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Just saw I'm Not There, the experimental Bob Dylan flick in which many actors play Dylan (including the great Cate Blanchett, who won best actress at Venice). Weird but compelling with lots of Dylan cuts on the soundtrack. Director Todd Haynes told me he was shocked to get the rights. Now I'm sitting in the theater waiting for the start of Trumbo, the doc about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Tonight it's Stuck, based on the true story of the guy who got left on a drugged-out Forth Worth nurse's windshield. Look for a report on that in Wednesday's paper. Over and out. |
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Posted by Frank @ 4:27 PM Tue, Sep 11, 2007
"Weird but compelling" -- a good summary of almost any meaningful Dylan-related project. This one sounds even weirder than most. Looking forward to it.
Posted by Chris Vognar @ 5:49 PM Tue, Sep 11, 2007
Frank - I really shouldn't undersell the "weird" part. One of the Dylans is a young black kid named Woody, who represents the early, self-mythologizing Dylan (Haynes figured the young Dylan was such a self-inventor that an actor who resembled him not at all would make sense, and I kind of like his reasoning). There's also an outlaw Dylan, played by Richard Gere, representing the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid-era Dylan, kind of a hippie western rendition. Dylan hasn't the seen the film yet, but I have a feeling he'll dig it. It's about as unconventional as a Dylan film could possibly get.
Posted by Kip Mooney @ 9:20 AM Wed, Sep 12, 2007
As long as Dylan is staying out of the actual filmmaking aspect of the movie, I'm sure it'll be weird in a good way.