While Twyla Tharp's The Times They Are A-Changin' desecrates the legacy of Bob Dylan nightly on Broadway, you could probably use a reminder that it is possible to pay tribute to an iconic musical figure without resorting to kitsch. Film director Bennett Miller (Capote) creates a video for "When The Deal Goes Down" that plays like a compilation of summer vacation home movies that could have been pulled from almost any suburban attic — so long as it was the home of actress Scarlett Johansson. The prevailing mood is nostalgia; a feeling which is reinforced by references to various aspects of the Dylan lore: His childhood in Minnesota, shots of such influential works as the Woody Guthrie autobiography Bound For Glory and the Hank Williams album Wanderin' Around, and even Coney Island, which Guthrie called home. -- watch "When The Deal Goes Down"
Bob Dylan "When The Deal Goes Down" (Columbia)
Bennett Miller, director | Nina Shiffman, producer | Hungry Man , production co | Adam Kimmel , DP | Hank Corwin, editor
