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I'm Not There (the Dylan movie starring Heath)
MaineWriter:
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
RouxB:
Great trailer
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Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: adiabatic on October 27, 2007, 06:27:02 am ---Here is the international trailer for I?m Not There.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid348381898/bclid348522714/bctid1271722633
--- End quote ---
I LOVED it! Thanks Adiabatic!! :-*
I almost didn't watch it because I figured it was the trailer I had already seen.
oilgun:
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/
smellykellyjay:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on August 08, 2007, 03:42:56 am ---At the New York Film Forum
Wednesday, November 21 – Tuesday, December 4
http://www.filmforum.org/
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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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