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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Todd Haynes
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Actors:
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Larry Day,
Richie Havens,
Marcus Carl Franklin,
Roc LaFortune,
Paul Cagelet,
Brian R.C. Wilmes,
Pierre-Alexandre Fortin,
Cate Blanchett,
Ben Whishaw,
Christian Bale,
Richard Gere,
Heath Ledger,
Kris Kristofferson,
Don Francks,
Tyrone Benskin
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Duration:
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136 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)104.5
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Plot Summary:
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A sprinkling actors role of mythical singer-songwriter Bob Dylan at different stages in his personal life and career. In 1959 a guitar-strumming salad days (Marcus Carl Franklin) rides the rails, calling himself ''Guthrie.'' Then a the human race named Jack (Christian Bale) emerges in Supplemental York's Greenwich Village, followed near Robbie (Heath Ledger), Jude (Cate Blanchett) and other personalities.
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I'm Not There
Carina Chocano
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 genre. A meticulous deconstruction of the legend, I'm Not There is the anti-biopic. It stars Christian B...
I'm Not There
Claudia PuigThough 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 conceit certainly is intriguing, as well as gimmicky: Six actors play Dylan, each representing a distin...
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 the words, beliefs and assumptions offered to him by fans and journalists, insisting he is "just a ...
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