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It shouldn’t be any secret that Bob Dylan is one of my all-time favourite musicians. Inevitably I’ve already watched D. A. Pennebaker’s Dont Look Back years ago and only found myself appreciating his music all the more, but he wasn’t merely just a fantastic singer and songwriter. If anything, No Direction Home only reaffirms the light in which I’ve always seen Bob Dylan as over the years of great music that he has produced, he was a poet. And yet from all the highs and lows his career has faced, there was always something more about Dylan himself that makes him a fascinating enough case study, because like all the best artists he refuses to stop: always taking a new direction just as the film’s title would say, taking itself from a lyric from one of Dylan’s very best songs: “How does it feel, to be on your own, with no direction home? A complete unknown, like a rolling stone.” And maybe it’s that feeling of freedom that only granted Bob Dylan to express himself so powerfully without losing that touch of grace in his music.
Cinema from the Spectrum 