(5.485 points | 2 votes)
Director: Zia Anger
Release: 2016
Biggest Fan: mileswide (#24)
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
D.A. Pennebaker: "I don’t have any of [the cards] now. They got blown all over London, when we tried to do it on the roof ... When we shot it, we played [the song] on a little Nagra that we had sitting on the ground" ... "We went out and we tried to do it first in the garden back of the hotel and a cop came up and was very upset that we were doing it, was tapping me on the shoulder and I was trying to get rid of him. We said, 'This isn’t going to work.'" "Then we decided to do it in the back alley, where there were no cops. For some reason, everybody got dressed up the next day, and we tried to do one up on the roof. And that’s when the wind blew all of the cards away, so I don’t think we ever got through it. Nobody really thought anything about it. I almost didn’t even put it in the film until it was almost released.
When I was looking at the [original opening], we had a pretty long print of it made, and I thought, 'That’s not going to work, because nobody knows who the hell he is ... Nobody’s ever heard of him really. He’s got to do something that they’ll never forget.' So I stuck 'Subterranean' on the front of the film, and that was it."