The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965
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Actor: Bob DylanBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed)
Format: Best of, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony
DVD Reviews of The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965
DVD Review: Bob Dylan's Evolution
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this DVD as a gift for my boyfriend and, as soon as it arrived, we watched it together. Looking back to the mid-1960's, via this DVD, made me realize how far we all have come! Dylan looks like he is little more than a kid when he first started performing at this folk festival. His growth, as a musician, was phenomenal in this short period of time between 1963 to 1965. It is unfortunate that the festival attendees could not understand what they were witnessing at that time. Hopefully, they understand now.DVD Review: dvd
Summary: 5 Stars
The dvd The Other Side of the Mirror, Bob Dylan Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 is awesome. It's such a beautiful piece of history and a record of this incredible poet/artist/singer/songwriter's outlook on life, and what he gave to all of us and is still giving!
DVD Review: It's a No Brainer - It doesen't get better than this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Without saying more - this is El Primo buy it, buy a copy for your best friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I can see why 1/3 of the crowd booed when he went electric.
He is the best folk singer of all time. He made his name on the poetry and the unique delivery. It's not that he was bad as a rock act. But the audience couldn't hear the brilliant words due to the volume of the backup band.
They paid to see the brilliant genius playing acoustic and wailing. Coming out with a different style was a big turnoff. It would be like going to a Stones concert and
Mick singing opera!!!!!!!!
DVD Review: bob dylan dvd
Summary: 5 Stars
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Summary: 5 Stars
Were we ever really that young? That is the first reaction I had in viewing this film. A young Bob Dylan featured with his lady at the time (I believe, if memory serves) a young Joan Baez. And who, at least for the controversial 1965 concert (where he did that taboo couple of electrified guitar numbers that freaked the old-time folkies out) had this reviewer as part of his audience. I am not altogether sure that in the end Bob Dylan cared one way or the other whether he was the voice of a generation, my generation, the generation of '68 but in this very well configured musical documentary there is certainly a case to be made for that proposition. This is the high tide of Dylan's career as an acoustic folk performer making the transition to, for lack of a better term, folk rock or just flat out rock.
Probably the most important reason to view this documentary, however, is to observe Dylan's visual, vocal and professional transformation during this short two year period. In 1963 Dylan is dressed in the de rigueur work shirt and denim jeans with an unmade bed of a hairdo. His voice is, to be kind, reedy and scratchy, and his songs sung at that time are things like Blowin' in the Wind (done here with Baez and others in an incredible finale) and With God on Our Side (with Baez) reflecting the influence of traditional folk themes and of a style derived from his early hero Woody Guthrie. Newport 1964 is a transition. The hair is somewhat styled, the outfit more hippie than traditional folk garb, the voice is stronger reflecting the established fact that he is now `king of the hill' in the folk world. And he sings things like the classic Mr. Tambourine Man that give a hint that he is moving away from the tradition idiom.
Newport 1965 gives us the full blown Dylan that we have come not to know. The one that once we think we have him pegged slips away on us. Here we get no mixing it up with Baez or other folkies but a full-bore rock back up band to play Maggie's Farm and one of the anthems for my generation, Like A Rolling Stone. Then back to acoustic with It's All Over Now, Baby Blue and Love Minus Zero, No Limit (which is something of the love song anthem for my generation or, at least, one of them. All done in a very strong and confident voice that says here it is, take it or leave it. Wow. You know my answer.
This film, seemingly consciously, shies away from an investigation of any of the controversies of the time concerning the direction of Dylan's work. Pete Seeger's only shot on film, as I recall, was to introduce Dylan at the 1964 festival. The most controversial subjects addressed seem to be whether or not it would throw the schedule off to give into the crowd and have Dylan play longer. Or whether it was okay for the jaded youth of the day to have folk singers as idols. Aside from that shortcoming, which in any case can be pursued elsewhere, this film will go a long way to solving any lingering controversy about whether Mr. Dylan belongs in the folk pantheon.
Description of The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965
The Other Side of the Mirror - DVDFew performances in history are as legendary - or as controversial - as Bob Dylan's 1965 appearance at the Newport Folk Festival. In a single, galvanizing instant, Dylan plugged an entire generation in, forever changing not only the way the music was made, but the way it was heard. By putting you in the audience for Dylan's Newport performances from 1963 through that pivotal set in 1965, Academy Award?-winning director Murray Lerner's The Other Side Of The Mirror captures Dylan's metamorphosis from the folk family's best-kept secret to rock's fiercely confrontational poet who would electrify an entire nation and become the voice of his generation.
CHAPTER LIST
All I Really Want To Do (7/24/1965) - afternoon workshop
1963
North Country Blues
With God On Our Side (with Joan Baez)
Talkin' World War III Blues
Who Killed Davey Moore?
Only A Pawn In Their Game
Blowin' In The Wind (with The Freedom Singers, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul and Mary)
1964
Mr. Tambourine Man
Johnny Cash sings Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Joan Baez sings Mary Hamilton as Bob Dylan
It Ain't Me, Babe (with Joan Baez)
With God On Our Side (with Joan Baez)
Chimes Of Freedom
1965
If You Gotta Go, Go Now
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Maggie's Farm (electric)
Like A Rolling Stone (electric)
Mr. Tambourine Man
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Bonus Feature: Interview with director Murray Lerner
Matched only by the Beatles and Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan continues to captivate music and pop culture fans with a seemingly never-ending stream of new and old recordings, books, documentaries, feature films, and more. The Other Side of the Mirror - Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 is a worthy addition to the canon; whether this 83-minute compilation will serve to illuminate the Dylan myth or merely perpetuate it is open to question, but without a doubt there's plenty of fascinating material here. There are nearly 20 songs represented, covering three consecutive years of Dylan appearances at the famed Rhode Island festival. Some have been seen before (most recently in No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese's 2005 Dylan doc, and in Festival, a Newport chronicle released on DVD that same year and directed by Murray Lerner, who is also responsible for The Other Side of the Mirror). Some are from Dylan's daytime "workshops," others from his nighttime main stage performances. Some are complete, others oddly truncated. Some are terrific (like "Chimes of Freedom," 1964), others not so much (cf. the turgid "With God on Our Side" from '63, with Joan Baez adding shrill harmony). In any case, these were the years when Dylan assumed the mantle of "spokesman of a generation," whether he wanted it or not. We see him evolving from the earnest young protest singer of '63 to the visionary artist of the following year who, with the astonishing torrent of rhymes, alliterations, symbols, and brilliant turns of phrase in "Chimes" and "Mr. Tambourine Man," turned the whole notion of songwriting on its ear. And, of course, we also witness Dylan's turn from acoustic to electric guitar, when he was joined onstage by members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (sans Butterfield himself) in 1965; only two songs from that legendary (and, at the time, infamous) gig are seen here, and viewed four decades after the fact, neither "Maggie's Farm" nor "Like a Rolling Stone" is all that special, notwithstanding some searing solo work by guitarist Mike Bloomfield. The DVD package, which includes a bonus interview with Lerner and a nice booklet with liner notes by Tom Piazza, adds to the appeal of what has to rank as a must-have for Dylanologists of every stripe. --Sam Graham
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