Take a look back at D.A. Pennebaker's many music movies, from ‘Dont Look Back’ to Depeche Mode:
was our favorite film adventure,” Pennebaker and longtime partner Chris Hegedus wrote on their website.
Leaving aside shorts and music videos, here’s a list of his rock-related movies , most of them co-directed by Hegedus:Come for what is arguably the first and still greatest conceptual rock music video of all time — the cue-card-tossing “Subterranean Homesick Blues” — and stay for the newly electric Dylan at his most exalted, arrogant and impossibly charming . “As far as I’m concerned, it was never meant to be a documentary,” said Pennebaker. “I don’t like them much.
A sort-of sequel to “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” — or its soundtrack, anyway. When T Bone Burnett reassembled most of the key roots-music talent that made the album an unexpected blockbuster success for a concert at Nashville’s Ryman, Pennebaker was there to film Ralph Stanley, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris and the rest. “If you have any affection at all for traditional American music, the movie is pretty close to heaven,” wrote A.O. Scott in the New York Times.
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