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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:14 am
by chaddoli
I really think this will be the best film of the year.
Whatever I hear about this project, no matter how bizaar, it just aids to its potential. I, like Bob Dylan, completely trust Haynes.
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:18 am
by tavernier
Don't forget: Dylan also trusted Twyla Tharp with his music for the Broadway musical "The Times They Are A-Changin'," which was an epic disaster.
"Fool me once, shame on you....fool me twice: won't get fooled again."--Shrub
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:03 am
by Antoine Doinel
chaddoli wrote:I really think this will be the best film of the year.
Whatever I hear about this project, no matter how bizaar, it just aids to its potential. I, like Bob Dylan, completely trust Haynes.
While I don't think it will be the best film of the year, it will certainly be one of the most fascinating. I'm not even a Dylan fan, but the approach itself is so unique and so right for a person of such magnitude. A traditional biopic approach would be completely wrong.
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:00 pm
by David Ehrenstein
Don't forget: Dylan also trusted Twyla Tharp with his music for the Broadway musical "The Times They Are A-Changin'," which was an epic disaster.
Todd's no Twyla.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:08 pm
by Matt
Apparently,
Stephen Malkmus is involved in this film, possibly supplying the vocals for one of the Dylans.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:12 pm
by domino harvey
that is amazing news!
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:18 pm
by Antoine Doinel
Will Oldham was also asked to do cover versions of Dylan songs for the film, but they will not be used. From the Guardian:
It's a piquant coincidence that Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's imminent single features bonus cover versions of Bob Dylan songs - 'Going To Acapulco' and 'Senor'. Dylan is, of course, the original master at this game of cat-and-mouse.
'The songs were basically assignments,' Oldham explains; aborted from Todd Haynes' forthcoming Dylan film when Oldham and the film's musical director hit an impasse.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:43 pm
by SheriffAmbrose
Matt wrote:Apparently,
Stephen Malkmus is involved in this film, possibly supplying the vocals for one of the Dylans.
This is fairly old news. He recorded "Maggie's Farm" and "Ballad of a Thin Man". The recordings were produced by Lee Renaldo and will be included in the 1965 Newport Folk Festival segment.
Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 12:34 am
by The Fanciful Norwegian
No great surprise here, but Variety
reports that this is a "lock" for Venice (some other potential entries are mentioned as well).
Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 12:50 am
by David Ehrenstein
Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:04 pm
by David Ehrenstein
Good question.
Todd's such a busy cinematic genius.
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:42 am
by Jeff
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:33 pm
by Antoine Doinel
Thurston Moore
reveals that Sonic Youth have recorded a version of "I'm Not There" for possible use in the film.
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:41 pm
by Rich Malloy
Wow... one of my favorite Dylan tunes. Hard to imagine such a low-key (albeit emotionally hard-hitting) tune done by Sonic Youth. I hope "Goin' to Acapulco" makes it in somewhere, even if not Oldman's versions.
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:56 pm
by Antoine Doinel
Sonic Youth can be quite suprising sometimes. Their cover of The Carpenter's "Superstar" is really quite haunting and subdued.
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:45 pm
by miless
Antoine Doinel wrote:Sonic Youth can be quite suprising sometimes. Their cover of The Carpenter's "Superstar" is really quite haunting and subdued.
and it is Thurston Moore solo (which can be quite haunting)
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:01 pm
by patrick
While I don't think it will be the best film of the year, it will certainly be one of the most fascinating.
This is the attitude I'm taking at the moment, but I can't think of any other current film that has the "what is it?" factor that this one has. I don't think anyone will have a real clue what this movie will be like until they see it, and I love that.
And for some reason, I'm really looking forward to seeing David Cross as Ginsberg.
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:33 pm
by miless
patrick wrote:This is the attitude I'm taking at the moment, but I can't think of any other current film that has the "what is it?" factor that this one has.
The other one, in production right now, that has this "what is it factor" is Todd Solondz's new film
Life During Wartime... which is a sequal to both Happiness and Welcome to the Dollhouse... and sports an entirely different cast (playing the same characters) from those two films.
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:44 am
by Floyd
Rich Malloy wrote:Wow... one of my favorite Dylan tunes. Hard to imagine such a low-key (albeit emotionally hard-hitting) tune done by Sonic Youth. I hope "Goin' to Acapulco" makes it in somewhere, even if not Oldman's versions.
From what I understand "Goin' To Acapulco" was done by Jim James (My Morning Jacket) which I personally was excited to hear. I have seen My Morning Jacket a few times starting from their beginning to now and it is always such a musically great and fun show. They are opening for Dylan at Red Rocks not far from now actually. I hope his version can make it in somehow.
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:08 am
by chaddoli
miless wrote:The other one, in production right now, that has this "what is it factor" is Todd Solondz's new film Life During Wartime... which is a sequal to both Happiness and Welcome to the Dollhouse... and sports an entirely different cast (playing the same characters) from those two films.
I've read the script to Solondz's new film. It does not have the same mystery.
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:11 am
by Jeff
Here's a
clip of Blanchett as Dylan. The film opens in limited release November 21.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:55 pm
by dadaistnun
It's scope? I'm surprised. I've always thought of Haynes as a 1.85 or narrower guy, just as I can't imagine Cronenberg working wider than that ratio either.
I wonder if the entire film is black and white.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:03 pm
by Dylan
Very impressive, Blanchett makes a great Dylan (and black and white 'Scope is always a treat). Also, the music at the end of the clip is by Nino Rota from Fellini's Casanova... I wonder if that will actually be in the film, or if it's just in the temp track.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:06 pm
by Len
Casting Cross as Ginsberg is all kinds of genius. Love the clip, can't wait for the film.
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:23 am
by Antoine Doinel
GREAT clip. I hand't realized it was David Cross until after and indeed, it is brilliant casting. I can't wait to see this.
