I'm Not There (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Todd Haynes
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Actor: Bruce Greenwood, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christian Bale, David Cross, Richard GereDirector: Todd Haynes
Brand: I'M NOT THERE (DVD MOVIE)
Cinematographer: Edward Lachman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 135 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Weinstein Company
DVD Reviews of I'm Not There (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: as challenging as a bob dylan album.
Summary: 5 Stars
Even if you've seen dylan's numerous documentaries, which is referenced in this movie a lot, the movie adds a shade that takes on the dylan mix of truth and myth turns it into a harmonic rainbow.
This DVD will be referenced too soon as an approach that makes you want to see it over and over again only so you can dissect the message or just enjoy a particular color that the movie invokes.
DVD Review: fundamentalist literalism masked as art
Summary: 1 Stars
Take Dylan's lyrics and find a literal hollywood scenario with all gossip questions answered, mix in maudlin dramatization of social issues, and voila, "I'm not there."
Dylan's "I want you" is superimposed stereotyped hollywood version of who was grabbing whose bare thigh at what exact moment and place, a kind of let's do sixties love with just enough naughtiness for a bit of titillation, but the names are superficially changed to give the voyeur as sense that this isn't a National Enquirer piece.
For those who find Dylan's "Dreams of Johanna" too complex and multifaceted, too filled with shadows, subtleties, and texture, this movement provides a solution. It will give you the latest stereotype of the 60's, hardly different from one of those decade "60's," "70's" television documentaries spliced together with media coverage of well known events. No more troubling mystery to the song.
For Bob Dylan as a person, artist, and for the times he experienced, I recommend his masterpiece, Chronicles, rather than this wreck of a film.
I read with respect and amazement the appreciations for this film by those who have read Chronicles, but I can't agree this film is "right on"--in Chronicles, relationships are complex, unsentimentalized, and honest and songs emerge of a deep whirl of life and culture. Recall Dylan's recollection of his roomates in New York and of a friend's kitchen conversation on how being born is a violation of privacy and compare it to this films one-to-one, linking of words to things, of the eddies and twists of culture to this or that tv clip on Nixon or LBJ.
Need we wonder by BD sometimes has a chip on his shoulder when dealing with reporters asking the kind of questions this film traffics in and then answers ad nauseam?
This may be a minority opinion, but for the record, here's my shorter version of this review. "I'm not there": drivel.
DVD Review: You're not there
Summary: 5 Stars
I made a point of reading through all these reviews because I was curious to see if this film seemed as brilliant to non Dylan fans as it was to one such as me (a true, lifelong Dylan fan who nonetheless has managed to find some of his work disappointing, e.g. the latest CD and the execrable Tarantula). The eye-opener in this exercise has been to find the number of self-proclaimed Dylan fans who didn't "get it." With some, there are telltale signs that they really weren't that into Bob to begin with--like if you confuse Monterey with Newport, you're barely even a drive-by fan, man. More critically, if you don't recognize the line, "I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me," as being from Dylan--not Rimbaud--and you see the line as something the director threw in just to be pretentious and confuse you, then it's little wonder you're having trouble "getting it." The movie is about the chaos of lives, especially lives lived of, by, and for the public. And it's about a man who has tried to deal with that chaos by being himself chaotic--"drifting in and out of lifetimes unmentionable by name," as he once famously wrote. How people can claim to be Dylan fans and miss how perfectly this movie captures the essence of Dylan's entire career is baffling.
The non-fans can be excused for "not getting it" (by the way, I don't get quantum physics either, but that doesn't make me contemptuous of those who do get it). The irony of the non-Dylan fans is that most of their comments can be sung to the tune of Ballad of a Thin Man as they pretty much reflect the extended Mr. Jones segment of the film. More ironic are the comments of the alleged fans in that they echo the disillusionment of the fans from the acoustic-to-electric segment of the film.
There have been countless music bios made over the years and every one of them--from the good to the bad--pretty much follow the same blueprint: struggling artist up from obscurity, battles internal demons (or Ike Turner), and then achieves ultimate triumph. Apparently many of the commenters here went into this film with that blueprint firmly in mind, hoping to find a nice linear path to a satisfying cathartic moment--Dylan wins a Grammy or Dylan wins an Oscar. Their frustration is obvious throughout this thread, and it's clearly because they did the very thing that Dylan in his career and Todd Haynes in this bold, daring movie warn against--trying to stuff other people's lives (or art) into neat little boxes.
I don't expect non-Dylan fans or faux-Dylan fans to appreciate the full richness of this movie because so much of it is due to the countless and clever allusions to Dylan's life and work. But this film should still work for people who realize some basic things about human existence. One, that we all pass through different stages in our lives--become in effect different people from age to age, sometimes from hour to hour. And two, that time is an arbitrary construct, a mere tool for helping us manage the utter randomness of where, when, how and how long we live. Any film viewer--Dylan fan or not--who goes into I'm Not There with some sense of the title's weight will find that Todd Haynes has effectively tapped into Dylan to create a profound meditation on human existence.
Turn off the movie in your own minds, folks, and just let this one happen to you.
DVD Review: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Summary: 4 Stars
Audacious to have both Bale and Ledger in the same film, but the thunder was stolen by the Dark Knight movie. It does seem perfectly sad that Ledger's character is so out of touch with his feelings that he ruins a perfectly good marriage, just as the tabloids hint happened in real life. As usual, the children pay the price, especially if they are to be left with Sarah (Charlotte Gainsbourg, whose one-dimensional portrayal of the character makes me think that other scenes must have been left on the cutting room floor). Other reviewers have praised the actresses in Todd Haynes' latest film, but for me none of them did the trick. Cate Blanchett has been hailed as though she were the second coming of Jesus Christ, but after a few minutes of her in the Don't Look Back, Andy Warhol, Chelsea Hotel phase of Dylan's career I longed for the movie to be over. It's set up so that she appears to be having a "meet cute" romance with the British journalist who's interviewing her--they despise each other on sight, but by the end he's the only one who really understands her snd she knows it. Clever re-write of the Ballad of a Thin Man narrative, one in which the Thin Man suddenly understands more than the sneering singer of the song.
And what happened to poor Michelle Williams, forced to strut around the old set of the Jack Paar Show in a slinky mirrored gown and a Joey Heatherton wig. Is she supposed to be Edie Sedgwick? Good God almighty, my cat could have played Edie Sedgwick better than Michelle Williams, and she's a great actress! Well, Haynes has changed her name to "Coco," and maybe she's supposed to be some sort of combination of Edie and Nico.
David Cross as Allen Ginsberg scared me! All of a sudden I saw that Amber Tamblyn must see in him, an apocalyptic, Jim Jones kind of messiah figure who's not afraid to be a clown at the same time. Brrrr!
All in all I can say, I watched this movie all the way through and I appreciate the fact that Todd Haynes made it. He must be an enormously persuasive guy to have talked Dylan into it and secured the funding, etc., based on his counterintuitive reading of Dylan's nature. It's all about the big letdown of the fans, the fans who loved Dylan's folk music and then went bonkers when he went rock at Newport, and then Cate Blanchett has to answer accusations of selling out, and maybe that wasn't interesting anought to base a whole movie on, because I was like, whatever Cate.
DVD Review: um...ok, but no.
Summary: 2 Stars
i didn't get it. multiple persona's of one guy that have absolutely nothing to do with eachother. it was just hours and hours of crap that could have been done better.
brightside: full frontal heath ledger and a christian bale jewfro.
that's it. otherwise, it was mental diarrhea that was probably supposed to mean something.
Description of I'm Not There (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Inspired by the life and songs of Bob Dylan, I'm Not There is "a profoundly personal and passionate film" (A.O. Scott, The New York Times) that captures the essence of this elusive genius. Six different actors -- including Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Richard Gere and Oscar? nominee Cate Blanchett in a "soon-to-be-legendary performance" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone) - each embody part of the Dylan legend: from Greenwich Village folk singer to electric guitar trailblazer to born-again preacher. Directed by Academy Award?-nominated writer/director Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven), I'm Not There is "unquestionably the year's most original American movie" (Thelma Adams, US Weekly).Unapologetically audacious, I'm Not There is more post-modern puzzle than by-the-numbers biopic. A title card sets the scene: "Inspired by the music and many lives of Bob Dylan." Yet the film features no figure by that name. Instead, writer/director Todd Haynes presents six characters, each incarnating different stages in the artist's career. Perfume's Ben Whishaw, a black-clad poet, serves as a slippery sort of narrator. The action begins with the wanderings of an 11-year-old black runaway named "Woody Guthrie" (Marcus Carl Franklin)--his raucous duet with Richie Havens on "Tombstone Blues" is a highlight--and ends with a silver-haired Billy the Kid (Richard Gere) watching the Old West die before his eyes. In the interim, there's the folk singer-turned-preacher (Christian Bale), the actor (Heath Ledger), and the rock star (Cate Blanchett, who has Don't Look Back Dylan down to a science). The chronology is purposefully non-linear, and editor Jay Rabinowitz cuts rapidly, Jean-Luc Godard-style, between cin?ma v?rit? black-and-white and saturated color, Richard Lester-like slapstick and Fellini-inspired surrealism (Ed Lachman served as cinematographer).
What makes the picture fun for Dylan fans--and potentially frustrating for neophytes--is that every album and movie bears an alternate title. Ledger's Robbie, for instance, stars in "Grain of Sand," actually a reference to the Pete Seeger song. As in Haynes' glam rock reverie Velvet Goldmine, the trickery involves the entire cast. While Julianne Moore plays former lover Alice, a dead ringer for Joan Baez; Michelle Williams embodies elusive scenester Coco, i.e. Edie Sedgwick. If I'm Not There is less affecting than Control, the year's other big music film, it rewards repeat viewings like few biographical features. The soundtrack mixes originals with covers, like Jim James's heartfelt "Goin' to Acapulco." --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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