There are those who will applaud what Haynes and
There are those who will applaud what Haynes and his actors have accomplished, and I can understand its appeal on an intellectual level. But I am not a supporter of film without form or art without structure. Even if you’re one of those viewers who finds Haynes an overly cerebral director I’m not, the music provides an emotional scaffolding that sustains the film. I’m Not There dvd Anyone can make a bad movie, but it takes a good filmmaker to make one as bad as I’m Not There. It doesn’t all work and it runs too long. But every fragment of Dylans life, every version of him, from the funny to the tippy, rings true. takes us laughin, spinnin, swingin madly across the screen with Dylan metaphors and anecdotes Writer-director Todd Haynes has come up with the most interesting psycho-cultural-biographical mix in memory here, managing to make the film reek of the artsy 60s at the same time it unfailingly honors its subject.