What Pennebaker records is not Bob Dylan as he really is, whatever that means, but rather how Bob Dylan responds to the role imposed on him by the camera. Compared to most public figures of his time, Dylan responds very well indeed.

Whatever you think about Bob Dylan will probably be confirmed by [Don't Look Back]. It is a fascinating progress which stays just far enough away from idolatry to preserve a reasonably clear vision.

The questioners spend much of the 90 minutes trying to get Dylan to come up with some quotable philosophy-of-life statements in keeping with his lyrics, but the answers, my friend, are blowin' in the wind.

The boyish Bob is there with folk legend Joan Baez, Alan Price, Marianne Faithfull, and Donovan, then he turns into surly Dylan tearing into journalists and playing the obtuse artist.