Several actors portray legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan at different stages in his personal life and career. In 1959 a guitar-strumming youth (Marcus Carl Franklin) rides the rails, calling himself ''Guthrie.'' Then a man named Jack (Christian Bale) emerges in New York's Greenwich Village, followed by Robbie (Heath Ledger), Jude (Cate Blanchett) and other personalities.
Even as they track their subjects' adventures in drug addiction, doomed relationships and self-destruction, Hollywood movies about musicians tend to be hagiographies: the artist as martyr to his talent. Like comic book superhero movies, they peg that talent to a defining moment of pain, then sit back and watch it metastasize. Music biopics burnish the image, buff the icon, vacuum around the base of the legend as they simultaneously revere and loathe that mysterious force.
Todd Haynes' I'm Not There is a film about Bob Dylan, but it's as far away from a movie like Ray or Walk the Line as it can be and still be considered an example of the same genr...
Though Bob Dylan, the subject of I'm Not There (* * out of four), is an undeniable enigma, this unconventional film does little to illuminate him. And it's not nearly as enjoyable as one of his rambling, meditative songs, though perhaps it is aspiring to be the cinematic equivalent. Give me Tangled Up in Blue any day over this incoherent, tangled trip.
Director and co-writer Todd Haynes is a prodigiously talented filmmaker whose previous works show an impressive skill and range (Far From Heaven, Safe). But in this pseudo-biography, he gets bogged down in an unusual concept that obfuscates rather than clarifies the iconic songwriter.
The con...
I'm Not There Todd Haynes, the director of Velvet Goldmine and Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, returns to musician biopics with a kaleidoscopic reimagining of the life and times of Bob Dylan
In the 1965 DA Pennebaker documentary Don't Look Back Bob Dylan explains to a 'Time' magazine journalist that 'the truth is a collage of pictures'. During the film, made just before he went 'electric', Dylan is anti-matter - in the process of destroying himself and those around him so he can emerge entirely changed. He meets, is fascinated by and repelled further by the English version of him, Donovan.
In executing his image overhaul Dylan is impish, playfully dismantling...
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Well, I liked some parts, but why does this woman have to say .. lol what she say again, nothing much about Bob Dylan, I dont know. And this billy the kid, and that other kid, grr. Tho Bob Dylan is great.
Eh i had alot to say but i think i'll shorten it down to this;
This movie is not really something that tells you much about Dylan to be honest it was kind of confusing at times, and i can highley recommend that everyone watch` "No dirrection home" that is the best story about Dylan..
But I could not get over how slow the movie was and how the autopic "The Doors" was 10x better. Not only that, but I could not get over the fact that Kate Blanchett played Bob Dylan..she looked like him I can not lie, but I just could not get her "Lord of the Rings" or "The Gift" out of my head.
Anywho the movie quality is great and the sound is awesome also, but they have to speed up the pace a bit in this one.
