Cate Blanchett in the new Dylan film

[Sydneyfan]

Hmmm......I like Todd Haynes as a director, but I'm not sure about the concept for this film. Still, chances are it won't be dull.

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[blueone]

Heard of this film a few months ago. Weird concept, isn't it? Loads of different actors to play Dylan over his whole life. :\

Could be good if it works good.

[Sydneyfan]

Heard of this film a few months ago. Weird concept, isn't it? Loads of different actors to play Dylan over his whole life. :\

Could be good if it works good.

Yep, I get the feeling that it's either going to be fantastic and break new cinematic ground, or be a complete train wreck.

[blueone]

Aye. And it will probably confuse the fuck out of people if they didn't know beforehand.

[la twinkle]

I loved Velvet Goldmine, this could be very interesting... The again, I just went on IMBD I never realised he did Far From Heaven (with juliane Moore) that was so boring, surprisly so.

Christian Bale ... Bob Dylan/John/Jack
Cate Blanchett ... Bob Dylan/Jude
Marcus Carl Franklin ... Bob Dylan/Woody
Richard Gere ... Bob Dylan/Billy
Heath Ledger ... Bob Dylan
Ben Whishaw ... Bob Dylan/Arthur

This does actually look confusing alreadly.

[taparoo]

That was cool. Though Cate reminded me more of Michael Jackson than Dylan :lol

[FrigidRoses]

When is this supposed to come out?

[Sydneyfan]

When is this supposed to come out?

21 Nov in the USA (limited release)
26 December in Australia.

btw, has anyone seen Palindromes, directed by Todd Solondz? It has a similar plot device - different people playing the same character. It worked okay, but I guess the difference is that in Haynes' film the character in question is Bob Dylan. That's much more a challenge to pull off I think.

[clewis]

http://www.worstpreviews.com/images/posters/imnotthere/imnotthere1_large.jpg

[Sydneyfan]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a312/cindydowling/dylan2.jpg

Richard Gere as Dylan




http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a312/cindydowling/dylan1.jpg

Heath Ledger as Dylan

[raisemyglass]

I don't know, Richard Gere as Dylan looks pretty horrible.

[taparoo]

I don't know, Richard Gere has Dylan looks pretty horrible.
agreed. He doesn't look convincing at all imo

[SkortBrun]

21 Nov in the USA (limited release)

What a nice birthday present for me. Too bad I live in the middle of nowheres and probably won't be able to see this until it gets released on DVD. (I'm also assuming that the USA and Canada release dates are the same).

I don't know, Richard Gere has Dylan looks pretty horrible.

Agreed. Or maybe I'm just forgetting Dylan's filthy old hobo period.

[Sydneyfan]

Its being launched at the Toronto Film Festival in September apparently, but I can't find a proper Canadian release date. So yeah, possibly the same time as the US I guess.

[blueone]

That Ledger bloke looks less like Dylan that the hobo man.

[Sydneyfan]

from Rolling Stone:

Sometimes, life is good: Last night Rolling Stone got an exclusive screening of the new Todd Haynes film I’m Not There in which six actors portray Bob Dylan. We’re pretty much sworn to secrecy, but can’t resist giving you a few highlights:

• Cate Blanchett as Dylan, meeting Brian Jones at a party and calling the Rolling Stones a “groovy covers band,” then screaming “play your old stuff” at a statue of Jesus Christ alongside David Cross as Allen Ginsberg.

• Christian Bale as the late-’70s born-again Dylan, sermonizing about Christ and delivering the hidden Dylan gospel classic “Pressing On,” from Saved, sung by John Doe.

• My Morning Jacket’s Jim James’ heartbreaking rendition of the basement tapes chestnut “Goin’ to Acapulco” in full Rolling Thunder Review white face.

• Sonic Youth’s brilliant version of the unreleased Dylan classic “I’m Not There” from the basement tapes session that plays during the closing credits.

[blueone]

Jim James!

[hildegoat]

The full soundtrack tracklisting is at Prefix:


“All Along The Watchtower” - Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers
“As I Went Out One Morning” - Mira Billotte
“Ballad Of A Thin Man” - Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers
“Billy” - Los Lobos
“Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window” - The Hold Steady
“Can’t Leave Her Behind” - Stephen Malkmus & Lee Ranaldo
“Cold Irons Bound” - Tom Verlaine & The Million Dollar Bashers
“Dark Eyes” - Iron & Wine & Calexico
“Fourth Time Around” - Yo La Tengo
“Goin’ To Acapulco” - Jim James & Calexico
“Highway 61 Revisited” - Karen O & The Million Dollar Bashers
“I Wanna Be Your Lover” - Yo La Tengo
“I’m Not There” - Bob Dylan
“I’m Not There” - Sonic Youth
“Just Like A Woman” - Charlotte Gainsbourg & Calexico
“Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” - Ramblin’ Jack Elliot
“Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” - Antony & The Johnsons
“The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll” - Mason Jennings
“Maggie’s Farm” - Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers
“Mama You’ve Been On My Mind” - Jack Johnson
“The Man In The Long Black Coat” - Mark Lanegan
“Moonshiner” - Bob Forrest
“One More Cup Of Coffee” - Roger McGuinn & Calexico
“Pressing On” - John Doe
“Ring Them Bells” - Sufjan Stevens
“Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)” - Willie Nelson & Calexico
“Simple Twist Of Fate” - Jeff Tweedy
“Stuck Inside Of Mobile With Memphis Blues Again” - Cat Power
“The Times They Are A Changin’” - Mason Jennings
“Tombstone Blues” - Richie Havens
“When The Ship Comes In” - Marcus Carl Franklin
“Wicked Messenger” - The Black Keys
“You Ain’t Goin ‘Nowhere” - Glen Hansard & Markta Irglov


http://www.prefixmag.com/blog/im-not-there-soundtrack-tracklist/6703#more-6703

[raisemyglass]

Nice to see 2 tracks by probably my second favorite artist, a relatively unknown from my hometown of MPLS.

“The Times They Are A Changin’” - Mason Jennings
“The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll” - Mason Jennings

[blueone]

"Knockin' On Heaven's Door" by Antony & the Johnsons should be a treat. :)

[hildegoat]

New Trailer:

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[Sydneyfan]

In one of the more bizarre transformations seen on screen, Cate Blanchett was unveiled as Bob Dylan at the premiere of Todd Haynes's I'm Not There at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday night.

I'm Not There investigates the life of Dylan as a series of different personas, given fictional names and played by different actors, representing his successive phases as a folk purist, protest singer, media celebrity and Christian convert.

Blanchett plays Dylan at his most elusive, at the time when he was widely reviled for rejecting folk styles in favour of electric guitars. Pursued by the media and asked constantly to explain himself, he became - as depicted in I'm Not There - increasingly withdrawn and cryptic.

Heath Ledger plays a domestic version of Dylan, living in relative seclusion with his wife and children in the late '60s. Christian Bale turns his hand to two Dylans - the early '60s protest icon and the rather alarming born-again Christian who surfaced in 1979. Ben Whishaw, a 26-year-old English actor, embodies Dylan's "poetic side" in the form of a figure named Arthur, and Richard Gere does the 32-year-old Dylan of 1973, despite being 57.

Critics agree, however, that Blanchett is the most convincing, her appearance transformed by wig and dark glasses and her walk and speaking voice almost uncannily like the original's.

Haynes says he wanted to cast Blanchett because the Dylan of that period is now so familiar as a pop music icon that he needed some radical device to convey how extraordinary and eccentric he seemed to mid-'60s contemporaries. His solution was to cast a woman.

"Cate was scared," Haynes says. "She told me many times that this was a very scary challenge for her and I think it took her a long time to commit to the role. She is a very busy actor, and she has to balance her schedule, but I think it was mainly terror, which is completely understandable. I was terrified."

It is the first time Dylan has given permission for his life to be used on film, he says.

Ledger says he has been interested in trying to bring the life of the '70s singer Nick Drake on screen. "For the longest time I was obsessed with his story and I pursued it and still have plans to tell his story, but they faded because he was a mysterious figure and it would be a process of me guessing what he would say and how he walked and so I felt like I would be defaming him."

Asked to nominate his favourite Dylan song, he opted for She Belongs to Me.

Gere nominated Visions of Johanna. "I can't imagine my life without it; I have played it hundreds of times," he says. "But it's impossible to name a favourite Dylan song; there are so many."

Gere says Dylan is the only contemporary artist who will still be discussed in 300 years. "Not Picasso. Bob Dylan."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/blanchett-nails-classic-dylan/2007/09/05/1188783314342.html