镜子的另一面：纽波特民歌艺术节1963~1965 (2007)

　　美国电影《镜子的另一面：纽波特民歌艺术节1963~1965》由Murray Lerner导演，Bob Dylan主演，影片讲述的是：
Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival is one of those epochal moments in rock history that seemingly everyone has heard about but what few people seem to know is that it wasnt some ephemeral event that we only know from word of mouth filmmaker Murray Lerner documented the performances at the Newport Festival for several years running and The Other Side of the Mirror collects footage from the three years Dylan appeared at the celebrated folk gathering allowing us to see Dylans rise through the folk scene for ourselves Watching Lerners documentary whats most remarkable is how much Dylan changed over the course of 36 months the young folkie performing at the afternoon workshop at the side of Joan Baez in 1963 is at once nervy and hesitant singing his wordy tunes while chopping away at his acoustic guitar and energizing the crowd without seeming to know just what hes doing In 1964 Dylan all but owns Newport and he clearly knows it hes the talk of the Festival with Baez and Johnny Cash singing his praises and his songs and his command of the stage is visibly stronger and more confident while his new material including Mr Tambourine Man and It Aint Me Babe sees him moving away from the protest songs that first made his name When the audience demands an encore after Dylans evening set Odetta and Dave Van Ronk were scheduled to follow him Peter Yarrow tries to keep the show moving along while Dylan beams at the crowds adulation like the rock star he was quickly becoming By the time the 1965 Newport Festival rolled around Dylans epochal Like a Rolling Stone was starting to scale the singles charts and the hardcore folk audience was clearly of two minds about his popular and populist success When Dylan Fender Stratocaster in hand performs Maggies Farm backed by Al Kooper Mike Bloomfield and the rhythm section from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band the raucous but harddriving number inspires a curious mixture of enthusiastic cheering and equally emphatic booing and while legend has it that the version of Like a Rolling Stone that followed was a shambles the song cooks despite drummer Sam Lays difficulty in finding the groove though if anything the division of the crowds loyalties is even stronger afterward After these two numbers Dylan and his band leave the stage with Yarrow once again serving as MC citing technical problems if Pete Seeger really pulled the power on Dylan as legend has it theres no sign of it here Dylan returns to the stage with an acoustic sixstring to sing Mr Tambourine Man and Its All Over Now Baby Blue before vanishing into the night without comment While much of the audience at Newport in 1965 wanted the old Dylan back his strong willful performances even on the acoustic stuff makes it obvious that the scrappy semiamateur we saw at the beginning of the movie was gone forever and the ovations suggest more than a few people wanted to see Dylan rock Lerners film tells us a certain amount of what we already knows but it gently debunks a few myths about Dylan during this pivotal moment in his career and his performances are committed and forceful throughout no matter how many times youve read about Dylans Newport shootout of 1965 seeing it is a revelatory experience and Lerner has assembled this archival material with intelligence and taste This is mustsee viewing for anyone interested in Dylan or the folk scene of the 60s