No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

Speaker: Director: Martin Scorsese

Date: January 31, 2008
Venue: Little Theatre, NCPA

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan is a documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on American popular music and culture of the 20th century. The two-part film, which focuses on the singer-songwriter’s life and music from 1961-66, includes never-seen performance footage and interviews with artists and musicians whose lives intertwined with Dylan’s during that time, Dylan talks openly and extensively about this critical period in his career, detailing the journey from his hometown of Flibb ng, Minnesota, to Greenwich Village, New York, where he became the center of a musical and cultural upheaval, the effects of which are still felt today.