Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” video is getting a new spin from Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and more artists to mark the greatest songwriter of all time’s 60th anniversary as a recording artist.
The new video takes its inspiration from the opening scene from D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 documentary Don’t Look Back, which chronicled Dylan’s 1965 tour in England. It opens on Dylan holding and discarding a series of handwritten cue cards displaying words from the lyrics to “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” and they include humorous misspellings, jokes and puns.
The new video takes its inspiration from the opening scene from D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 documentary Don’t Look Back, which chronicled Dylan’s 1965 tour in England. It opens on Dylan holding and discarding a series of handwritten cue cards displaying words from the lyrics to “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” and they include humorous misspellings, jokes and puns.
- 5/6/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Ode to Cologne
What Wim Wenders did for Cuban jazz in "Buena Vista Social Club", he does for German rock 'n' roll in "Ode to Cologne".
This highly imaginative film celebrates BAP, a Cologne rock band legendary in Germany but nearly unknown elsewhere. Instead of making a concert film, Wenders uses footage and reminiscences by BAP's singer-songwriter, Wolfgang Niedecken, to create a filmic journey through two decades of German history and music.
While certain of success in Germany, where it gets released March 7, "Ode" could make in-roads elsewhere despite the band's obscurity outside German-speaking territories. The music is cool, and Wenders' filmmaking is even better.
In an aging movie house before, during and after a BAP concert, the projectionist shows reel after reel of old concerts and interviews. Niedecken himself looks back at the band he helped create. He recalls his admiration as a kid for The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and the Kinks. He then decides to write songs in his native Kolsch, a dialect not understood outside of Cologne. Despite this fact, they become nationwide hits.
A political band -- it was among the first to stage protests against neo-Nazism in Germany -- BAP's songs and lyrics reflect the evolution of the country during the past two decades, before and after reunification. "Viel passiert" -- "A lot has happened" -- Niedecken notes.
In creating this collage of music, history and images of modern Germany, Wenders has put together a fascinating portrait of a band and a kind of folk rock that operates in its own cocoon within Western pop music traditions.
ODE TO COLOGNE
Ottfilm
Producer: Olaf Wicke
Screenwriter-director: Wim Wenders
Director of photography: Phedon Papamichael
Music: BAP
Editor: Mauritz Laube
Color and black & white/stereo
Running time -- 101 minutes
No MPAA rating...
This highly imaginative film celebrates BAP, a Cologne rock band legendary in Germany but nearly unknown elsewhere. Instead of making a concert film, Wenders uses footage and reminiscences by BAP's singer-songwriter, Wolfgang Niedecken, to create a filmic journey through two decades of German history and music.
While certain of success in Germany, where it gets released March 7, "Ode" could make in-roads elsewhere despite the band's obscurity outside German-speaking territories. The music is cool, and Wenders' filmmaking is even better.
In an aging movie house before, during and after a BAP concert, the projectionist shows reel after reel of old concerts and interviews. Niedecken himself looks back at the band he helped create. He recalls his admiration as a kid for The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and the Kinks. He then decides to write songs in his native Kolsch, a dialect not understood outside of Cologne. Despite this fact, they become nationwide hits.
A political band -- it was among the first to stage protests against neo-Nazism in Germany -- BAP's songs and lyrics reflect the evolution of the country during the past two decades, before and after reunification. "Viel passiert" -- "A lot has happened" -- Niedecken notes.
In creating this collage of music, history and images of modern Germany, Wenders has put together a fascinating portrait of a band and a kind of folk rock that operates in its own cocoon within Western pop music traditions.
ODE TO COLOGNE
Ottfilm
Producer: Olaf Wicke
Screenwriter-director: Wim Wenders
Director of photography: Phedon Papamichael
Music: BAP
Editor: Mauritz Laube
Color and black & white/stereo
Running time -- 101 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/15/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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