No Direction Home
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- ''"No Direction Home" is also the name of an episode of War of the Worlds.
No Direction Home is a documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on American popular music and culture of the 20th century. The film does not cover Dylan's entire career; rather, it focuses on his beginnings, his rise to fame in the 1960s, his transformation from an acoustic guitar-based musician and peformer to an electric guitar-influenced sound and his "retirement" from touring and playing folk festivals in the late 1960s.
The film was first presented on television in both the United States (as part of the PBS American Masters series) and the United Kingdom (as part of the BBC Two Arena series) on September 26–27 2005. A DVD version of the film and accompanying soundtrack album () were released that same month.
No Direction Home received a Peabody Award in 2006.
The title of the film is borrowed from the title of Robert Shelton's 1986 classic biography of Dylan, which in turn was taken from the lyric of the Dylan song, "Like a Rolling Stone", on the Highway 61 Revisited album.
The film also showcases important influences on Dylan, including:
- John Jacob Niles
- Odetta
- Woody Guthrie
- The Clancy Brothers
- Joan Baez
- Allen Ginsberg
- Pete Seeger
- Dave Van Ronk
- Suze Rotolo
Shelton biography
- No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, Robert Shelton, 1986, Da Capo Press reprint 2003, ISBN 0306812878
External links
- [Review by Lucas Stensland]
- [No Direction Home] at bbc.co.uk.
- ["Master of Evasion" by Said Shirazi] A review of the documentary
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