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"When it was over, I couldn''t move," writes David Gates in Newsweek. "Despite a couple of slow stretches - and Dylan has them, too - I''m Not There turns out to be worthy of its subject. This isn''t faint praise. It''s a full-on rave."

And now, at the main site, Sean Axmaker talks with Todd Haynes about a cinematic highlight of the year, I''m Not There.

"Todd Haynes has devised a Bob Dylan biopic that not even Dylan, for all his self-mythologizing, would have had the audacity to conceive," writes David Edelstein in New York. "Directly answering the charge - made by devastated idolaters when the singer-songwriter abandoned folky protest songs for rock in the mid-60s - that Dylan is an opportunist, a Judas, a hollow man, a fabulist who believes in nothing and picks up and discards one fake persona after another, Haynes makes a passionate case that this protean quality is, in fact, the source of Dylan''s greatness. Haynes works from the outside in, and at his most inspired (parts of Poison, Safe, Velvet Goldmine, and his little-seen Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story), he meets himself coming from the inside out - a magical fusion of mimicry and heart that''s not unlike Dylan''s."

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