Portrait of an artist as a young man. Roughly chronological, using archival footage intercut with recent interviews, a story takes shape of Bob Dylan's (b. 1941) coming of age from 1961 to 1966 as a singer, songwriter, performer, and star. He takes from others: singing styles, chord changes, and rare records. He keeps moving: on stage, around New York City and on tour, from Suze Rotolo to Joan Baez and on, from songs of topical witness to songs of raucous independence, from folk to rock. He drops the past. He refuses, usually with humor and charm, to be simplified, classified, categorized, or finalized: always becoming, we see a shapeshifter on a journey with no direction home.

Starring:

Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, DA Pennebaker, Dave Van Ronk, Joan Baez, John F Kennedy, John Hammond, Johnny Cash, Martin Luther King, Martin Scorsese, Mavis Staples, Mickey Jones, Mitch Miller, Ossie Davis, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Woody Guthrie

Genre:

Documentary, Music, Biography