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The World Beyond BetterMost => The Culture Tent => Topic started by: Ellemeno on June 19, 2006, 05:29:52 am
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The film about Bob Dylan - Heath's next project. Michelle now in cast.
Cast (in alphabetical order)
Christian Bale
Cate Blanchett
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Richard Gere
Heath Ledger .... Bob Dylan
Julianne Moore
Ben Whishaw
Michelle Williams .... Coco Rivington
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Wow. Christian Bale, too? Sweeeee-eeet.
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I am really looking forward to this one. I've always been a Dylan fan and the filmmakers approach here is interesting, to say the least!
-Lynne
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wow. high caliber cast. Bale and Blanchett in addition to Heath and Michelle.
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And Richard Gere.....
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(http://www.toddhaynes.net/images/imnotthere.jpg)
Release dates for I'm Not There (2007)
Country Date
Canada September 2007 (Toronto Film Festival)
Italy 4 September 2007 (Venice Film Festival)
USA 21 November 2007 (limited)
Canada 28 November 2007
Australia 26 December 2007
Germany 10 January 2008
Netherlands 13 March 2008
IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368794/
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Cate Blanchett as Dylan:
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2006/08/31/thats-not-bob-dylan-thats-cate-blanchett-baby/
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Thanks for starting this! When will it be out?
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Thanks for starting this! When will it be out?
According to its IMDb page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368794/, exactly 6 months from today, Septembr 21, 2007! Shall we have a Dylan thread to help us get prepared?
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It is also being premiered at the Cannes Flim Festival next month.
Leslie
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Update: I have heard that this movie will not be screened at Cannes.
L
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A clip of Cate Blanchett (Bob Dylan) and David Cross (Allen Ginsberg) from I'm Not There.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyWgzUGOliw[/youtube]
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At the New York Film Forum
Wednesday, November 21 – Tuesday, December 4
http://www.filmforum.org/
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The unofficial trailer for the movie:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxO6m_yz8cE[/youtube]
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Leslie, a great find. But is Heath in it? I've watched it twice but I just can't decide if he was there or which is him.
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Leslie, a great find. But is Heath in it? I've watched it twice but I just can't decide if he was there or which is him.
I thought the same thing...I can't tell either if Heath is there or not.
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From an Australian newspaper:
The Frames Glenn Hansard To Appear In Dylan Movie
by Paul Cashmere - August 8 2007
Glenn Hansard from The Frames will appear in the upcoming Bob Dylan movie 'I'm Not There'.
The movie, directed by Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine), is about the life of Bob Dylan, with different characters playing Dylan's various aspects of life and work.
The various Dylan's will be played by Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and strangely Cate Blanchett.
Dylan is a huge fan of The Frames and invited Hansard's band to tour with him in Australia.
That further enhances Dylan's Aussie connections following the appearances from Ledger and Blanchett in the movie.
Hansard has had a number of film roles in the past including last years critically acclaimed 'Once' and the 1991 Irish music flick 'The Commitments'.
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The unofficial trailer for the movie:
Leslie, I've recently figured out that "unofficial trailer" on YouTube means that someone unrelated to the movie put together whatever they wanted, uploaded it to YouTube, and called it the "unofficial trailer." The Dark Knight has a bunch of them. Usually they are pieced together from previous films those actors are in, with the logos of the production company stuck on. They can be pretty creative, but are fan art, not connected with the actual film.
Two clues that this applies to the one in this thread - Calling the film IM NOT THERE, with no apostrophe, and saying it's going to be "worldwide" September 21st, when IMDb says that September 21st is the beginning of its limited USA run.
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Leslie, I've recently figured out that "unofficial trailer" on YouTube means that someone unrelated to the movie put together whatever they wanted, uploaded it to YouTube, and called it the "unofficial trailer." The Dark Knight has a bunch of them. Usually they are pieced together from previous films those actors are in, with the logos of the production company stuck on. They can be pretty creative, but are fan art, not connected with the actual film.
Two clues that this applies to the one in this thread - Calling the film IM NOT THERE, with no apostrophe, and saying it's going to be "worldwide" September 21st, when IMDb says that September 21st is the beginning of its limited USA run.
Ah, okay. Thanks for that info, Elle! It is still a fun video to watch, though.
L
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Music's 'outsiders and outlaws' put their own spin on Dylan
By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY
I'm Not There uses six actors to play Bob Dylan, but the soundtrack employs more than three dozen singers and musicians to create new versions of his songs.
Not all of the tracks will make it into the finished film, set for release Nov. 21, but the producers hope to put out a two-disc soundtrack album with the extras.
Dylan gave the filmmakers his blessing, but he hasn't been involved in the creation of the film or soundtrack.
The title of the film comes from an obscure song on The Basement Tapes, a heavily bootlegged collection of experimentation that Dylan recorded in the late 1960s. That recording will be included in the movie, says director Todd Haynes, and Sonic Youth does a cover version of it as well. "He has one imperfect recording of it, and it feels raw, but it's just gorgeous," Haynes says of Dylan's original. "It's a fragile, enigmatic song, and he clearly is filling in the cadences of the lyrics as he's performing. He's not even saying coherent words in some of the lyrics, which adds tragic mystery to the whole piece."
Other artists on the soundtrack are Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder singing All Along the Watchtower, Jack Johnson on Momma You've Been on My Mind, Willie Nelson covering Señor (Tales of Yankee Power), and Dylan's longtime friend Ramblin' Jack Elliott — a fellow disciple of Dylan's hero Woody Guthrie — performing Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues.
The filmmakers wanted artists with certain artistic integrity, not just recent chart-topping pop acts, says music supervisor Randall Poster. "We went with a lot of outsiders and outlaws. That's the connection they share with Dylan," says Poster, who has spent two years compiling the collection. "We needed a certain caliber of artist to record the songs and lend their own style rather than just do imitations. But they are certainly flirting with Dylan."
Sonic Youth co-founder Lee Ranaldo produced the film's backup band, The Million Dollar Bashers, named after another Basement Tapes song. The group includes guitarist Tom Verlaine of the band Television; jazz keyboardist John Medeski; Tony Garnier, Dylan's bass player; Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley; roots guitarist Smokey Hormel; and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline.
The film features an international, interracial and cross-gender group of actors as Dylan. The young black actor Marcus Carl Franklin plays Dylan as a boy and sings 1963's When the Ship Comes In.
Stephen Malkmus, formerly of the band Pavement, sings Maggie's Farm and Ballad of a Thin Man for the segment in which Cate Blanchett plays an androgynous Dylan.
When Christian Bale portrays Dylan in his "freewheelin' " early career, Minnesota-based singer Mason Jennings performs the songs The Times They Are a-Changin' and The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.
Later, Bale plays Dylan in his early '80s Born Again religious period, and alt-country/punk star John Doe provides the vocals on the gospel infused Pressing On and the folk-oriented I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine.
"At that point in his life, he is an evangelist. He is having a kind of catharsis," says Doe, who is touring with his album A Year in the Wilderness.
Doe adds he was careful not to be too faithful: "For me, Bob Dylan kind of set people free. You're allowed to do anything you want. The only thing about Bob Dylan is you've got to be careful because it's really easy to try to be him. He's so inspiring, you can find yourself doing 'Bob Dylan lite,' and it's terrible."
Other artists in the collection include Jeff Tweedy performing Simple Twist of Fate, Yo La Tengo doing 4th Time Around and I Wanna Be Your Lover, Charlotte Gainsbourg covering Just Like a Woman, and Iron & Wine with Calexico doing a version of Dark Eyes.
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, currently in theaters starring in the Irish street-musician romance Once, perform You Ain't Goin' Nowhere.
The I'm Not There filmmakers say Dylan is uncomfortable looking back too much on his life, and Hansard says he picked up the same vibe. When he met Dylan, they talked about Guthrie instead: "Anyone who's ever been around him will tell you, if you know Bob, you don't talk about Bob," Hansard says.
If the film intrigues its own subject, it's probably because it's a playful interpretation of his life rather than a re-creation.
As Doe says, it's best never to imitate Dylan too closely.
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Another article from USA Today:
Film splits Dylan's personality among six actors
By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY
How many actors does a movie need before it re-creates Bob Dylan?
The answer isn't blowing in the wind — it's six. That's the unusual approach filmmakers took for I'm Not There.
The movie, opening Nov. 21 in limited release, uses an abstract concept to chronicle the life of Dylan, whose own freewheeling philosophy toward music made him one of his generation's most innovative and mysterious artists.
Though films such as Ray and Walk the Line have rejuvenated the musical-biography genre in recent years, I'm Not There breaks all the rules of reality to craft a more poetic image of its subject.
Director and co-writer Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven) says he wanted to make "something more than the traditional biopic" by presenting a series of vignettes that differ in tone and style as much as the actors differ from one another: "It's not a literal retelling of Dylan's life. We're accentuating the radical changes in point of view and style and genre and identity."
Dylan is represented as a young boy by Marcus Carl Franklin, who is black. In an eliptical turn, Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) portrays an actor who plays a Dylan-esque character, and British actor Ben Wishaw (Perfume) portrays Dylan fused with the 19th-century poet Arthur Rimbaud.
Christian Bale (Batman Begins) stars as Dylan in two different sections of the film — Dylan's protest-music period, typified by songs such as The Times They Are a-Changin', and the singer's religious phase exploring gospel music.
Richard Gere plays Dylan in what Haynes describes as a kind of "hippie Western" that incorporates fictional characters from Dylan songs and represents periods of his life when he vanished from public view. "We turned Dylan into his own obsessions and took him a step further than he was in real life," Haynes says. (Dylan wrote music for and co-starred in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid.)
In Dylan's mid-1960s phase, getting booed by some audiences for shifting from folk to electric rock, I'm Not There features him portrayed by Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett. The glossy black-and-white segment echoes the magical realism of Federico Fellini's 8½.
"That film is about the hounded artist, " Haynes says. "And around that time, Dylan was being hounded: Why isn't he protesting? Why is he being so weird, and why are the songs so incomprehensible?"
I'm Not There is a tribute to Dylan's protean personality more than an unmasking, he adds.
"It's partly a desire to figure him out and partly a desire to protect something that will always be enigmatic," Haynes says. "We want to know where the source of his creative energies comes from, but we don't want to destroy it."
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From the Hollywood Reporter:
New York Film Festival sked ends at 'Persepolis'
De Palma 'bombshell' also set
By Gregg Goldstein
Aug 16, 2007
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h243/lnicoll/5798.jpg)
"Persepolis"
NEW YORK -- Sony Pictures Classics' animated coming-of-age film "Persepolis" will close the 45th annual New York Film Festival, which announced Wednesday an eclectic lineup featuring new works from Sidney Lumet, Gus Van Sant and, in his NYFF debut, Brian De Palma.
"There really was an unusually high number of high-quality American films," said Film Society of Lincoln Center program director Richard Pena, who celebrates his 20th year heading the NYFF selection committee. "I've often wondered why directors didn't make a more creative use of genre, and this year they have. It's also been an incredibly strong year for directors who've delivered the best films they've done in a while."
Pena singled out Lumet's ThinkFilm thriller "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" and De Palma's "Redacted," an Iraq War drama from Magnolia Pictures. He said the latter film "will really be a bombshell. People will be upset and offended by (its depiction of) how some U.S. soldiers are treated and what some U.S. soldiers have done."
The committee chose Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's "Persepolis" -- a French adaptation of Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novels about growing up in Iran -- because the Festival de Cannes winner is "a truly expressive work of art," Pena said. "You feel the writer is baring her soul."
IFC Films has four projects in the lineup, all from its VOD/theatrical simultaneous releasing program IFC First Take. They include two more Cannes winners -- Van Sant's adaptation of Blake Nelson's novel, "Paranoid Park," about a skateboarding teen involved in a murder, and Cristian Mungiu's Romanian abortion drama "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days." Two of its other entries also screened at Cannes: Hou Hsiao-hsien's French family drama "The Flight of the Red Balloon" and Catherine Breillat's adaptation of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's "The Last Mistress."
Film geeks will relish the North American premiere of Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner: The Definitive Cut," a 25th anniversary edition of the sci-fi classic with some further tweaks made to the 1992 director's cut.
Festgoers will get a double dose of Bob Dylan with Murray Lerner's docu "The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1965" and Todd Haynes' much-discussed Weinstein Co. pseudo-biopic "I'm Not There." The former contains footage of the infamous "Dylan goes electric" concerts, and the latter features such actors as Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett portraying various incarnations of Dylan's persona.
Other notable films include Lee Chang-dong's Cannes-winning Korean drama "Secret Sunshine"; Noah Baumbach's romantic comedy "Margot at the Wedding," for Paramount Vantage; Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona's feature debut, "The Orphanage," from Picturehouse and producer Guillermo del Toro; Ira Sachs' comedy "Married Life"; Abel Ferrara's Italian-U.S. screwball comedy "Go Go Tales"; John Landis' comic docu "Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project"; and Peter Bogdanovich's 238-minute rockumentary, "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream."
The Film Society previously announced Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited" from Fox Searchlight as its opening-night film and the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men" from Miramax Films and Paramount Vantage as its centerpiece -- two of three films (including "Margot at the Wedding") from producer Scott Rudin.
The fest runs Sept. 28-Oct. 14 at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in the Time Warner Center.
A complete list of New York Film Festival films follows:
"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," directed by Cristian Mungiu, Romania, IFC First Take
"Actresses," Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, France
"Alexandra," Alexander Sokurov, Russia, Rezo Films
"The Axe in the Attic," Ed Pincus and Lucia Small, U.S.
"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," Sidney Lumet, U.S., ThinkFilm
"Blade Runner: The Definitive Cut," Ridley Scott, U.S., Warner Bros.
"Calle Santa Fe," Carmen Castillo, France
"The Darjeeling Limited," Wes Anderson, U.S., Fox Searchlight
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," Julian Schnabel, France/U.S., Miramax Films
"Fados," Carlos Saura, Spain/Portugal
"The Flight of the Red Balloon," Hou Hsiao-hsien, France, IFC First Take
"A Girl Cut in Two," Claude Chabrol, France
"Go Go Tales," Abel Ferrara, Italy/U.S.
"Hamlet," Sven Gade and Heinz Schall, Germany
"I Just Didn't Do It," Masayuki Suo, Japan
"I'm Not There," Todd Haynes, U.S., the Weinstein Co.
"In the City of Sylvia," Jose Luis Guerin, Spain/France
"The Iron Horse," John Ford, U.S., 20th Century Fox
"The Last Mistress," Catherine Breillat, France, IFC First Take
"Leave Her to Heaven," John M. Stahl, U.S.
"The Man From London," Bela Tarr, Hungary/France/Germany
"Margot at the Wedding," Noah Baumbach, U.S., Paramount Vantage
"Married Life," Ira Sachs, U.S.
"Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project," John Landis, U.S.
"No Country for Old Men," Joel and Ethan Coen, U.S. Miramax Films/Paramount Vantage
"The Orphanage," Juan Antonio Bayona, Spain, Picturehouse
"The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1965," Murray Lerner, U.S.
"Paranoid Park," Gus Van Sant, U.S., IFC First Take
"Persepolis," Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, France, Sony Pictures Classics
"Redacted," Brian De Palma, U.S., Magnolia Pictures
"The Romance of Astrea and Celadon," Eric Rohmer, France, Rezo Films
"Secret Sunshine," Lee Chang-dong, Korea
"Silent Light," Carlos Reygadas, Mexico
"Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream," Peter Bogdanovich, U.S.
"Underworld," Josef von Sternberg, U.S.
"Useless," Jia Zhang-ke, Hong Kong
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ic97cb7dc4d1fa8568782fd00847e143d
On a side note: I have Persepolis here to read. I would also like to see that Tom Petty rockumentary. 238 minutes. Wow!
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I’m Not There (http://media.movies.ign.com/media/873/873844/vid_2091237.html) trailer (preceded by random commercial, so be patient)
Thanks for posting this darlin :-*
Ok. I caught four sights of Heath:
- pretty at the beginning; on a stage (?), playing guitar, a woman to his right and both throw their heads back
- a very short glimpse between the b+w Cate Blanchett parts (where she sits on a sofa); he's walking along a row of houses with his arm around a woman (I think the same woman as in the before mentioned scene)
- in a car, shot taken from the right side, in profile and with sunglasses
- towards the end, in front of a window with a lamellae shade; with a fuzzy beard; the screen held in brown/sepia tones; he's looking down as if he was reading something. This one is easy to identify, because it's a full frontal portrait shot.
Anyone see more of Heath? Or disagrees with what I saw?
I liked the trailer. I think it's well-done becaue it fulfills its purpose: it makes me want to see the movie.
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Does anyone know which Dylan that Heath will be playing? It looks to me like the early 60s one.
This movie should be interesting.
From the USA Today article, a bit further down on this thread:
In an eliptical turn, Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) portrays an actor who plays a Dylan-esque character, and British actor Ben Wishaw (Perfume) portrays Dylan fused with the 19th-century poet Arthur Rimbaud.
L
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From the New York Times:
August 21, 2007
Dylan Movie to Open Like a Rolling Premiere
By JOHN ANDERSON
Imagine you’re a film distributor, handling an experimental movie by one of the country’s most iconoclastic directors. The subject is an enigmatic occasional recluse who is being portrayed by four actors, an actress and a 13-year-old boy. Where do you open that film?
If you’re very lucky, you get to book it at Film Forum, perhaps the most exclusive art-house cinema in Manhattan.
Now what do you do with a movie that stars Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Christian Bale and Heath Ledger; whose subject is Bob Dylan; and whose director is the Oscar-nominated Todd Haynes?
Same answer. Same film. Which is what’s making the planned Nov. 21 release of “I’m Not There,” Mr. Haynes’s rumination on Mr. Dylan’s lives and times, something of a curiosity.
In addition to Film Forum, the film’s distributor, the Weinstein Company, will be opening the movie in just three other theaters, one more in New York and two in Los Angeles, giving it the kind of debut that might be afforded a Mexican documentary. Even “Velvet Goldmine” — the previous Weinstein-Haynes collaboration, about the British glam-rock scene of the 1970s, which starred an unknown Jonathan Rhys Meyers — began in 85 theaters in 1998.
But Harvey Weinstein, the company’s co-chairman, said the slow rollout was the best way to nurture an unconventional, nonlinear movie like “I’m Not There,” in which the above-mentioned stars play Mr. Dylan at particular stages of his life. Shot in styles that correspond to each Dylan epoch, “I’m Not There” sometimes looks like “A Hard Day’s Night,” elsewhere like “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” with Mr. Dylan’s life being imbued with mythic American qualities.
“With a movie like this you have to build it,” said Mr. Weinstein, who founded the company with his brother, Bob, two years ago after an acrimonious split from the Walt Disney Company saw them relinquish control of Miramax. “I don’t think you can go out on 500 screens. The reason for Film Forum is you go where the best word of mouth is on the movie. I like the movie; I think it’s adventurous. The audience is going to have to work — work in a good way.”
Mr. Weinstein said that a similar approach had worked for two of Miramax’s biggest successes. “Good Will Hunting” opened in New York and Los Angeles and eventually brought in nearly $140 million at the domestic box office, while “Chicago” began the same way and grossed $170 million. Those films had larger openings, however: “Good Will Hunting” (with the rising stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) in 7 theaters, “Chicago” in 77.
“I’m not saying this movie’s going to come anywhere near those,” Mr. Weinstein said, “but I have a tendency to start small and go big. If we threw this movie out wide, I don’t know what it would do. I think we have to start somewhere.”
The “somewhere” means Film Forum, “a real cathedral of cinema” according to Mr. Haynes’s longtime producer, Christine Vachon, which has presented the premieres of work by Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Hal Hartley, Claude Chabrol, Spike Lee and Lars von Trier, among many others. But rarely does it get star-laden films like “I’m Not There.” And for it to agree to have another theater share a New York premiere is a rare move.
“We did it with ‘Saraband,’ ” said Karen Cooper, Film Forum’s director, referring to Mr. Bergman’s last American release. “Lincoln Plaza opened it the same day, and I don’t think either of us were happy. I thought the same crowd that lined up to see ‘Scenes From a Marriage’ would want to see ‘Scenes From a Divorce.’ I was wrong.”
Ms. Cooper said that she was offered shared openings all the time and regularly turned them down. But she said that she and Mike Maggiore, Film Forum’s programmer and publicist, decided the Haynes film was so remarkable that they would not mind sharing it with Lincoln Plaza. In Los Angeles, “I’m Not There” will open at the Westside Pavilion and ArcLight Cinemas.
Conventional movie-business wisdom says that if a film fails to catch fire at its opening theater, it will not move much farther. But Mr. Weinstein said there was “not a chance” he would not take this film into more theaters and cities, regardless of its fate on the coasts. “I’m going to play every major city in the United States with this movie,” he said. “I’ll play 100 cities, at least.”
He said he also planned to position Ms. Blanchett, who plays Mr. Dylan during his “Blonde on Blonde” phase, for an Oscar. (Mr. Bale corresponds to “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” Mr. Ledger to “John Wesley Harding.”)
“I may be jumping the gun,” Mr. Weinstein said, “but if Cate Blanchett doesn’t get nominated, I’ll shoot myself.”
Films considered Oscar-worthy are released in various ways. Last year, Pedro Almodóvar’s “Volver” and its star, Penélope Cruz, were seen as possible contenders, but Sony Pictures Classics opened the film in only six theaters. (It ultimately grossed close to $13 million.) Another nominee-to-be, “Pan’s Labyrinth,” opened on 17 screens. It has made approximately $37 million. Both those films, however, were in Spanish, and foreign-language films are a hard sell to the American moviegoer.
“I’m Not There,” which will play at film festivals in Venice, Toronto and New York, is Mr. Haynes’s first movie since “Far From Heaven,” his critically acclaimed 2002 homage to the melodramas of Douglas Sirk. The film, which has Mr. Dylan’s blessing, is also, according to Ms. Vachon, his most expensive film, although she declined to divulge the amount. (“Far From Heaven” cost $13.5 million, according to boxofficemojo.com.)
Though Mr. Haynes, who was unavailable for this article, has never had a major commercial success except for “Far From Heaven,” he has never suffered a lack of critical acclaim. His “Poison,” for example, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991, and “Far From Heaven” received four Academy Award nominations, including one for its star, Julianne Moore. But Mr. Weinstein said the decision to pick up “I’m Not There” was not purely about making money but about an obligation to have important movies distributed.
“That’s the story of my life,” he said. “That’s exactly what I believe in. ‘I’m Not There’ and some of the tougher stuff — it’s not going to be ‘The Nanny Diaries,’ you know. But I’ve been very fortunate that what I’ve believed in has worked, and even when it doesn’t work, we make money in other areas to cover that. It is my responsibility and, more importantly, it’s my passion.”
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Good eye. I also spotted him. . .
* in the "portrait"/flash shots at the beginning. He's wearing sunglasses.
* towards the middle, hugging the children in the doorway while a woman stands there holding presents/packages (wearing sunglasses again).
* kissing the girl, shown in profile.
Even better eye :).
I watched it again multiple times, always trying to stop it at THE exact split second. I think all three spottings you mentioned are correct.
I thought it was Heath in the kissing sequence, too, but then wasn't sure about it yesterday. Now I managed to stop the trailer at the right moment, and this nose is unmistakable ;D.
We're a bunch of loonies, dissecting movie trailers only to count glimpses of an actor ::) ;). But it's fun to be a loony among like-minded folks ;D.
This movie should be interesting.
Agreed.
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We're a bunch of loonies, dissecting movie trailers only to count glimpses of an actor ::) ;). But it's fun to be a loony among like-minded folks ;D.
Loony Elle reporting for loony duty! I posted my Heath-trailer-views in the Heath Heath Heath thread WITH images. :) http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,1179.msg241332.html#msg241332
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I had a thought earlier that stoked the day for me: Maybe in this movie, it will be Heath playing the harmonica!
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From Entertainment Tonight:
CATE BLANCHETT is known for disappearing into her roles, but it's safe to say that none of her physical transformations have been anywhere near as drastic as her turn in the upcoming BOB DYLAN biopic 'I'm Not There.'
A far cry from her dazzling red carpet attire, the stunning Australian beauty -- dressed in a black leather jacket, jeans, sunglasses and a short, curly wig -- is surprisingly transformed into the legendary music man with convincing accuracy to capture his distinctive '60s look.
Cate is among a number of actors, including HEATH LEDGER, who will play Dylan at various stages of his life in 'I'm Not There.' The film follows several distinct characters, each depicting a different stage in Dylan's life, embodying a different aspect of his life story and music. The film is the first biographical feature project to secure his approval.
Last year, Dylan scored his first number one album in three decades, while Cate enjoyed recent success with her film 'Babel' co-starring BRAD PITT.
'I'm Not There' is scheduled for limited release on November 21.
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A NY Post article, "Tangled Up in Bob," discusses the 6 faces of Bob Dylan in the movie and what phase of his life each is symbolizing. To see the whole article, go here: http://www.nypost.com/seven/08232007/entertainment/movies/tangled_up_in_bob.htm?page=0
Here's Heath's portion:
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
Era: Biblical Bob, 1968
Character: Bob Dylan
Actor: Heath Ledger
Telling details: At this point, Bob’s already crashed his motorcycle, has taken to reading the Bible and has spawned four kids with wife Sara (Charlotte Gainsbourg). That may just be future Wallflowers leader Jakob in the papoose. Ledger sports the same facial hair and short haircut that Dylan wore at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1969, after releasing “John Wesley Harding” and “Nashville Skyline.”
I Googled for images of Bob Dylan at Isle of Wight Festival in 1969, and got these:
From http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/iow69-dylan.html
(http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/dylan-iow69-250.jpg)(http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/dylan-iow69.jpg)(http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/iow-69-dylan3.jpg)
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More Bob Dylan photos from his Isle of Wight era 1969, that Heath is representing:
From the official Band website
(http://theband.hiof.no/band_pictures/isle_of_wight.gif)
From the Encyclopedia Britannica (!)
(http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=23909&rendTypeId=4)
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=477761&in_page_id=1773
(http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_03/bobsplit6MS2508_468x246.jpg)
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Dylan Movie I'm Not There an Oddball Effort
By Ray Bennett
VENICE, Italy (Hollywood Reporter) - Todd Haynes' highly impressionistic docudrama "I'm Not There" is "inspired by the life and work of Bob Dylan," though pop's leading troubadour is not mentioned, barely seen and not heard very much in the production.
Instead, an eclectic mix of actors including Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Richard Gere portray characters whose lives run parallel to or are informed by Dylan's life. There's plenty of the singer-songwriter's music on hand but sung by others. Filled with incidents that echo famous moments in Dylan's life, the goal is to summarize all the disparate elements in his career.
A long film, at 135 minutes, it's difficult to see who the prime audience will be for the picture, screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival. It's a curiosity that could delight or turn off loyal Dylan fans and may prove too oddball to draw in younger and mainstream audiences.
The guiding principal of Dylan's life is declared right at the start as a character who calls himself Woody Guthrie, an 11-year-old black guitar picker played by Marcus Carl Franklin, is advised to "live your own time, child, sing about your own time."
Woody rides the rails and tells stories about the days of the Depression, but in another incarnation, Jack Rollins (Bale), he starts to create the songs that stunned and inspired a generation.
The film jumps all over the place, introducing Arthur (Ben Whishaw), a view of the man as young poet, and then as an actor named Robbie (Ledger), who shows his romantic side. Many scenes are given over to Jude Quinn (Blanchett), the colorful, wisecracking Dylan from the '60s. But then it's back again to Bale, only now he's Pastor John, in a role that illustrates the performer's Christian conversion and decade as a gospel singer.
Finally, there is a passage about Billy the Kid (Gere), who survives his encounter with Sheriff Pat Garrett to live a quiet life in a place named Riddle until events conspire to bring him to public attention again.
Haynes directs all of these people and places with great flair, helped immensely by cinematographer Edward Lachman and his mostly inspired cast. Whishaw, an intense young British stage actor who played a serial killer in the European hit "Perfume," speaks directly to the camera, while Bale inhabits both the younger Dylan and the religious convert with typical concentration.
Gere is effective in the Western sequence, though that segment's relevance is difficult to grasp. True, Dylan co-starred in Sam Peckinpah's film about William Bonney.
The star of the show is undoubtedly Blanchett, who has great fun playing Dylan as a showboat who quite knowingly goes about creating his reputation for rebellious independence.
Randall Poster and Jim Dunbar put together the musical soundtrack, which features the obscure Dylan title track dating from his "Basement Tapes" sessions with The Band at Woodstock in 1967. There's also a new cover version by Sonic Youth.
The film is said to have the endorsement of Dylan, which must have taken some courage given the ragged edges of his life on display. But the film fits well with his singular ability to reinvent himself while really putting us nowhere nearer to fully understanding the man.
Cast:
Jack/Pastor John: Christian Bale
Jude: Cate Blanchett
Woody: Marcus Carl Franklin
Billy: Richard Gere
Robbie: Heath Ledger
Arthur: Ben Whishaw
Claire: Charlotte Gainsbourg
Allen Ginsberg: David Cross
Keenan Jones: Bruce Greenwood
Alice Fabian: Julianne Moore
Coco Rivington: Michelle Williams
Director: Todd Haynes; Screenwriters: Todd Haynes, Oren Moverman; Producers: Christine Vachon, James D. Stern, John Sloss, John Goldwyn; Director of photography: Edward Lachman; Production designer: Judy Becker; Music: Randall Poster, Jim Dunbar; Costume designer: John Dunn; Editor: Jay Rabinowitz.
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Here are a couple more reviews:
http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2007/09/sixy_muthafer.html (http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2007/09/sixy_muthafer.html)
Sixy Muthaf-er
It seems just like a gimmick, yes, it does
It jumps time just like a gimmick, yes, it does
And it aches just like a gimmick
But it breaks down just like a classic tale.
I’m Not There is all there. Six, six, yes, six Bob Dylans in all, the latest from Todd Haynes seems to aspire to an excess of clever and a dangerous dance with pretense, but remarkably, in a 2 hour 18 minute running time, turns out to be a very demanding, but very clear-minded piece of filmmaking.
The “clever,” as you have probably heard, is that the start of Dylan’s artistic life thorough the period slightly after Nixon resigns/he was divorced by Sara Lownds, when in the film, Dylan gives up on the idea that his music could change the world in a politically weighty way, is portrayed by six sides of his personality, represented here by young Marcus Carl Franklin, Ben Wishaw, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, and finally, in repose, Richard Gere.
Haynes and his co-writer Oren Moverman’s screenplay jumps through time hoops with the seeming abandon of wild animals in a circus act, but as at the circus, any thought of it being a natural act is a false one. It is well rehearsed and considered to create the feeling of spontaneity and even randomness. Each of the Dylans – none actually named Bob or Dylan – is simply a manifestation of one man’s complex personality. And remarkably, as the circus passes you by on screen, you are still free to make your own decisions about who this man was (and I use was because the film really does end with the end of the period in which Dylan wrote his most famous songs).
Dylan was, apparently, a quiet collaborator here… at the very least, allowing his songs, his vocals, and his personal life to be used for the project. You may recall the Scorsese doc on Dylan, which assiduously avoided discussion about his wife and mother of his children and even the songs that many have ascribed to being reflections of that relationship. Haynes clearly had no such restrictions here, as he not only uses Dylan’s first/major marriage (albeit rather loose on details), but the alleged relationship with the pseudonymonous Edie Sedgwick (a subject which caused great rage by Dylan against the film Factory Girl last year), and even his near-decade as a born-again Christian.
In fact, one could easily say that this film puts all the blame on Dylan’s plate and almost mocks the born again period by dispatching it so quickly, while all the while making Dylan’s shoulders seem so big that they could easily carry any weight. At times I felt like Haynes was falling into hero worship, but by the end of the film, I think that even my feelings were just a reflection of some pretty direct propositions. Basically, watching a guy who thinks he is King Shit can be infuriating, not because the filmmaker is necessarily agreeing, but because that guy is simply infuriating. Rage is, on some level, proof of the filmmaker’s honesty.
The six performances are all quite good. The standout is Blanchett, who also has the challenge of two breasts and no scrotum, though there is a purpose to “Dylan’s” faminization in that period of his life as well.
I’m Not There is a classic example of a film with a singular conceit that the filmmaker deserves accolades for and which at the same time needs the audience to – perhaps in multiple viewings – get past the conceit to see what the filmmaker is really after. I would argue that understanding the time jumping conceit makes plain why the excellent-but-overrated Pulp Fiction is so overrated (the time leaps are less significant than sold and mostly keep the film from a weak ending that was a story flaw from the start). Here the metaphor of the different sides of the man, which evolved over time, but each of which also made “appearances” at time when other “Dylans” were the primary, is much, much more than a gimmick.
I also think this movie is a classic example of one where the first viewing is really just a toe in the water. If ever there was a movie made for the DVD era, this is it. (I wouldn’t bother to try to watch any longer clip than four minutes on an iPod… even the larger screen version due this Christmas.) Haynes & Moverman find a richness in this 10 year sliver of Dylan’s life – again, a conventional biopic choice to narrow the breadth of the story that is not really consciously on the surface of the film, which never feels like any conventional bio-pic – that is further set throbbing by Haynes’ choices as a director.
(Note: I am making a point of mentioning Haynes’ co-screenwriter in no small part because of how disturbed I have become at the movement to make all films connected in any way to Judd Apatow into “Apatow’s films,” which is a horrible throwaway of the work of a lot of very talented people – directors and screenwriters included – and an overstatement of Apatow’s current muscle, based on commerciality as much as anything else. Those of us who cover this stuff for a living should be the first ones to hold ourselves in check about stuff like this, as opposed to leading the charge for a premature mythologizing of any talented person, which Apatow obviously is.).
Unlike something like Eyes Wide Shut, I don’t think this puzzle is a Puzzle Movie, designed to be uncoded by exacting eyes and minds. Haynes always brings layers to his work. But the film is so densely packed – even if it is 20 minutes overlong for ticketbuyers who distinctly put their energy on low flame in the theater at about 1:40 and rejoined the film in full around the 2 hour mark – that you can’t really read it in one sitting. You can, as Greil Marcus commented while presenting Haynes before the film, take away moments that you feel are definitive. (Personally, I did not. For me, it was the collage that drew me in.) But that is mostly, I think, because you need to make your choices on first viewing about what you want from that viewing. And I am pretty sure that the next time and the time after that and probably a few times after that, you will be finding new flavors in a soup that is a pleasure to each every time it is served,
http://aslittleaspossible.blogspot.com/2007/08/telluride-day-1-im-not-there-is-chase.html#links (http://aslittleaspossible.blogspot.com/2007/08/telluride-day-1-im-not-there-is-chase.html#links)
Telluride Day 1: I'm Not There is a chase movie
TELLURIDE, Colo. -- First impression, written furiously as mountain thunder crackles in the distance:
I'm Not There is a chase movie, and it plays like the lovechild of Cameron Crowe (the music worshipper) and David Lynch (master of splintering the psyche).
No one in the movie plays a character named Bob Dylan, but they all play physical and/or emotional representations of Dylan. Christian Bale plays a folk music hero, Heath Ledger plays the actor who plays the folk music hero in a film, Cate Blanchett plays a folk music hero who goes "electric" and alienates his fan base. Richard Gere plays Billy the Kid. Ben Whishaw plays a "poet" named Arthur Rimbaud who is under interrogation. The overly charismatic preteen Marcus Carl Franklin plays a boy named Woody Guthrie who's trainhopping away from a troubled childhood.
All these characters add up to the essence of Dylan as he changed over his career, and they are all running from something. In this way, I'm Not There is a chase movie. It's about men who are constantly trying to outrun fame, the media, conformity, themselves, their loves, the law and so on. They are trying to excuse themselves from their current reality. Look at the title.
Blanchett arrives late and owns the movie. She and Bale play the pre- and post-electric Dylan, but Blanchett is the axis on which the film spins. She is a joy to watch. She looks and acts like Dylan. There is little artifice. It is fascinating. Why did Todd Haynes want a woman in the part? I don't know. But it works as a ballsy experiment, and Blanchett proves she can pull off absolutely anything.
The movie jumps back and forth between narratives and time periods (think Velvet Goldmine) that are connected by music and images and feelings and tones. It's a pastiche, a four-dimensional quilt. It is a wildly ambitious, verbose, confusing movie with an epic goal: to understand a character, and his place within and without his generation, and then to subvert that understanding with more questions than answers. For better or worse, I'm Not There is a movie that needs to be studied. It has many apparent intricacies. If you want to compare it to bedding, it has a very high thread count. It glows with the same kind of thick, beautiful vagueness as Lynch's Mulholland Dr. does. We have the pieces of the puzzle and we have some idea of how to assemble them, but once we do we don't get a definitive picture. Rather, we're left with colors and patterns and moods and tones and suspicions. Can it be assembled in more way than one? Or should it just be appreciated in its parts?
The bottom line: Telluride reaction is mixed. As tired as I was, I didn't nod off -- even as it dragged laboriously and wrecklessly into its third hour. Haynes' sweat is very visible. The screenplay is a feat. There were moments of transcendence, though -- moments when I was utterly thankful for Haynes' vision and ambition. I need to see the movie again in order to understand if it truly extends beyond its experimental nature, but I can say this for sure: This is Haynes' magnum opus. And even if you hit the wall at minute 120, it's worth sticking with until the end, which features cinema's sweetest, slowest fade out ever.
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The movie poster from Venice:
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News from Venice...
VENICE (Reuters) - Taiwanese director Ang Lee's sexually explicit "Lust, Caution" was the surprise winner of the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on Saturday, just two years after he won with "Brokeback Mountain."
The movie is a World War Two thriller set in Shanghai featuring long and sometimes violent sex scenes which Lee has hinted were real.
"It is overwhelming, because this movie has taken me to some very difficult places," Lee told the red carpet award ceremony on the Lido waterfront.
"I have invited you to come along with me and in the end to stay down there with me ... You are the seven samurais, I needed your help," he added, addressing the seven-member jury.
Brian De Palma, whose "Redacted" shocked audiences in Venice with its brutal reconstruction of the real-life rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers, won the Silver Lion award for best director.
Tunisian-born director Abdellatif Kechiche and his drama "La Graine et le mulet" ("The Secret of the Grain"), was one of two runner-up jury prize winners, and was described by the jury as the "revelation" of the 2007 edition of the festival.
The film is about an old Arab man and his family seeking to realize their dream of opening a restaurant in southern France.
While not overtly political, it touches on the issue of integration by immigrants, and whether they have what the director called the "right to be different."
Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There," one of six U.S. productions in the 23-strong main competition, took the other runner-up prize for his conceptual biopic about singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
In a bold piece of casting, Australian-born Cate Blanchett was one of six performers to play the singer at various stages of his life, and it paid off when she was named best actress in Venice this year.
Hollywood star Brad Pitt was the surprise winner of the best actor award for his portrayal of outlaw Jesse James in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford."
His co-star, Casey Affleck, who played James' killer Ford as a creepy social misfit, had been widely expected to scoop the prize.
Venice director Marco Mueller, facing competition from festivals in Rome and Toronto, succeeded in attracting some of Hollywood's biggest stars, although his decision to invite so many U.S. films was criticized for making Venice too commercial.
Pitt and partner Angelina Jolie came to the canal city with their children, and George Clooney, Woody Allen, Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron and Keira Knightley all wowed the noisy crowds gathering along the red carpet each night.
Reuters
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A four and a half minute video of interviews with Todd Haynes and Heath Ledger at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. Heath starts about two minutes in:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lgPj9JRFmY[/youtube]
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I had such a nice time at the movies this past weekend. I got to see the trailer for "Rendition" on Friday night, and the trailer for "I'm Not There" on Sunday. So nice to get a fix of both of my boys again, albeit not together.
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In the "Well, Isn't He Macho?" department:
Blanchett's husband 'repulsed' by Dylan role
http://www.actressarchives.com/news.php?id=8043
BY: WENN | Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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Actress Cate Blanchett terrified her husband while filming BOB DYLAN biopic I'M NOT THERE - because he was "repulsed" at the sight of her disguised as a man.
The Elizabeth star appears in drag in the new movie - for which she was named best actress at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month (Sep07) - but her spouse Andrew Upton hated seeing his usually feminine wife in character as the male singer/songwriter.
She says, "He wouldn't come near me. He was utterly repulsed by it."
And Blanchett admits she was prepared to go to great lengths to portray a man.
She explains, "My friend put a sock down my pants and that kind of helped my walk."
The Todd Haynes-directed movie sees six different actors including Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Blanchett take on the life of Dylan during different periods of his career.
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New poster:
(http://www.cinematical.com/media/2007/09/imnotthere1.jpg)
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There is a very long article in the New York Times about this movie. I am just posting the first few paragraphs here, with the URL for those who want to read the whole thing.
October 7, 2007
This is Not a Bob Dylan Movie
By ROBERT SULLIVAN
You could begin the story of Todd Haynes’s Dylan movie at the very beginning, about seven years ago, while Haynes was driving cross-country in his beat-up old Honda. But since Todd Haynes’s film about Dylan is as much about Todd Haynes as it is about Dylan (or maybe even more); and since Haynes is a filmmaker who, in midcareer at age 46, is doing his best to take the experimental into the multiplex; and, further, since those who don’t like the film are likely to consider it a kind of gorgeous indulgence, a bizarre experiment, the temptation is to skip the ordinary narrative introduction and begin at the end, or very near the end, in this case in the last few days of filming, on the outskirts of Montreal, where, way in the back of a dark and cavernous and disused factory, there was a white glowing light, like something in a dream. We begin then with an image — an image that is all about, believe it or not, the relationship between Haynes and his film, between Dylan and Haynes, between the artist and the subject he is trying to portray.
Todd Haynes’s Dylan project is a biopic starring six people as Bob Dylan, or different incarnations of Bob Dylan, including a 13-year-old African-American boy, Marcus Carl Franklin, and an Australian woman, Cate Blanchett. It’s a biopic with a title that takes it name from one of the most obscure titles in the Dylan canon, a song available only as a bootleg, called “I’m Not There.” As I arrived at the set outside Montreal and pulled into a mud-swamped parking lot, disembarking and moving toward the great white light, I passed through the recreated past — namely the ’60s and ’70s. There was a sign for Folk City, for instance, and a fake cover for “Bringing It All Back Home,” a mock-up with the actress Cate Blanchett on it. There was a part of a bedroom from the ’70s and, on a nearby stand, a copy of “Les Illuminations,” by Arthur Rimbaud, the artist who seems to have inspired Dylan in his early days nearly as much as he inspired Todd Haynes. The book, the filmgoer will learn, shows up in a scene involving the ’70s superstar Dylan, a kind of jerk Dylan, played by Heath Ledger, who was just leaving the old factory: it was like a Grand Central Station of movie stars, as Ledger was on his way back to the Montreal apartment that he and the actress Michelle Williams had been staying in together for the past few weeks. Williams plays Coco Rivington, socialite, love interest of Blanchett’s Dylan, who is known in the film as Jude Quinn, the electric, rebellious Dylan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/magazine/07Haynes.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin
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Great trailer
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Here is the international trailer for I?m Not There.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid348381898/bclid348522714/bctid1271722633 (http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid348381898/bclid348522714/bctid1271722633)
I LOVED it! Thanks Adiabatic!! :-*
I almost didn't watch it because I figured it was the trailer I had already seen.
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Has anyone bought the Soundtrack yet? It came out Oct 30th (on my birthday!). I couldn't find it in stores so I ordered it from Amazon. I can't wait! (EDIT: I cancelled my Amazon order because I just found a copy and I'm listening to it now!) Except for the title track it's all covers of Dylan songs by different artists including Yo La Tengo, Eddie Vedder, Jack Johnson and even Charlotte Gainsbourg who sings Just Like a Woman. Unfortunately, Heath isn't listed :(
Disc: 1
1. All Along the Watchtower - Million Dollar Bashers, Eddie Vedder
2. I'm Not There - Sonic Youth
3. Goin' to Acapulco - Calexico, Jim James
4. Tombstone Blues - Richie Havens
5. Ballad of a Thin Man - Stephen Malkmus, Million Dollar Bashers
6. Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again - Cat Power
7. Pressing on - John Doe
8. Fourth Time Around - Yo La Tengo
9. Dark Eyes - Calexico, Iron & Wine
10. Highway 61 Revisited - Million Dollar Bashers, Karen O
11. One More Cup of Coffee - Calexico, Roger McGuinn
12. Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Mason Jennings
13. Billy 1 - Los Lobos
14. Simple Twist of Fate - Jeff Tweedy
15. Man in the Long Black Coat - Mark Lanegan
16. Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) - Calexico, Willie Nelson
Disc: 2
1. As I Went Out One Morning - Mira Billotte
2. Can't Leave Her Behind - Stephen Malkmus, Lee Ranaldo
3. Ring Them Bells - Sufjan Stevens
4. Just Like a Woman - Calexico, Charlotte Gainsbourg
5. Mama You've Been on My Mind/A Fraction of Last Thoughts on Woody Guthri - Jack Johnson
6. I Wanna Be Your Lover - Yo La Tengo
7. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová
8. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? - The Hold Steady
9. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott
10. Wicked Messenger - The Black Keys
11. Cold Irons Bound - Million Dollar Bashers, Tom Verlaine
12. Times They Are a Changin' - Mason Jennings
13. Maggie's Farm - Stephen Malkmus, Million Dollar Bashers
14. When the Ship Comes in - Marcus Franklin
15. Moonshiner - Bob Forrest
16. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine - John Doe
17. Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Antony and the Johnsons
18. I'm Not There - The Band, Bob Dylan
Also, is anyone going to see I'm Not There - In Concert on Nov 8th in New York? It features many artists who appear on the soundtrack as well as Todd Haynes and Heath Baby as special guests. It's at the Beacon Theatre. There's more info at the movie's website:
http://www.imnotthere.info/ (http://www.imnotthere.info/)
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At the New York Film Forum
Wednesday, November 21 – Tuesday, December 4
http://www.filmforum.org/
It's been update: http://www.filmforum.org/films/imnotthere.html
I'm planning to be there the afternoon of the 21st. The evening shows are all sold out.
In addition. . .
http://www.movingimage.us/site/screenings/index.html
I'm Not There
With Todd Haynes in person
Saturday, November 10, 7:00 p.m.
At AMC Loews West 34th Street 14, 312 West 34th Street, Manhattan
2007, 135 mins. 35mm print courtesy The Weinstein Company. Directed by Todd Haynes. With Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw. Todd Haynes reinvents and expands the biopic with his kaleidoscopic view of Bob Dylan, played by six actors.
Tickets $12 Museum members/free for Sponsor level and above/$18 non-members. Advance tickets are sold out. Stand-by tickets available at the door.
No minute like the last one, huh? I won't be able to attend this one.
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Funny you should mention that, Kelly, because I went tonight! I wouldn't have known about were it not for the announcement in the program last night with Ang and James. (And since most of Broadway is on strike, I took a chance for stand-by tickets to this film.)
First of all, for all you Heathens out there, Heath bares all in the first few minutes, however briefly.
I'm not a big Dylan fan, and I'm not familiar with all his "periods", but I still enjoyed the film. It's overall quirky and choppy and a bit too long. But, as director Todd Haynes said tonight, he wanted to preserve the genuine weirdness that is Dylan. I would say he succeeded.
Heath was very good, especially interacting with Charlotte Gainsbourg's character. Michelle has a couple of brief but interesting scenes--I found it difficult to recognize her. Christian Bale was earnest; I didn't really follow the whole Richard Gere sequence.
The kid who plays "Woody", Marcus Carl Franklin, was astonishing. I expect we'll see more of this gifted actor.
The film belongs to Cate Blanchett. She is made to look--and manages to sound--the most archetypically Dylan-like, full of nervous energy and rebelliousness.
Bruce Greenwood was a surprise guest. He was very effective as Mr. Jones. He spoke about how the giant sound stage was dominated by Cate's performance; the crew was drawn in by her energy. Later, she would appear as herself, and, Bruce said, everyone would say, "Who's the blond chick?"
It's great to be in New York! If I lived here, I could see joining the Museum of the Moving Image with all the terrific programming they have.
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I really cant wait to see this movie...
Thank you Paul, for the review.
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Thanks Paul! Can't wait.
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Thanks for that review, Paul. Sounds great.
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I'm Not There leads Spirit noms
Wednesday, 28 Nov 2007 12:10
Cate Blanchett is one of six actors to play Dylan in Todd Haynes' dazzling biopic.
Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There has been announced as the 2008 Independent Spirit awards frontrunner, with four major nominations.
Six different actors play the revered songwriter in Haynes' film, including Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and Richard Gere.
But its unorthodox approach to the Blonde on Blonde legend's life is exemplified by the parts played by Cate Blanchett and young black actor Marcus Carl Franklin, who received best supporting actress and best supporting actor nominations.
The film was also nominated for best feature, alongside Juno, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, A Mighty Heart and Paranoid Park, while Haynes received a best director nomination.
And I'm Not There was yesterday confirmed as the recipient of the event's inaugural Robert Altman award, a prize given in honour of the late auteur to the director, casting agent and cast of an outstanding independent film.
Tony Leung and Tang Wei, the stars of Ang Lee's Venice Golden Lion winner Lust, Caution, are named in the best actor and best actress categories, while Julie Delpy is nominated for best first feature for her debut 2 Days In Paris.
Angelina Jolie's role as widow Marianne Pearl sees her as the firm favourite in the best actress category, with Wei, Sienna Miller (Interview) Parker Posey (Broken English) and Ellen Page (Juno) nominated.
Leung faces stiff competition from Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Savages) Frank Langella (Starting Out In The Evening) Don Cheadle (Talk To Me) and Pedro Castaneda (August Evening).
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/entertainment/reviews/countries/france/im-not-there-leads-spirit-noms-$1173168.htm
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Thanks for the article, Clarissa. I'm going to try to get together with the NY Brokies soon to see "I'm Not There." 8)
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I just got back from seeing it and I really enjoyed it! Heath is great in it, Heathens will not be disappointed. He was very well complemented by Charlotte Gainsbourg. In fact, I think he should pull a Johnny Depp and move to France and live with her, they were so good together. It's an odd but strangely uplifting film. All I can say is, thank god for Todd Haynes!
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I haven't the chance to see it yet, but it seems the reviews for this movie are very extreme, either you like it or you hate it. Good to hear you like Heath's performance, I've read many good reviews about Charlotte Gainsbourg and her chemistry with Heath in it.
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Borrowed this from the library. A very ambitious film that achieves at least one of its aims to show the magnitude of Dylan's genius. Yes, it really takes several actors to show the many sides of him; however, I thought Richard Gere was one too many that put the movie into the "jump the shark" territory. The Heath Ledger portrayal seemed to coexist with the Chistian Bale portrayal. Heath's portrayal confused me because he actually looked a lot like Ennis still having the short curly hair and the long sideburns. He had a wife that he didn't seem very close to and two daughters, and they went through a divorce. So, just because of my closeness to BBM, that part didn't work for me so well. The older child part was played by a black young man. Surprisingly, it worked quite well. The movie glossed over Dylan's relationship with Woody Guthrie, which disappointed me. His conversion to born-again Christian was well done by Christian Bale, and his sudden, jarring electrification at the Newport Jazz and Folk Festival was a bit over the top. His time in Europe was effectively played by Cate Blanchett with aplomb. Two other characters in the film were "the world" and "the commentators". There was a hilarious part where some older lady commentators were looking for Dylan and finally spotted him cavorting with four mop-top young men on a hill, dancing, rolling down the hill, etc. The women extracted him from his companions and he went off to do his interview while the four others were chased by a mob of screamining teenaged women. A movie well worth taking in although you might want to have a cup of coffee beforehand so you can follow it all!!
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One other thing. So much cigarette smoking in this film that I was mentally gagging through most of it. Thank God people are not allowed to smoke in public places anymore! It's a wonder any of our parents made it through life with intact respiratory systems.
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One other thing. So much cigarette smoking in this film that I was mentally gagging through most of it. Thank God people are not allowed to smoke in public places anymore! It's a wonder any of our parents made it through life with intact respiratory systems.
And yet, asthma was pretty rare back then. Today it seems every second kid has asthma. Maybe exposure to second hand smoke provided some sort of immunity? ;)
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I had asthma as a kid, Gil. It can also be caused by dust and pollution, which is more prevalent these days. There's more dust in the atmosphere due to the drying out of large sections of country as urban folks use up all the water. Global warming plays a role too. For instance, a large section of central eastern California, Nevada, and Utah have become desertized. Pollution has grown as we burn more coal and other fossil fuels for energy.
It surprises me, after watching the movie, that Bob Dylan is still alive, and still has some semblance of a voice!!