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  • Actors: Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Marcus Carl Franklin
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 14 Jul 2008
  • Run Time: 130 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00147AJ8G
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,759 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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 cinéma vérité black-and-white and saturated colour, 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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- A conversation with Todd Haynes

- The making of the soundtrack

- A tribute to Heath Ledger



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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars the six degrees of Dylan, 19 Mar 2008
Todd Haynes showcases the music, myth and legend of Bob Dylan for all to see. In I'm Not There, Dylan is portrayed in stages (mirroring his rise to fame)by a bevy of talented actors. Playing the skinny, androgynous Dylan in his early years, Cate Blanchett shines. She has every twitch, every disdainful look, every sarcastic comment down pat.

There's also Marcus Carl Franklin as a young, black Dylan struggling to emulate his idol, Woody Guthrie. Then there's British actor Ben Whishaw, paying tribute to Dylan's admiration of Arthur Rimbaud. Christian Bale shines as a prophetic version of Dylan, and Heath Ledger delivers an amazing performance as an actor playing Dylan on screen as his marriage falls apart. Finally there's Richard Gere (in perhaps the weakest segment of all) as an aging gun slinger who goes into exile à la Dylan after his 1966 motorcycle crash.

This is high, high art. You'll hear much about Cate Blanchett's portrayal, and rightfully so as she nailed it. But pay close attention to Ben Whishaw as well. For me he was the one to shine.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Six other sides of Dylan, one great Haynes film!, 27 Feb 2008
By Max Fournier (Venice, Italy) - See all my reviews
Todd Haynes' I'm Not There is a hugely exciting and incredibly beautiful film. It gives a sweeping view not just of Dylan's music, but also of his times from the 1950s to the 1980s. It is also the first time that Dylan has licensed his entire back catalogue to be used in a film.
Deservedly the film received a special Jury prize and a best actress award for Cate Blanchett at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.
Dylan is played by six different actors, playing six abstractions of his personality. Each of these abstractions inhabit a cinematic world of their own, the associations stretching from Fellini's 8 ½, Hal Ashby's Shampoo to made-for-television documentaries of the early 1980s. Maverick cinematographer Ed Lachman recently said that Haynes created the rhythms of the Dylan's music in the film, using free-associations you're allowed in music and reinterpreting those as film.
This is a film that eschews the easy biopic route, forcing the spectators to use their own intelligence. It is the closest any film can ever hope to get to Dylan's music and his own Chronicles. If someone calls this film pretentious, it is only as pretentious as Dylan himself, in that he always played with peoples expectations and tried something unpredictably new. I'm Not There certainly deserves to be seen more than once and preferably on a very big screen. Don't believe those bad reviewers, they are liars.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars the old, weird america, 26 May 2008
By R. S. Everatt (WHITSTABLE, KENT United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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I'd really just like to say a word or two to those who persist in describing the Richard Gere segment of this film as its weakest point: please go back and listen to The Basement Tapes, pay attention to the sleevenotes, and if you've got the time and intellectual energy, read Greil Marcus's Invisible Republic. You will recognise all the strange characters who populate that eerie place that seems to hover between this world and some other (Marcus's Invisible Republic, or The Old, Weird America), and you will see why Gere's character is so crucial to this kaleidoscopic view of Dylan's art. I found this part of Haynes's admirably ambitious movie to be the most thrilling, and Jim James's otherworldly rendition of Goin' To Acapulco the most stunning piece of music (outside Dylan's own, naturally). Much of Dylan's best work seems always to be just beyond our grasp, which is partly why it is so compelling, but there are gateways to a deeper understanding available to us if we can be bothered to look for them. Like all gateways they can let us in or they can keep us out. Our choice.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
At last an attempt at a filmic approach to Dylan ,what with the modern
updates by contemporary artists bringing a similar energy to the original in the tracks played. Read more
Published 1 month ago by technoguy

1.0 out of 5 stars Pretentious art-twaddle
I suppose Cate Blanchett's performance is a highlight amongst the dross but really this sort of nonsense should not be encouraged.
Published 1 month ago by David Thompson

3.0 out of 5 stars It might just be because I'm not a Bob Dylan fan.......
It might just be because I'm not a Bob Dylan fan.......but i really dont like this film. I understand that this is suppose to be more of a conceptual biopic but this idea of... Read more
Published 1 month ago by M. Johnston

2.0 out of 5 stars Jaw-droppingly pretentious
I'm Not There purports to be a biography of Bob Dylan, one which employs six different actors to portray different aspects of Dylan's personality. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Fredward Beasley

2.0 out of 5 stars He's not there either
This was a bold effort to make sense of Dylan's life but the dialogue, which is often just lines from the songs pretending to be dialogue, is unconvincing and often merely... Read more
Published 3 months ago by John A Marr

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Recommended
Whilst I don't regret bothering to watch this film, I have to say that I wish I hadn't bought it. The acting may be superb, but the segmented nature of the film is surprisingly... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Teddy M

4.0 out of 5 stars Really enjoyed this
I've viewed this a few times now. It's that kind of film. I went to see it when it came out and eventually ended up buying the DVD. It rewards repeated viewings. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. T. Leighton-Boyce

1.0 out of 5 stars Depressingly bad
This film is total rubbish, one of the worst i've ever seen, it contains very little about Bob Dylan himself and is just full of idiotic actors who have obviously never listened... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. C. A. Buckley

2.0 out of 5 stars Squeezy Marmite
I'm Not There is an absolutely beautiful looking film with a superb cast all on top of their game. Unfortunately it is also practically impossible to watch as traditional... Read more
Published 6 months ago by J. S. Meins

1.0 out of 5 stars Words fail, but not as much as the film...
A much more interesting and watchable film may have emerged if the Hayden Christianson 'Dylan' character from 'Factory Girl' was juxtaposed with Cate Blanchett's 'Dylan' character... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Ms. Felicia Davis-burden

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