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The Other Side of the Mirror (2007)
Director: Murray Lerner
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From Time Out Chicago
Per its subtitle, Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963–1965, Mirror documents Dylan’s three Newport performances, as he evolved from a precocious folk wunderkind to an audience-baiting electric experimentalist. Proof that sometimes less is more, Lerner’s razor-sharp concert doc is in its way as provocative an avant-garde exercise as I’m Not There. By considering a flesh-and-blood Dylan (as opposed to Todd Haynes’s contrasted caricatures), Lerner invites us to ponder the man rather than the mystique, editing the concert footage to highlight Dylan’s changing relationship with his fans. And the music, often lost in Haynes’s semiotic gimcrackery, is front and center.Author: Ben Kenigsberg
Time Out Chicago Issue 150: January 10–16, 2008
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