Babe (with Joan Baez)
With God On Our Side (with Joan Baez)
Chimes Of Freedom
1965
If You Gotta Go, Go Now
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Maggie's Farm (electric)
Like A Rolling Stone (electric)
Mr. Tambourine Man
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Bonus Feature: Interview with director Murray Lerner
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This album is unequivically the BIGGEST RIPOFF of all time. I was so disappointed when I put on side one and heard nothing but dead silence. Under NO circumstances fall for this ruse. All you will get is a BLANK CD. Nothing, nix,nil,nada.. I can't believe Amazon would stoop to this depth for a few dollars. I suppose if you sell thousands of copies and only a hand ful of payiny customers complain for their money back, it pays big dividends for Amazon! I am truely disappointed. David J. McCormack, ... Read More
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Bob Dylan moving from acoustic to electric music reflected the switch the entire society was making from the agricultural and industrial ages to the electrical or computer age. It also bookmarked the start of the drug revolution, as people turned up the volume and distortion in answer to the mind-blowing stress of the Vietnam War. Bob Dylan's move led many others to electrical music, from folk, as well. Bob Dylan was the most influential artist of his age.
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The producer of this film sought publication in some form for decades, and finally got it. This is a fascinating and completely straightforward portrayal without commentary or interpretation of Dylan's first three years performing at the Newport Folk Festival. The progression from uncertain newcomer to a bold, defiant leader of a new folk movement unfolds in the sequence of individual performances documented in this movie.
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Is all you have to say. Bob Dylan. He could have given us alot more if they only would have left him alone, to perform for us, anyway he wanted to. Whether acoustic or electric, makes no difference to me, he was and still is magnificent! No one likes to get booed. But he still came out with tears in his eyes (after being booed for going electric), and gave us a few more acoustic numbers, in the 1965 Newport Festival. This is a great dvd. Only one thing makes my stomach turn. The sound of Baez's voice. ... Read More
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Okay, first off, this is way better than "Festival", which is surely terrific itself (particuarly Son House and Buffy Sainte-Marie). But this, a collection from all the Newport Folk Festival Dylan perfomances from his peak years, when he WAS the Greatest, is unbelievable.
Highlights are getting to actually SEE him doing Who Killed Davey Moore?; a thrilling Only A Pawn In Their Game (majestic phrasing); If You Gotta Go, Go Now, which besides being a great song, is one of those clips on here ... Read More
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