Completely Unknown, and Somewhat Unknowable
I prepped for this movie. The catalyst, for me, was watching Martin Scorsese's dry-as-bones film "Beatles '64," that so diced-and-spliced things up, mashing together the things I cared about with things that seemed irrelevant to me (I suppose it's interesting in the abstract to see Leonard Bernstein dissect the time signature variations within the 1966 song "She Said She Said," but, really? ), that I found myself going back to the Maysles brothers' film "The First US Visit" just to see again how exciting and fresh the Beatles were to Americans in 1964. So I got what I could find to prepare for this film: D.A. Pennebaker's groundbreaking film about Bob Dylan's 1965 UK Tour, "Don't Look Back," that revealed Dylan in metamorphosis yet leaving events to speak for themselves. Then, Scorsese's "No Direction Home," a thrilling 200 minute document covering Dylan up through the end of his 1966 UK tour, a...