Word is that Bob Dylan’s four-hour 1978 film Renaldo & Clara may soon be released on DVD.
The film had a short theatre run in the late ‘70s but has not been seen since due to the scathing response at the time.
Levi Asher at litkicks.com claims critics declared the four-hour surrealist art film “pretentious, incomprehensible and painfully long”.
The film stars Dylan as Renaldo, his then-wife Sara as Clara, and friend Ronnie Howard in the role of... Bob Dylan.
Joan Baez and Harry Dean Stanton also starred, and contributions to the film were also sought from counterculture icons Allen Ginsberg and Sam Shepard.
Parts of the film, predominantly live footage, have appeared on various bonus sections of Dylan DVDs but this would be the first time the full movie would be available to watch at home.
Apparently the news came from someone working on the conversion from analogue to digital, so it’s by no means official, but it’s tantalising all the same.
