No Direction Home - Bob Dylan', BBC2, 26 and 27 September.
Martin Scorsese's stunning Bob Dylan documentary will be all over British TV screens soon. It's a major event, says David Thomson, not least because music, in all its forms, has provided the creator of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull with some of his greatest moments - and some of the most troubling...
stunning two-part documentary on the life and work of Bob Dylan made by Scorsese for HBO and about to appear on the BBC's Arena strand. (The film contains vast tracts of unseen footage of the singer in the period leading to his strange apotheosis in 1966, including the notorious "Judas!" moment at Manchester Free Hall - an episode that instantly entered pop lore and will be changed forever as an idea once it has been cast in celluloid and seen by the rest of us for the first time.) But Scorsese's filmography shows a nearly constant interest in music.
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