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Dylan movie. Sort of.
The new Dylan biopic, starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw - all as Bob Dylan - is starting to get some coverage. As a lifelong Dylan fan, I'm excited to see the movie. The film is currently doing the rounds of the film festivals, and is going into wider release slowly from September through March (depending on your country).
Early reports only whet my appetite:
- A slew of trailers (both official and unofficial) on YouTube [HT: Cass Sunstein]
- This is Not a Bob Dylan Movie: a beautifully-written essay in today's NY Times magazine
- A wrap-up of other reviews, from filmmaker Todd Haynes
- Some extremely high variance early reviews.
An aside: From many hallway conversations, I can report that Dylan is a surprisingly popular artist among the econ gliterati.
Posted by Justin Wolfers on October 7, 2007 at 06:16 PM in Film | Permalink
Comments
am surprised Bob Dylan would be 'surprisingly popular artist among the econ gliterati' as he signaled a major 'trend reversal' of the time - the fading of the social somnambulism of the post-WWII era
Posted by: Roddy Mac at Oct 8, 2007 12:29:38 AM
I don't think the pre-Dylan-post-War era was somnambulistic as Roddy does (I may be young, but I am at least vaguely aware of things like early rock and roll and the Beats), but I will echo his main sentiment. Really, who doesn't like Dylan? When someone tells me they don't like Bob Dylan, I think they either haven't listened to him enough or they have a tin ear for genius.
Posted by: John Payne at Oct 8, 2007 2:33:02 AM
Ditto the prior two comments. Any discipline in which the high popularity of Dylan is surprising is not a discipline worth a damn. Dylan's popularity is surprising only insofar as ice cream's popularity might be surprising. Awesome things tend to be well liked.
Posted by: jhupp at Oct 8, 2007 3:01:44 AM
bill mallonee FTW.
Posted by: shawn at Oct 8, 2007 7:46:34 AM
Grammatical nitpick: You don't hyphenate a two-word phrasal adjective when the first word ends in "ly," ie, it should be "beautifully written essay."
Posted by: Wordhound at Oct 8, 2007 8:55:40 AM
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