Journey Through the Past

At first glance, you might dismiss Journey Through the Past as just another sci-fi quickie. Please DON'T do that. This 75-minute, R-rated musical documentary is a probing portrait of rock star Neil Young. The film begins in 1966, when Young was still with Buffalo Springfield, and concludes in "the ...more

When Journey Through the Past came out in 1972, Neil Young's commercial stock couldn't have been any higher, as he was coming off both a #1 album (Harvest) and a #1 single ("Heart of Gold"). Even the most rabid Young fan, however, would have to admit that this self-directed debut film is at best a flawed experiment, and at worst something of a disaster. The backers of this film were likely hoping for something of a conventional rock documentary, mixing performance footage with backstage scenes ...more