Monthly Archives: December 2005

Greil Marcus didn’t like Martin Scorcese’s “No Direction Home” and he says so in great detail. I did like it; was fascinated, in fact, so I’ll say so, in detail. First, I have to address two statements made in the opening paragraph of the essay: “It allows, say, the Irish folksinger Liam Clancy, telling stories of Dylan in Greenwich Village, to contradict Dylan telling his own stories about the same thing; the film contradicts itself.” Continue reading →