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You ain't him!
Jan. 2nd, 2008 09:13 pmIn the lull between Christmas and New Year we went to the Tyneside Cinema to see I'm Not There, Todd Haynes' fantasia on the lives and legends of Bob Dylan. Of the four of us who went together, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
durham_rambler and I are the hardcore Dylan fans, and we enjoyed it. I was quite happy to treat it as an extended music video (very extended, admittedly: it could have lost half an hour or more, and been the better for it. But even at 135 minutes, it's shorter than Renaldo and Clara) - plenty of Dylan recordings, pretty pictures to look at, in-jokes and references to disentangle... Our companions (who accompanied us, I suspect, on the basis that a movie's a movie, a phenomenon's a phenomenon, and that a movie about a major cultural figure must have something to offer to the general viewer) were not impressed.
( Cut for length, but I shall assume that you can't spoiler something that doesn't really have a plot; if you disagree, take this as a warning. )
durham_rambler and I are the hardcore Dylan fans, and we enjoyed it. I was quite happy to treat it as an extended music video (very extended, admittedly: it could have lost half an hour or more, and been the better for it. But even at 135 minutes, it's shorter than Renaldo and Clara) - plenty of Dylan recordings, pretty pictures to look at, in-jokes and references to disentangle... Our companions (who accompanied us, I suspect, on the basis that a movie's a movie, a phenomenon's a phenomenon, and that a movie about a major cultural figure must have something to offer to the general viewer) were not impressed.( Cut for length, but I shall assume that you can't spoiler something that doesn't really have a plot; if you disagree, take this as a warning. )
