I understand that SBS has won the rights to show Martin Scorsese's landmark Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home in November. SBS will screen the almost four hour documentary, over two weeks on the 8th and 15th of November.

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.

The years between 1961-1966 were inarguably the most artistically fertile for Bob Dylan. The soundtrack, which is part of the Bootleg Series, (Vol. 7) looks quite interesting.

They chart Dylan's evolution from an acoustic one-man band to leader of a great rock and roll outfit that produced Blonde on Blonde. It will be interesting to see the Newport Folk Festival in '65, the moment Dylan went electric, represented in the documentary.

I was impressed with Martin Scorsese The Last Waltz. I consider this to be the best rock concert film made, and it is visually impressive. 'No Direction Home' looks to be more a documentary than a film--more in the style of DA Pennebaker's 1960's Don't Look Back. Or is it? It appears to be a piecing of different archived material together.

The ABC's 7.30 Report has a piece on 'No Direction Home.' Some comments on the documentary can be found over at Floppy Eared Mule.