b"LANDMARKS & LEGENDS GOT THE BLUES: Bob INXSs directorHomages AboundDylan Richard Lowensteinon their Subterranean HomeSick blueS Dylan-inspired Director: D.a. Pennebaker Mediate videoTim Robbins Wall Street Rapfrom the film Bob RobertsW hen D.A. Pennebaker shot Bob Dylan in the alley next to the Savoy Hotel in London for his 1965 documentary Don't Look Back, he didnt know hed essentially created one of the first music videos, one whose influence would span decades and inspire tributes and parodies. Pennebaker recalled shooting this iconic Dylan moment in this interview from 2017. Its at Newcastle steel works. Its no longer there, its been shut down. We were just driving around and Yes. we didnt have permission. And we just said, This is (L to R) Bob Dylan and D.A. Pennebaker where you do it. You guyssee the hole in the fence? Jump through the hole in the fence, stand there with these things, and well play the sound back. And we Did you already know Bob Dylan?We first tried to shoot it in the park and How did it come to be the openingwere actually filming through a cyclone wire fence and Well, when I first met him downtownthe police came up and kind of stopped it. Soscene of Dont Look Back? we just did it five times.by the fifth time, as security at a bar, he and [Dylans manager Bob]we gave up there. And then we went to the It was only later when I was looking atwas coming to tell us to piss off, it just happened. And Weird Al Yankovic Neuwirth were waiting for me. And the firstback where there was nobody there in thethe first cut of the film that I thought to put itall those trucks just started going, and it was just like thing he said was I have this idea of writingalleyway. And then the alleyway was20in. The way the film started when I first didmagic. And we didnt have [a video monitor], so I wasBobout the lines of a song and holding a lot ofyears later, it looks exactly the same. I didnt the rough cut, hes standing in the dressingjust standing at the camera, and we were just rolling, them as the song goes. And I said its aeven set up much. I just did it handheld. We room, I think, he sayshes sort of doingand just rolled the song and still, at the end, I could terrific idea and so we carried, oh god, lotsjust did one take. We hadI had an Nagra the words to the song and as he standssee as we filmed it that John Farris fucked it upofwe got a whole bunch of shirttape player there and I played the tape whichthere, he says, You start off standing. Andeverything was brilliant, and everyone was brilliant, cardboards, I think, that we took with us tohed given me earlier. I played it and heI thought thats a good way to start, whicheveryone stood where they had to go and then we got England. you know, he sort of did it as it played. Andwas kind of a dumb idea but thats what Iback to the editing room and Johns totally out of sync, Oh, so there were cardboards out ofthen I think we may have used a better tapehad to start it. so we had to actually speed up and slow down the film. shirts?although I cant remember. And I think that And then when I looked at the film, itYou can still see it. That wasnt the intention, that was Well, thats what we started with. I thinkthat was pretty much what we used. seemed to me that you were watching a filmjust because John Farris couldnt keep rhythm and got that thats whatwell, I cant rememberYou really didyou just did oneabout somebody and you had no idea whothe words wrong. But with speed ups and slow downs, now what we used but that might well betake? he was. And this was a bada mistakewe actually got it back in sync. something else but it was like them. We didYes. because I think the thing aboutthat weve it all late one night and there were severalWow. all learned about theatrical films is when people doing them. I did some of them but II like the idea of one take. It keepsthe film starts, you knew who exactly who couldnt remember which ones now. people from trying to make it perfect.youre going to see. You always knew. Is it true that Donovan and Joan BaezWhy was Allen Ginsberg there? And its part of the movie experience. So I helped to make them? Well, hes a friend and he had billionsthought, Well, how can I correct this? And Joan and Donovon were there, yeah. of poems I think and hed come back tothen I thought about that thing we did and I And so you get to the alley and youLondon and he knew Dylan, or he andstuck that in front and I never changed it. I basically just set up real quick and putDylan were friends and he and I weremean, I didnt edit it or anything. I just put itBelle & Sebastian the tape recorder down and got yourselffriends, so he was there just because heright in front. And from then on, that was the Like Dylan in the ready, right? was there.way it would start. Movies66MVTMISSUE #1ISSUE #1MVTM67"