This revelatory documentary brings together Dylan appearances at the Newport Folk Festival from 1963, '64 and '65. Though the film's most anticipated moment may be the legendary booing at his electric set in '65, Dylan's performance of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" sounds "less penitential than triumphant." (NY Times) The sound mix is crisp, the black-and-white photography is lovely, and the songs, above all, can be heard in all their earnest, enigmatic glory, performed by an artist whose gifts are at once mysterious and self-evident. "In the guise of a straightforward series of concert performances, Lerner has crafted a canny, revelatory documentary about how the artist seized the day...the transition from the wider, calmer shots of the folk years to the intense intimacy of the 1965 close-ups conveys the inner truth of the historic moment." (New Yorker) Video projection.
2007, b&w, 1 hour 23 minutes, USA