Bob Dylan DVD, Eat the Document. Rare

Eat the Document är en film från 1972 om artisten Bob Dylan, som också har regisserad den. Den filmades under Dylans Europaturné 1966, året efter den berömda Dylandokumentären Se dig inte om. Filmen blev Dylans debut som regissör.

Från wikipedia;

Eat the Document is a rarely exhibited documentary of Bob Dylan's 1966 tour of the United Kingdom with the Hawks. It was shot under Dylan's direction by D. A. Pennebaker, whose groundbreaking documentary Dont Look Back [sic] chronicled Dylan's 1965 British tour. The film was originally commissioned for the ABC television series Stage '66. According to Howard Sounes'sbiography, "Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan", after hismotorbike accident in July 1966, Dylan viewed a cut of the materialedited by Pennebaker and Bob Neuwirth and thought it was too similar to Dont Look Back.Dylan decided to re-edit the film himself, assisted by longtimeassociate Howard Alk. Dylan however, was no film maker. Pennebakerstated: "It's not something you learn parking cars in a garage. Yougotta know some of the rules and he didn't know any of the rules."Dylan and Alk hacked up the footage to produce a rough cut. Their cutwas eventually shown to ABC television, who promptly rejected it as incomprehensible to a mainstream audience.^[1]

The film has its moments, including some powerful live performancesof Dylan's songs of the period. It was never given a theatrical releaseor made commercially available on video, but unauthorized bootleg copies circulate among Dylan collectors. Also circulating in various bootleg formats is a long outtake featuring a possibly alcohol- or drug-impaired Dylan in a limousine with John Lennon.As Dylan shows signs of fatigue, Lennon urges him to get a grip onhimself: "Do you suffer from sore eyes, groovy forehead, or curly hair?Take Zimdon!...Come come, boy, it's only a film. Pull yourselftogether."^[2] Todd Haynes's film I'm Not There features a dramatisation of this conversation, with Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan.

Highlights of the film include an interview with the Manchester FreeTrade Hall concert-goer who shouted "Judas!" during the second,electric half of the set; the performances with the Hawks; the scenesof Dylan and Robertson in hotel rooms throughout England playingotherwise-unreleased songs; and a piano duet with Johnny Cash.

Some of the concert footage shot for Eat the Document - including the "Judas" incident in Manchester's Free Trade Hall - was used in Martin Scorsese's Dylan documentary, No Direction Home.

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