No Direction Home: Bob Dylan DVD Details

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Posted By: Kirk Siddals - 08/09/2005 09:07:36

Paramount Home Entertainment Presents

The highly anticipated, powerful new documentary:

“NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN”

~ A Martin Scorsese picture coming to DVD on 3rd October ~

In an event that has brought together Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN, is the first time Dylan has participated in an exclusive film biography. This DVD covers his explosive arrival on the downtown New York City scene in 1961 - with a raspy voice, pounding guitar and stunning lyrics - through to his near-fatal motorcycle accident in Woodstock in 1966, no one had more of an impact and no one changed the landscape of contemporary music more profoundly.

Private, almost reclusive and disdainful of customary forms of publicity, Dylan has now agreed to make an appearance in his own story. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the intimate and incomparable film includes an archive of exclusive footage from childhood, from the road and from backstage, as well as unreleased interviews conducted over the past 15 years with other seminal figures from those times - some of whom, like Allen Ginsberg, are long dead.

Dylan, an eight time Grammy award winner, talks openly and extensively about this critical period in his career, detailing the journey from his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, to Greenwich Village, New York, where he became the center of a musical and cultural upheaval, the effects of which are still felt today.

For the first time, The Bob Dylan Archives has made available rare treasures from its film, tape and stills collection, including footage from Murray Lerner’s film Festival, previously unreleased outtakes from D.A. Pennebaker’s famed 1967 documentary Don’t Look Back and interviews with Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Maria Muldaur, and many others. In anticipation of the film, members of Dylan’s worldwide community of fans also contributed rarities from their own collections.

In discussing his excitement about the current project, Scorsese remarked, “I had been a great fan for many years when I had the privilege to film Bob Dylan for The Last Waltz. I’ve admired and enjoyed his many musical transformations. For me, there is no other musical artist who weaves his influences so densely to create something so personal and unique.”

Spitfire Pictures’ Nigel Sinclair adds: “Bob Dylan is a true cultural worldwide icon. This is the first time Bob has given this unprecedented access, which, coupled with Marty’s outstanding filmmaking talents, should provide an unparalleled portrait of Dylan’s indelible mark on the culture of the 20th century.”

NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN, is a production of Spitfire Pictures, Grey Water Park Productions, Thirteen/WNET New York and Sikelia Productions, in co-production with Vulcan Productions, BBC and NHK. Apple are the worldwide sponsor of this release and will present the DVD and international version of NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN. Apple is also the corporate underwriter of the PBS broadcast.

NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN is available to buy on DVD (RRP £19.99) from
3rd October 2005, certificate TBC

DVD Technical Details

TITLE NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN
RELEASE DATE 3RD OCTOBER
FORMAT 2 DISC DVD
RUNNING TIME
Part 1 – 152 minutes approx.
Part 2 – 88 minutes 30 seconds approx.
RRP £19.99
CERTIFICATE UK TBC / IRELAND TBC

SPECIAL FEATURES

Bob Dylan performs “Like a Rolling Stone” at Newcastle
Bob Dylan performs “Blowing in the wind”
Bob Dylan “Positively 4th Street” promo
Bob Dylan performs “Girl of the North county”
Bob Dylan performs “Love minus Zero/ No limit”
Joan Baez performs “Love is just a four letter word”
Mavis Staples performs “A hard rain’s a-gonna fall”
Liam Clancy performs “Girl of the north county”
Bob Dylan performs “Mr Tamborine man” at the Newport Folk Festival
Bob Dylan performs “I cant leave her”
Maria Muldaur performs “Lord, protect my child”
Bob Dylan performs “One too many mornings”

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