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• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: Unknown (Dolby Stereo (Analog)), English (Stereo)
• Subtitles: None
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Chrome Dreams
• DVD Release Date: August 29, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000AQQHRO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,302 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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BOB DYLAN:1966-1978 AFTER THE CRASH - DVD Movie

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars After The Crash - a Polite Crash, July 3, 2007

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LPL (fromtheboot) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bob Dylan: 1966-1978 - After the Crash (DVD)

This DVD project is disappointing. It claims "rare historic footage," which suggests performance footage. There are only a few clips of concert performances and they are only seconds-long and are available on YouTube. While having only explored Dylan's life and music for less than a year through a few books, some albums and obvious internet searches, I found that "After the Crash" offered little that I didn't already know. Most information seemed to have been taken directly from Dylan's "Chronicles" and one or two biographies.

Nigel Williamson offered nothing of value as a critic of Dylan's work. Certain other critical opinions lacked value and depth.

On the positive side: Clinton Heylin, as critic, offered perspective on ratings of Dylan's albums of this period. The remarks of Al Aronowitz were helpful in adding insight to this prolific songwriting period, as he spoke of Sara Dylan's calming presence on her husband and her "queenly" charisma. This DVD would be nothing at all without the interviews of Rob Stoner and Scarlet Rivera - on the Rolling Thunder Revue and the album, "Desire".

Oh - A. J. Weberman is not as disgusting as I thought he was. Just plain eccentric. His taped conversation with Dylan is priceless because, from it, we hear Dylan as a very nice person, indeed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lot Better Than I Though It Would Be, October 8, 2010

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Andre S. Grindle "Andre' Grindle" (Brewer Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bob Dylan: 1966-1978 - After the Crash (DVD)

Having been innundated with all of the history of Bob Dylan in his 60's era,which many view as a major peak of his impact musically and culturally this documentary helped more obviously fill in some of the gaps. While not a very lavish production without the presense of a great deal of unseen footage and relying on photographs of this era this gathers many critics,writers and musicians who either were familiar or worked with Dylan during this period for not only insights into each one of his late 60's/early 70's albums but bits of inside info on his life and career during the time period. In the beginning Dylan is involved in a motorcyle accident in 1966 just as one of his signiture albums Blonde on Blonde is released and begins a year long period of seclusion and self reflection. Having gone from a culturally relevant folk singer/songwriter to a musically influential folk/rock singer-songwriter in half a decades time Dylan finished off the 60's releasing music that followers of either of his earlier styles found somewhat puzzling. This does an excellent job at illustrating this time as Dylan marries,begins to raise a family and begins to live the closest he came to a jetset life thus far:splitting time between his different homes and touring very consistantly. Not only does he get his first role in a major film during this time but makes one of his own,only to have to totally panned. Also he wound up gaining the undesired attention of an obsessive journelist/fan who went as far as picking through Dylan's garbage to attempt to decode "secret Messages" in Dylan's lyrics. The man himself is interviewed and is apolojectic and humble following a physical confrontation with Dylan in the mid 70's. His mid 70's comeback and the Rolling Thunder tours are chronicled extremely well here as well as the circumstances surround his recording of his two defining 70's releases Blood on the Tracks and Desire. It also helps you understand how his constantly changing persona during this period helped gradually put something of a conclusion to the somewhat obsessive culturally mythology that had been built around him during his first decade of musical output. This doesn't attempt to draw any particular conclusion on Dylan's intent necessarily but present the facts and a lot of the truths on what happened to him during this period and does so with a lot of well researched detail.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost accomplishes exactly what it seeks to., October 13, 2011

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Austin Reader - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bob Dylan: 1966-1978 - After the Crash (DVD)

This is the second Dylan documentary in the series produced by UK-based Chrome Dreams. This one is far superior to the first ("Tales from a Golden Age" - which covers the same period, but certainly not as well, as "No Direction Home"). It suffers only in comparison to third in the series, "Both Ends of the Rainbow," which was filmed later, had better filming techniques, and had access to additional information that was simply not present at the time that the first two films were made.

The interviews in this second film were obviously done at the time of the first. However, this film benefits from access to additional music performances than "Tales from a Golden Age." Because the producers seemed to have had no access to the album cuts of the songs, the performances are essentially limited to televised live versions, with notations that the "original version" was on this or that album. That said, these alternative versions are fascinating in and of themselves.

The documentary covers, in quite a good depth, a period in Dylan's biography much less known than the period prior to the crash. The film also benefits, greatly, by the involvement of Dylan's "Desire" collaborator, Jacques Levy. His interview was accomplished shortly before Mr. Levy's death and the closing credits acknowledge him. Missing from the documentary are many other people who actually were working with Dylan at the time, with the notable exceptions of Scarlet Rivera and Rob Stoner.

The film offers some fascinating insights into the albums and songs. I would not say that I agree with all of the interviewees about the quality of one or another album. Having come to appreciate Dylan much more recently, I have had the advantage of looking at his work as a whole, all at once, and with access to The Bootleg Series, as well. Thus, I do not have the visceral reaction to some of the albums that others have. Indeed, I have somewhat of soft spot for "Self Portrait." Indeed, if "Self Portrait" were marketed as "The Bootleg Series, vol. ½," which it essentially is, I think that the critical appraisement would be very different.

This documentary features extensive involvement by Clinton Heylin. This film closes with the same statement by Mr. Heylin that opens "Both Ends of the Rainbow," which nicely ties the two films together. Mr. Heylin is, himself, a very controversial figure among Dylan critics. That said, I appreciate Mr. Heylin's own critical contributions and find his lack of worship of Dylan refreshing.

It is important to understand that this is a documentary about the process of the making of Dylan's music, the critical response to it at the time of its release, and a reassessment of it with the passage of time. The film touches on Dylan's biography only to the extent that his biography touches on the songs themselves. If that is what you are looking for, then you will be well pleased with this film. If you are looking for something else, however, then you should look elsewhere.