Film Love presents
Bob Dylan in D. A. Pennebaker’s Dont Look Back
Thursday, July 31, 2025
The Plaza Theatre | 7:30 pm
Introduced by Andy Ditzler
Tickets:
https://www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/film-love-dont-look-back/
On July 31, 2025, Film Love continues its residency at The Plaza Theatre, Atlanta’s legendary independent cinema house, with the classic Dont Look Back – a groundbreaking, intimate 1965 portrait of Bob Dylan.
This remarkable film of Bob Dylan's spring 1965 acoustic tour of England is a landmark documentary and an intimate portrait of the artist at a crucial moment in his career. With mobile sync-sound filmmaking only a recent technological development, DA Pennebaker took his camera and sound recorder into cramped backstage spaces, cars, a tour promoter's office, and other previously inaccessible spaces to capture one fascinating scene after another. Amidst his exhausting pace, Dylan negotiates all manner of incoming attention, including a famously combative encounter with a hapless Time magazine reporter. Entertaining and hugely influential, Dont Look Back reveals much about fame, documentary "reality," and the counterculture as it revolved around Dylan’s uniquely charismatic presence.
Though rejected in its time by distributors and promoted independently by Pennebaker, Dont Look Back was eventually voted one of history’s ten greatest documentary films in a Sight and Sound poll. Film Love is proud to present Dont Look Back in conjunction with D.A. Pennebaker’s centenary.
Dont Look Back (D. A. Pennebaker, 1967) 96 min, digital projection
The Plaza Theatre
1049 Ponce DeLeon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30306 | 470-410-1939
www.plazaatlanta.com
D.A. PENNEBAKER’S DONT LOOK BACK is a Film Love event. The Film Love series provides access to great but rarely seen films, especially important works unavailable on consumer video. Programs are curated and introduced by Andy Ditzler, and feature lively discussion. Through public screenings and events, Film Love preserves the communal viewing experience, provides space for the discussion of film as art, and explores diverse forms of moving image projection and viewing.
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