Upcoming Flick About Life Of Dylan

Here's a trailer for the upcoming movie about the irrepressible artist known as Bob Dylan, starring many actors playing Dylan across his career, these include Cate Blanchett as the early Bob Dylan and David Cross as Allen Ginsberg.

Here's a snippet from a 2006 article published in Slate magazine:

Dylan and Staples had a musical reunion in 2002 to record his gospel number "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking," and, compared to the 1979 version, Dylan sounds not like a white Negro but a soul survivor. When he rasps about sitting at the "welcome table," he sounds like he's earned his right to sing the blues. Dylan and Staples' intonation and phrasing wouldn't have sounded so uncannily alike back when she was rebuffing his proposal. This is the millennial Dylan who shouts out to Keys on his latest record, a Dylan who is curious about Keys because he has already made himself more like her—the kind of affinity not lost on Todd Haynes when he considered casting Beyoncé as one of the six actors playing Dylan in his upcoming biopic I'm Not There. Dylan's earlier lyrics alluded to his interracial eroticism, but a more recent lyric could apply to his transformation. He's not dark yet, but he's getting there.

Read it all here at Slate.

An Odd Film About Bob Dylan

Here's a short clip of the Bob Dylan movie I'm Not There with Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan and David Cross as Allen Ginsberg. The movie goes through Dylan's life with different actors playing in different stages. Among those playing him are Christian Bale, Marcus Carl Franklin (Lackawanna Blues), Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw (Perfume), and, of course, Cate Blanchett. The film is scheduled for release in the US on September 21.