No Direction Home

Two American masters meet, Bob Dylan and Marty Scorsese, with appropriately epic results. This 3 1/2 hour documentary takes the generational icon up to his motorcycle accident in 1966, at age 25. What would it take to cover the subsequent forty years? I’d be eager to find out. I have friends who expressed impatience with the pace of this piece, but pace them, I happily took the whole ride, down memory lane and into the man of that moment -- a cocky kid and musical sponge with an amazing verbal facility, who bemusedly became the voice of a generation. There’s so much going on here -- the music, the history, the American fable of celebrity -- it seems more inexhaustible than exhaustive or exhausting. (2005, dvd, n.) *7+*