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| I'm Not There (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Todd Haynes
Actors: Christian Bale, David Cross, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Richard Gere, Bruce Greenwood
Studio: Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  98 reviews
Sales Rank: 1726
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 135
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WEID81090D
UPC: 796019810906
EAN: 0796019810906
ASIN: B0013D8L7C
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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 No more! May 10, 2008
10 out of 18 found this review helpful
There was a time in the sixties when I used to gobble down anything they trew at me, even sitar music, just as long as it was cool, NO MORE! I snaped out of it before the sixties ended, thank God, and grew a critical brain (kept the long hair however). I'm a simple soul and to me watching this pseudo intellectual movie is a waste of time, you want to know about Dylan watch the Scorsese documentary.
 I'm Not There February 21, 2008
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
I am thirteen. I just didnt want to use my parents account.
I just saw this movie two nights ago. It is the best movie in the world and about the best musician in the world. This isnt like any biography movie. He is portrade by six differnt actors. If you don't know much about Dylan you wouldnt understand alot of refrences. All the Dylans in this movie represent him. Like Christian Bales character represent when he was a young folk artist and later in the movie when he became a born-again christian. His name is not in the movie either. Like one time a women says something and Jude Quinn answers "Just Like a Women" like the song. Its to hard to explain in a review. You just have to see it for your self. I also thought the women who plays Alice Fabian( who represents Joan Baez) lookes alot like her.
 Lacks Focus and Insight December 13, 2007
8 out of 18 found this review helpful
I'm not sure what director Todd Haynes ("Far from Heaven") is trying to accomplish with "I'm Not There", his new biography, of sorts, of Bob Dylan.
Different actors each play Dylan, at different points in his life, or maybe they play different aspects of Dylan's persona. So, we have Cate Blanchett playing "Jude Quinn", Richard Gere playing "Billy the Kidd", Ben Whishaw as "Arthur Rimbaud", Marcus Carl Franklin portraying "Woody Guthrie", Christian Bale as "Jack Rollins" and Heath Ledger playing "Robbie Clark". But if each of these actors is playing a different part of Bob Dylan's life, why do they all have different names? Why is Richard Gere's "Billy the Kidd" living in 1880s Missouri? Why is a young, black kid playing "Woody Guthrie". Why is one of the Dylan personas named after a famous poet?
I get Haynes' idea of having different people playing different parts of the musician's life; Dylan has had many facets to his persona and his life. But naming each of these personas doesn't really make any sense.
Cate Blanchett is really the only one who makes an effort to evoke what we know of Dylan. She both looks and acts like our image of the famous singer. Maybe that is Haynes point; we really know very little about the singer - songwriter. But if what he is presenting here is supposed to be factual, in any way, how does Gere's "Billy the Kid" fit into the picture?
Christian Bale, one of the more interesting actors working in Hollywood today, plays his part of the puzzle that is Bob Dylan, largely through still photographs and concert performances relayed to us through clips in a VH1- style "Where are they now?" type of documentary. He almost never appears on screen long enough to give his character any life.
The film also shifts back and forth between the various characters, shifting our attention back and forth between various times and stages in the subject's life. This isn't a bad thing, it just makes us pay more attention to everything, to keep up with the story. And when the story is lacking or meanders, these moments become glaringly obvious.
But what is the story? It's hard to say. Haynes seems to be trying to create a poem of sorts, shifting back and forth between the various elements, painting little dabs of something here and little dabs of something there. This is an interesting idea, but we never get a fully realized idea of what Haynes is trying to say or depict. So all of the shifting back and forth merely becomes a tiring exercise in trying to keep up with the director. When you finally realize all of this work was for naught, you will probably feel let down.
As let down as I was, because I felt like I had learned nothing new about the icon's life.
I am all for a filmmaker trying to paint a portrait of a difficult to understand artist, but we are never even sure if that is Haynes' thesis about Dylan. Is he difficult to understand? Is that why he chooses to show little snippets here and there, using different actors to portray different people who are supposed to be Dylan? I'm not sure. Generally, if a film is attempting to portray a difficult to understand person or theme and goes to these lengths to create this portrayal, the director should at least have a clear vision of what he is trying to accomplish I don't feel Haynes has this. He seems to be trying to work out what he wants to say as the film rolls. And this just creates confusion.
Cate Blanchett earned the Oscar February 3, 2008
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
I just saw this movie last night and was enthralled. If you didn't know it, you'd think Cate Blanchett was really the young Bob Dylan. In this movie several actors portray the various aspects of Dylan's life. The movie could be categorized as a mocumentary but it goes way beyond that into the realm of art. The images are mesmerizing, a feast for the eyes. And of course there's Dylan whose music is at the core of everything, running the entire length of the movie.
Load of Pretentious Crap May 13, 2008
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
This movie was the biggest load of pretentious crap that I've seen in a long time. It was every bit as incomprehensible as I find Bob Dylan himself. I guess that makes the filmmaker successful. To paraphrase the title, it made me wish I wasn't there when we watched it. Unless you're a Dylan fan, don't bother.
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