Decades of documentaries about Bob Dylan have proven only one thing: He’s the most unreliable narrator, especially about himself. If the infuriating self-serving mythology of Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese is proof that his history can’t be left to unquestioning fans, then it’s because nothing can beat D.A. Pennebaker’s fly-on-the-wall rockumentary about Dylan’s 1965 UK tour, just before he became too much of a self-aware icon to really be examined. There’s a lot more to the film than the famous opening, with Dylan implacably tossing cards with the lyrics of “Subterranean Homesick Blues” into an alley. – Richard Whittaker
