No Direction Home: Bob Dylan & The Man with the Golden Arm

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan was really neat. Too much focus on his pre-music career. However, the mid-60s stuff was absolutely amazing. Even though I'd seen a lot of it in Don't Look Back, and heard some of the music on the previous Bootleg Series. There were some really neat scenes, like with Dylan going over the signs at the pet store and him playing at the March on Washington. Plus, there were some self-serving interviews with some of the people. Dylan, himself, wasn't too biased at all, which was nice, plus he was interesting and charming. Good for him.

The Man with the Golden Arm had a great performance by Frank Sinatra, and a good anti-Hays code plot, even if it still was a typical Hollywood film in almost everything about it except for the heroin plot. Even had the evil wife that drove the hero into the arms of another woman. Not nearly as flashy as the current string of drug movies, but it isn't as wussy as most 50s movies. And Otto Preminger again gets an interesting opening credit sequence from Saul Bass, who did a lot of the best title sequences of the 50s and 60s.