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I watched "I'm Not There" the other day.

I'm not sure that I liked it as much as I was supposed to like it.

I thought that using 6 different actors to portray 6 phases of Dylan's life was interesting. Shooting the 6 in different ways was interesting, too.

I loved the scenes with Ledger most, not because of his recent passing, I just felt that they were the most human/touching, at least to me.

My guess is that if I was a bigger Dylan fan, I'd have liked it more.....but even more than that, I suspect that if I knew more about film itself, the technical side of it, then I'd have liked it, or at least appreciated it even more.

So, I enjoyed the film, for sure, but did not love it and cannot really see myself ever watching it again.
 
haha, fair enough, i ended up loving it much more than i expected
and prior to watching it i was looking most forward to Bale's & Ledger's parts
but in the end I gravitated towards Blanchett's and Gere's, I thoroughly enjoyed the entire film through it's different eras and styles, but there was something about those two characters that i felt strongly about. especially Gere's, those scenes stayed with me days after the first viewing. uhhh,, sadly i have seen that movie at least 4 times:reject:
 
Gere's section was my favorite, contrary to most critics and viewers. Nothing beats Blancett's final moments on screen though.
 
I didn't care for I'm Not There. It felt extremely scattered and lacking in necessary focus. To me, it felt like a biopic that purposefully avoided its topic as much as possible in order to feign artistic brilliance (to the detriment of its plot); there's oblique, and there's not knowing what the hell is going on. I could understand what they were going for as a collective whole, but it was nigh on impossible to keep up with all of the intersecting storylines. Perhaps another viewing would clear things up a bit more.

Marcus Carl Franklin's part was the most successful IMO, although the scene with the animated whale made me want to beat myself senseless with the remote control. I'm sure some of you wish I would do that right about now.
 
Hey, that was fun. thanks Lila.

I ran through it pretty fast and got 39 of 'em. I could have maybe figured out a couple more, but I decided to quit.

How do you figure out the correct answers, though? There were some that were really bugging me because I had no idea at all what they could be.
 
Hey, that was fun. thanks Lila.

I ran through it pretty fast and got 39 of 'em. I could have maybe figured out a couple more, but I decided to quit.

How do you figure out the correct answers, though? There were some that were really bugging me because I had no idea at all what they could be.

I googled film title quiz and ended up at a website that had the answers posted. Were you the only one who took it? :hmm:
 
I ask this for my edification, not as a challenge or anything.....why was the Gere section your favorite?

The Gere section really veers away from the "story" of Dylan the most. After the motorcycle accident, when he "retired" up to Woodstock, the music that came out of that period had a much more Americana feel to it, heavily laden with frontier and biblical imagery.

I liked how Haynes used this as a jumping-off point to take Dylan out of time and place him in the setting of his own music and writing. Almost everything in this section seems to be symbolic, and borrows stylistically from the films of Sam Peckinpah (Dylan actually had a small role in his Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid) and from Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller.

All the costumes and make-up in the town/funeral scenes are so striking, and I find this incarnation is the one I keep coming back to for further insight, even if Gere as a performer doesn't move me as much as Blanchett or Ledger.
 
The Gere section really veers away from the "story" of Dylan the most. After the motorcycle accident, when he "retired" up to Woodstock, the music that came out of that period had a much more Americana feel to it, heavily laden with frontier and biblical imagery.

I liked how Haynes used this as a jumping-off point to take Dylan out of time and place him in the setting of his own music and writing. Almost everything in this section seems to be symbolic, and borrows stylistically from the films of Sam Peckinpah (Dylan actually had a small role in his Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid) and from Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller.

All the costumes and make-up in the town/funeral scenes are so striking, and I find this incarnation is the one I keep coming back to for further insight, even if Gere as a performer doesn't move me as much as Blanchett or Ledger.

Thanks....
 
The Gere section really veers away from the "story" of Dylan the most. After the motorcycle accident, when he "retired" up to Woodstock, the music that came out of that period had a much more Americana feel to it, heavily laden with frontier and biblical imagery.

I liked how Haynes used this as a jumping-off point to take Dylan out of time and place him in the setting of his own music and writing. Almost everything in this section seems to be symbolic, and borrows stylistically from the films of Sam Peckinpah (Dylan actually had a small role in his Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid) and from Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller.

All the costumes and make-up in the town/funeral scenes are so striking, and I find this incarnation is the one I keep coming back to for further insight, even if Gere as a performer doesn't move me as much as Blanchett or Ledger.

Yeah... this.

I also love the symmetry Gere's section gives the entire film. When I hear certain reactions that feel his section should have been cut entirely I nearly cringe. It gives the whole film the thematic and structural balance it so greatly thrives upon.
 
When I get back home, I'll post an update on my Woody and Scorsese Fests, gang.
 
Woody Fest, so far:

1. Annie Hall *****
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors ****1/2
3. Hannah and Her Sisters ****1/2
4. Love and Death ****1/2
5. The Purple Rose of Cairo ****1/2
6. Manhattan ****1/2
7. Stardust Memories ****
8. Deconstructing Harry ****
9. Sleeper ****
10. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask ****
11. Zelig ***1/2
12. Everyone Says I Love You ***1/2
13. Radio Days ***1/2
14. Broadway Danny Rose ***1/2
15. Bullets Over Broadway ***
16. Bananas ***
17. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy ***
18. What's Up, Tiger Lily? ***
19. Melinda and Melinda **1/2

Scorsese Fest:

1. Raging Bull *****
2. GoodFellas *****
3. Mean Streets ****1/2
4. Taxi Driver ****1/2
5. Gangs of New York ****1/2
6. The Last Temptation of Christ ****1/2
7. The Departed ****1/2
8. The Age of Innocence ****
9. Casino ***1/2
10. Cape Fear ***1/2
11. The Color of Money ***

If you guys would like clarification on any of my ratings, I'd love to go into that. Right now, I'm trying to do Woody, Scorsese, and '07 releases all at a time through NetFlix, with the occasional DVR, it's working pretty well. I've got about 5 left to watch on the Woody set, too.
 
YLB, how incredible was DeNiro in Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Mean Streets? I think people sometimes forget how awesome this guy was.

I don't think I've seen anything like it. Even D-Day in Gangs, TWBB, and Mohicans had some similarities.

Raging Bull had my favorite performance of his, but the other two are close. I was surprised at how subdued he was in Taxi Driver until the very end - it didn't hit me as much as Mean Streets (performance-wise and as a whole), but was still a great film. I'll have to watch it again to pick up on a few things I felt I missed.

All three were watched on a regular TV, too. That's fucking spectacular in and of itself.
 
They're baaaaaaaaaaaack!

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Get excited.
 
My pants just traveled a little.

And YLB, did you ever go into detail on Cape Fear? I think it's one of the more underrated Marty films.

That was one of the first of his films that I had seen. I'll need to re-watch it to get a better opinion on it. I do remember enjoying the Hitchcock pastiche mixed with the psychedelia... and the 4th of July sequence.
 
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