Film Doc Great D.A. Pennebaker

d.a. pennebaker, who died last week at 94, had a vérité gaze that was endlessly fluid and inquiring, a quality that’s there from his first film,“daybreak Express” (1953). Yet if you want to know what defined Pennebaker’s existential majesty as a filmmaker, it’s this: In “Dont Look Back,” shot during Bob Dylan’s 1965 concert tour of England, we’re immersed in the backroom swirl caught by Pennebaker’s camera, but at the center of the storm is Dylan himself, whom the film sees in such wily layers that it attains the richness of a novel. And from that moment on, that’s what a documentary could be. —Owen Gleiberman

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