Land of Look Behind
1982 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 119 VOTES · DIR. Alan Greenberg
Overview
There has never been a documentary like "Land of Look Behind". Relatively unknown due to poor distribution and New York Film Festival skullduggery, this breathtaking film presents a unique epic vision with quasi-dramatic elements and cinematographic wizardry. The non-reggae original soundtrack is outstanding, as is the reggae music of Bob Marley and Gregory Isaacs. The great documentary filmmaker Werner Herzog has called "Look Behind" the non-fiction film that has influenced him most over the last fifteen years. Indeed, this film's peers are the best of Herzog, Bunuel's "Land Without Bread", Flaherty's "Nanook" and Leacock-Pennebaker's "Louisiana Story". With thoughtful viewing, one will see this moving documentary actually end with a lovely little dream sequence. No American has come close to making a film this ingenious in the last thirty years.
Dialogue Timeline — 544 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:59 Look if you see anything a-jump out there
00:06:22 That's why it's called If-Me-No-Call-You-No- Come and If-Me-No-Send-You-No-Come
00:07:57 You hear a mother bawl a yard, boy. Belly-a-burn you
00:12:33 I & I fit-of-fit. I & I live-of-live as Selassie I live
00:15:37 Ethiopia signify the whole continent of Africa
00:17:52 which man made
00:20:35 ...shall be lifted up above men, for men are a failure in the Almighty's sight
00:25:47 And he would keep on playing the reggae music. He never stopped smoking spliffs
00:29:39 They say the world is in sympathy. They say we love Bob Marley!
00:43:56 All my friends are Negroes, niggers, Negrophiles
00:45:36 It's a certain consciousness within
00:47:14 Negro black, but Negroland? No.
00:49:52 ...about the youth that I breed
00:51:32 That's why they understand it's a man's world for years...
00:54:18 Not just a little rocky-rocky something
00:56:18 Reggae music must go on
00:58:29 We don't get no house to sit and discuss our rights. No resting place...
01:01:35 And the Father just takes control
01:05:04 I would rather to live poor and clean
01:09:50 What's your name, man?
01:13:23 it is an African outpost in the West
01:19:46 Give thanks and praise every time to each I everyone. Which is Jah! Rastafari!
01:23:01 Because this is the biggest forest in the known Jamaica. . .
01:25:55 Right. It takes away the bumps