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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

FILMING DYLAN | From Ray Padgett’s Flagging Down the Double Es Newsletter

 

Director Michael Borofsky Talks Filming Bob Dylan in the '90s

Supper Club, "Not Dark Yet," No Direction Home, a lost "Love Sick" video and more

Dylan at the Supper Club with one of Borofsky’s cameramen

For much of the 1990s, Michael Borofsky was Bob Dylan’s go-to director. He filmed Dylan on stage: the famous Supper Club shows, a bunch of the Never Ending Tour, advising on MTV Unplugged and Woodstock ‘94. He filmed music videos: the Time Out of Mind duo of “Not Dark Yet” and a never-seen “Love Sick.” He even did a lot of the initial interview filming for No Direction Home before Martin Scorsese entered the picture.

Much of that work is footage long beloved by Dylan fans. But some has never been seen, notably most of the Supper Club shows and the “Love Sick” music video (which involved a staged fight between Bob and Tony Garnier). Borofsky recently took time to walk me through all his work for Dylan, both the videos we can see for ourselves and the ones that remain locked in the vaults. Since it’s a longer interview, I’ve split our conversation up roughly by project, but the organization is fairly loose.

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