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5.12.11
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[FILM REVIEW] Bill Cunningham New York
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[FILM REVIEW] I'M NOT THERE

11.24.07
I'M NOT THERE

Directed by Todd Haynes

Starring Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, et al.

Review by Seth Rogovoy, editor-in-chief and critic-at-large, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine


In some ways, this is the movie that Bob Dylan himself has been trying to make for forty years. Combining elements of EAT THE DOCUMENT, RENALDO AND CLARA, and MASKED AND ANONYMOUS, Todd Haynes conjures up his own impressionistic palimpsest of Bob Dylan's enigmatic and mercurial career.

To be honest, based on everything I had read about this movie beforehand, I had very low expectations going in. But Haynes and co-writer Oren Moverman really do know and love their Dylan, and hardcore fans will gleefully recognize dialogue, images, and themes from previous films and songs (the film is a kind of collage in that sense).

This is no conventional biopic, and it's hard to say how non-Dylanologists will respond to this film. But Haynes utterly acquits himself in what could have been an impossible task. And if Cate Blanchett doesn't win an Oscar for Best Actor (she plays a Dylan figure), then Oscar is a wiener.

[Seth Rogovoy's biography, BOB DYLAN: PROPHET, MYSTIC, POET, is due out from Scribner Books in 2009.]





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