Documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker still gets a laugh from quoting an early review of“Dont Look Back,” his groundbreaking look at Bob Dylan’s 1965 last solo acoustic tour of England.
“We’re not going to hear much about this guy or this film in 50 years,” he recalled during a recent screening in Manhattan to help launch an exhibit of new photographs made directly from the film’s negative.
Arthouse 18 proprietor Joseph Baldassare used a restored 16-millimeter print to create stills capturing iconic moments in the film, such as the opening sequence showing Dylan flipping large cards with the lyrics of “Subterranean Homesick Blues” in an alley behind London’s Savoy Hotel.