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GoooooooooooooooooooooooooD....
Posted jun 18, 2008 6:29 pm pt
I could not take my eyes of the screen, this picture is just amazing.
The Director Todd Haynes, and everyone else in the team, has done a tremendous job putting this film together. To split up Dylan’s persona, and cast six...
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I could not take my eyes of the screen, this picture is just amazing.
The Director Todd Haynes, and everyone else in the team, has done a tremendous job putting this film together. To split up Dylan’s persona, and cast six different people to play him was genius; especially to cast Cate Blanchett and Marcus Carl Franklin, Why cast a woman and a black kid to be Bob? I don’t know but the experiment works. This movie is weird and strange, in the most awesome way, for example all of a sudden you can see a giraffe in the town, or a tarantella projected on the wall. The one part in the movie that feels a little out of place, is Richard Geres part as Billy the Kid.
Cate Blanchett does a truly spectacular performance. I keep forgetting that it's her. The way she moves, talks.... Act, it's one of the best things I've ever seen in my life. With this part she proves that she can do anything. You can even find her entire performance assembled in to five parts on the official website. [imnotthere-movie.com]
I truly recommend running to the nearest cinema showing this movie. You won't be disappointed.
Posted mar 4, 2008 4:17 am pt
This was the BEST movie I've ever seen!! And Cate Blanchett gave the best performance I've ever seen!! I recommend this film to everyone who loves rock 'n' roll.
Posted feb 21, 2008 6:16 pm pt
Like Dylan himself, I'm Not There is sometimes frustrating and vague. Also, it's rather brilliant and entertaining. I knew that there were six actors playing variations of Dylan, and I know the basic summary of their scenes but I didn't know it...
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Like Dylan himself, I'm Not There is sometimes frustrating and vague. Also, it's rather brilliant and entertaining. I knew that there were six actors playing variations of Dylan, and I know the basic summary of their scenes but I didn't know it was going to be jumbled as it was, not simple episodes segueing into each other but bits and pieces of each segment flowing back and forth. Cate Blanchett, as most critics will you tell you, is amazing, effortlessly portraying Dylan in the most pivotal time in his life: hopped up on speed, partying with the uber hip in London, becoming a bona fide pop star for the first time and being hounded by public expectations of his music and motivations. That said, part of the reason Cate may get the most attention is that she probably has the most screen time of the six actors and the '66 World Tour Dylan is the most famous and flamboyant. Heath Ledger is excellent in an unfortunately vague and underutilized role as Robbie Clark, a movie star who plays "Jack Rollins" the early 60s protest era Dylan in a corny biopic, and whose marriage to a French painter (the great Charlotte Gainsbourg) mirrors Dylan's to Sara Lownds. To cover the other actors: 13 year old African American Marcus Carl Franklin is a great newcomer, playing a variation of the Dylan before he came to Greenwich Village and is appropriately called Woody. Christian Bale plays both the protest Dylan and his born again Christian self. The Bale scenes are shown in a "mockumentary" with old folkies and friends reminiscing on "Jack's" career (Julianne Moore is spot on as a Joan Baez type). Ben Wishaw plays Arthur Rimbaud, named after the poet Dylan admired who answers in a typical cryptic fashion reporters' questions and provides a loose narration throughout the movie. Finally, Richard Gere plays "Billy" who's supposed to represent the Dylan who went into hiding after his motorcycle crash, it is shown in a wild west fashion, with Billy living in a backwards town filled with cowboys, circus freaks and losers. The movie is not for everyone and is far from perfect, but it's an often brilliant, if vague, insight into Dylan and is one of the best films about the pitfalls of being labeled as an artist and how it made Dylan want to change his persona, not to suit his audience and certainly not journalists but himself.
Posted dec 19, 2007 7:38 am pt
Like Dylan himself, I'm Not There is sometimes frustrating and vague. Also, it's rather brilliant and entertaining. I knew that there were six actors playing variations of Dylan, and I know the basic summary of their scenes but I didn't know it...
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Like Dylan himself, I'm Not There is sometimes frustrating and vague. Also, it's rather brilliant and entertaining. I knew that there were six actors playing variations of Dylan, and I know the basic summary of their scenes but I didn't know it was going to be jumbled as it was, not simple episodes segueing into each other but bits and pieces of each segment flowing back and forth. Cate Blanchett, as most critics will you tell you, is amazing, effortlessly portraying Dylan in the most pivotal time in his life: hopped up on speed, partying with the uber hip in London, becoming a bona fide pop star for the first time and being hounded by public expectations of his music and motivations. That said, part of the reason Cate may get the most attention is that she probably has the most screen time of the six actors and the '66 World Tour Dylan is the most famous and flamboyant. Heath Ledger is excellent in an unfortunately vague and underutilized role as Robbie Clark, a movie star who plays "Jack Rollins" the early 60s protest era Dylan in a corny biopic, and whose marriage to a French painter (the great Charlotte Gainsbourg) mirrors Dylan's to Sara Lownds. To cover the other actors: 13 year old African American Marcus Carl Franklin is a great newcomer, playing a variation of the Dylan before he came to Greenwich Village and is appropriately called Woody. Christian Bale plays both the protest Dylan and his born again Christian self. The Bale scenes are shown in a "mockumentary" with old folkies and friends reminiscing on "Jack's" career (Julianne Moore is spot on as a Joan Baez type). Ben Wishaw plays Arthur Rimbaud, named after the poet Dylan admired who answers in a typical cryptic fashion reporters' questions and provides a loose narration throughout the movie. Finally, Richard Gere plays "Billy" who's supposed to represent the Dylan who went into hiding after his motorcycle crash, it is shown in a wild west fashion, with Billy living in a backwards town filled with cowboys, circus freaks and losers. The movie is not for everyone and is far from perfect, but it's an often brilliant, if vague, insight into Dylan and is one of the best films about the pitfalls of being labeled as an artist and how it made Dylan want to change his persona, not to suit his audience and certainly not journalists but himself.
Posted dec 19, 2007 7:38 am pt
