A film by Todd Haynes
Screenplay by Todd Haynes & Oren Moverman

“A masterwork! Incandescent! Haynes's film throws a Molotov cocktail through the façade of the Hollywood biopic factory! At once teasingly arcane and bracingly plain-spoken. It feels like a pop earthquake. Like Subterranean Homesick Blues, it invites endless interpretation, criticism and elaboration. A profoundly moving personal film, passionate in its engagement with the mysteries of the recent past. What you see is the imagination unleashed – the chimes of freedom flashing.”
– A.O. Scott, The New York Times

“Todd Haynes's imaginative tour de force”
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

“The imaginative feat of the year! 
If there is a director at work today to trust with your musical legacy– as Dylan has – it's Haynes.  Essential viewing!”
– Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY

“The movie of the year!  Haynes's 135-minute phantasmagoria.  Doggedly pop-modernist in its layered, non-linear, post- CITIZEN KANE structure and strategically applied Dylanology. (The movie) is a unique collaboration. It's an essay that derives its intellectual force from the idea of Bob Dylan, and its emotional depth from his songs.”
– J. Hoberman, Village Voice

“A movie about the struggle to negotiate freedom, creativity, and political integrity in a media-addled culture
at a time of war, I'M NOT THERE has everything and nothing to do with Bob Dylan. Ceaselessly amazing.”
– Nathan Lee, Village Voice

“An unmissable movie event! Todd Haynes is a mischievous visionary.A feast for the eyes, the ears and the Dylanologist scratching around our minds and hearts.  Cate Blanchett burns through Haynes' head-rip odyssey like an illuminating torch.  A soon-to-be-legendary performance.  Haynes, who collaborated with Oren Moverman on the deftly intricate script, blends film styles from Jean-Luc Godard to Richard Lester.”
– Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

– John Anderson, Newsday

 “Undoubtedly the most mysterious of this season's much-anticipated films…
The film is the fall's biggest artistic gamble, in the spirit of Dylan at his most playfully provocative.”
– Logan Hill , New York Magazine

“Vividly imagined. No movie this season is likely to polarize critics and audiences more.”  – Jack Mathews, Daily News

“The season's big-ticket rock pic.” – The New York Post

“Singular haunting beauty… a thrilling deep-vision meditation…a folk-rock essay, and a dream, all wrapped into one.
It plays like the headiest musical ever made. Packs every frame with flesh-and-blood passion.
Blanchett is the film's most exquisitely spot-on Bob.” 
– Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

“The many faces of the music legend dazzle.” – Roger Moore, The Wall St. Journal

“Visually robust and ceaselessly imaginative.  Remarkable, resonant, beautiful.
Masterfully capitalizes on the hidden strength of CinemaScope photography. Rich supporting performances.”
– Bruce Bennett, The New York Sun

“Already notorious! Immediately engaging. In the strongest performance of her career, Cate Blanchett.
Leaving the theater, you are already on your way back in.”
– Greil Marcus, Interview

“Thrilling brilliance of the filmmaking (aided by the remarkable cinematographer Ed Lachman)”
– Keith Phipps, The Onion

“INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC AND MANY LIVES OF BOB DYLAN” reads the opening title. Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Christian Bale all take a crack at him; Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams and Charlotte Gainsbourg appear as some of his women. But it is Blanchett as Dylan circa 1965 (think D.A. Pennebaker’s DONT LOOK BACK; which played at Film Forum in February) and as the post-acoustic guitar rocker, who captures our imagination and runs with it at breakneck speed. As the emaciated, cigarette-smoking, nasal-voiced enfant terrible, his hair backlit to suggest a depraved angel, he torments journalists, fans and girlfriends alike. Appearances by imaginary versions of Allen Ginsberg, Edie Sedgwick, Suze Rotolo, Bobby Neuwirth, Bobby Seale, Albert Grossman and Joan Baez round out Haynes’s fever dream of what it means to be Bob Dylan.

Produced by Christine Vachon, James D. Stern, John Sloss and John Goldwyn
Film Consultant: Jeff Rosen
USA • 2007 • 135 Minutes • The Weinstein Company

Links:

• Official web site for I'M NOT THERE
• Click here to read the New York Times Magazine feature story on Todd Haynes and I'M NOT THERE
• Click here to read the New York Times review by A.O. Scott
• Click here to read J. Hoberman's Village Voice cover story on I'M NOT THERE and Dylan in the movies