Which is better? Dont Look Back / No Direction Home

They are both entirely different films. No Direction home just happens to use footage from Don't Look Back. I get different things from the two, but both are amazing. Get Don't Look Back if you want the myth of Dylan. Get No Direction Home if you want the man.

For me the better film is without a doubt Dont Look Back, but Dylan comes off a bit acidic. His character is portrayed better in No Direction Home.

Get Don't Look Back for behind the scenes Dylan during the concert tour.
Get No Direction Home for a better look at what and who Dylan was (in the time period).

Considering the whole package: Don't Look Back is a film. No Direction Home is a collection of glimpses and snippets.

both are great, but if I had to choose, I'd go for No Direction Home- it's more epic, plus it's Scorsese. But you can't go wrong with Don't Look Back as a pure time capsule of Dylan on the precipice of his folk-to-rock days (and it actually works *better* in hindsight of No Direction Home, if that makes sense, that he's not so much rude and prick-like but just sort of in a loop of media hype and buzz).



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The formats of the two films are completely different, so in some ways it's difficult to compare them. While I've enjoyed NDH very much for the great footage it collects in one place, Don't Look Back is by far my favorite; it is I guess what would be called a "pure" documentary in that it is all footage with no narration and no on-camera interviews like in NDH. And the footage is just genius and needs no further adornment:

Highlights include but are not limited to:

- Dylan bawling out a drunken reveler in his hotel room
- Dylan bawling out an interviewer from "Time" magazine
- Dylan mind-screwing a self-proclaimed "science student"
- Dylan being congratulated by the high-sheriff's lady and her sons
- Dylan inviting an adorable Scouse fan up to his hotel room and humoring her
- Baez playing a lovely version of "Percy's Song" in Dylan's hotel room
- Grossman playing hardball on Dylan's TV appearances in a local promoter's office
- Dylan song-dueling with Donovan in his hotel room

(Speaking of Donovan, that's the one aspect of the film that always makes me squirm... because the two artists never should have been compared to each other and I think that Donovan gets a real bum portrayal... in their "dueling songs" scene it's such an unfair fight: Donovan plays the sweet but lyrically uninspired "To Sing For You" that is in no way representative of his talent, and Dylan totally delivers a knock-out punch with It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, which, it goes without saying, is the bomb. I'm a fan of both guys, so I always have a problem with the match-up. Still, it makes for great film so I'm not complaining too much...)

You get more for the money with the new "Dont Look Back" delux set imho. I love NDH but there's a lot of influences and such with no Bob content that kinda gets in the way...but is relevant to his story.

Meh, they're not really comparable, you SHOULD have them both. Don't Look Back is an experience, it's a trip, it's a moment captured in time, it's a movie. No Direction Home is very much a documentary. Sprawling, epic, in depth. I'd say you could get plenty from watching them in either order.

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