Bob Dylan · Film

Dont Look Back

D. A. Pennebaker · 1967

Dont Look Back is a 1967 vérité documentary by D. A. Pennebaker capturing Bob Dylan’s 1965 UK tour. Shot on handheld 16mm black-and-white film with direct sound, it avoids narration, exposition or chronological framing. Instead, it observes Dylan’s interactions with Joan Baez, Albert Grossman, Allen Ginsberg and others, alongside performances and unscripted encounters. Its power lies in sustained observation, rhythmic editing and deliberate ambiguity — not in decoding its subject, but in recording the conditions of his visibility.

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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Sam Peckinpah · 1973

Sam Peckinpah’s 1973 revisionist Western follows Pat Garrett’s reluctant pursuit of Billy the Kid, framed by Garrett’s own assassination. Shot in Durango with John Coquillon, scored by Bob Dylan, and written by Rudy Wurlitzer, it rejects heroic narrative in favour of cyclical fatalism—where lawmen are hired hands, outlaws are inconveniences, and violence serves capital, not justice.