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--"Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back" (1967): Pioneering filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker set the standard for the rock documentary with this classic, behind-the-scenes look at Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour of England. This was impish 23-year-old Dylan before he famously went electric, and Pennebaker depicts this fortuitous moment of flux with grainy, intimate, black-and-white camerawork. The images he captured here became endlessly copied and parodied, from the 1987 INXS video for "Mediate," in which the band members toss away cue cards the way Dylan does with "Subterranean Homesick Blues," to "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," which parodies this time in Dylan's life with dead-on hilarity. The rough-hewn aesthetic is a thing of restless beauty. --"Stop Making Sense" (1984): One of the coolest concert films ever, it's probably also my favorite Jonathan Demme film; the way he structures it is just mesmerizing. "Stop Making Sense" begins on a stage with only lead singer David Byrne singing "Psycho Killer" and playing a guitar with a boom box on the floor behind him. And then song by song, piece by piece, the place builds and fills up until the whole stage is full with the complete band, other musicians and an array of instruments. The process happened right before your eyes but it was so subtle and deliberate, you may not even have noticed it. It's a great example of a band being playful and inventive rather than self-serious. And of course, the music is great. ___ Think of any other examples? Share them with AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire through Twitter: http://twitter.com/christylemire.
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