Six ‘ Dylans’ in one Oscar-tipped movie, one of them played by Cate Blanchett? It might sound confusing to you, but I’m Not There provided a moment of glorious clarity in the life of the director Todd Haynes
When Todd Haynes makes a film about popular music, it’s advisable not to anticipate something in the mould of Walk the Line, or Ray. His 1987 debut, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, enlisted a cast of Barbie dolls to transform the life of the tragic MOR singer into a critique of consumerist America. And his 1998 celebration of glam rock, the sadly unloved Velvet Goldmine, began with the infant Oscar Wilde being delivered to his parents’ doorstep by flying saucer before declaring, at the age of five, his ambition to become a pop idol... [The director's guide to I’m Not There, From , December 2, 2007]
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