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d.a. pennebaker

Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali Are Gods
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Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali Are Gods

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Oliver Stevens
/ 20 May 2025

Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali are stars, prophets, liberators, kings, and gods, forever immortalized in the mythology of documentary filmmaking.

Bob Dylan Deserves Another Look Back
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Bob Dylan Deserves Another Look Back

By
Evan Sawdey
/ 26 January 2016
D.A. Pennebaker's Dylan documentary, Dont Look Back, still feels amazingly fresh and experimental.
Do Look Back: A Baker’s Dozen for Your Swinging ’60s Film Fest
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Do Look Back: A Baker’s Dozen for Your Swinging ’60s Film Fest

By
Michael Barrett
/ 4 January 2016
Are you in the mood to be retro-hip? Do you get the urge to be mod and pop, '60s style? Sure you do.
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The Cost of Success: When Lives Intersect With Fame

By
Bill See
/ 25 March 2012
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‘Kings of Pastry’ Is Certainly Drool-worthy, but It Leaves You Wanting More

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Tomas Hachard
/ 27 February 2011
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Little Richard Live at the Toronto Peace Festival, 1969

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Stuart Henderson
/ 26 March 2009
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Full Frame 1: Enlightenment Sought in Darkened Theatres

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PopMatters Staff
/ 26 April 2007
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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1973)

By
Elbert Ventura
/ 30 August 2002

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