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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: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00147AJ8G
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,131 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

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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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11 of 12 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 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Squeezy Marmite, 17 Dec 2008
By J. S. Meins "fiftyfirstfloorfilms" (UK) - See all my reviews
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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 entertainment; it is willfully confusing, has no linear narrative and is utterly pretentious. Ironically it brings to mind the type of self indulgent film that usually gets made by pop and rock stars early on in their careers (e.g. Pet Shop Boys equally surreal "It Couldnt Happen Here"). To get the most out of this picture you need to have an excellent knowledge of Dylan's life story and an interest in abstract film making because - as a biographical piece - "I'm Not There" is useless. If Bob Dylan is like Marmite then this film is like Squeezy Marmite...a product that will split even hardcore fans right down the middle, the rest of you need not take any further notice of this failed experiment.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars A good effort
If you're looking for Bob Dylan,look elsewhere.Blanchett's performance is the highlight and the rest is somewhat lacking.
Published 3 days ago by DigSarahDig

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining verging on the bizzare
I will just say that if you are buying or watching this to see a straight biopic of Bob Dylan - think again. Read more
Published 18 days ago by M. C. Whiting

1.0 out of 5 stars A wilful waste of perfectly good plastic
The acetate used for this film and the plastic the DVD was pressed onto could have been put to far better use manufacturing novelty tat for cheap Christmas crackers, but then I'm... Read more
Published 27 days ago by J. A. Harvey

1.0 out of 5 stars It's not there
I could barely make it to the end of this film. At times it is uncomfortable to watch, being so full of cliches and weak, pretentious, meaningless blather. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Will

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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago by Mark Wallace

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 7 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 9 months ago by Teddy M

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