Far out, man...
A clip from the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There has leaked (or was leaked) on YouTube.
It features Cate Blanchett playing a young Dylan (and she is, eerily, a ringer for the Dylan in one of my favorite rock docs, Don't Look Back) in a strange conversation with Allenn Ginsberg (played by one of my favorite comics, David Cross of Mr. Show and Arrested Development).
The guy who plays...that is supposed to be John Lennon, right?...is kinda crap. But otherwise it looks like it's very interesting.
UPDATE:
For comparison, here's Dylan being punk before it was cool from D.A. Pennebaker's 1967 documentary Don't Look Back. In the clip he suggests that Time Magazine doesn't print THE TRUTH -- because if they did they'd print just pictures of "a tramp vomiting into the sewer" next to "Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C.W. Jones."
HEA-VY.
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Wow, I never thought Dylan looked that feminine, but looking at the front of The Times They Are A-Changin', he does kind of look like a female cartoonist in Portland that's fond of gender-screwing.
Makes me nervous who would get cast in my biopic. A nine-year-old girl with a Furby on her head?
Posted on July 17, 2007 4:54 PM
Cate Blanchett is terrific -- so I'm not surprised she can pull it off.
Have you ever seen D.A. Pennebaker's Don't Look Back? It's really good -- and there are moments where he seems like some sort of androgynous alien a decade ahead of David Bowie.
Also -- I had almost forgotten about Furby.
Posted on July 17, 2007 5:03 PM