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Friday, July 05, 2002
DYLAN TRIES THE
SCREEN AGAIN
By RICHARD JOHNSON
with Paula Froelich and Chris Wilson
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BOB Dylan is returning to movies after a 15-year hiatus, and his co-star Mickey Rourke says the mush-mouthed minstrel is brilliant.
In "Masked and Anonymous," currently filming in L.A., Dylan, 61, plays Jack Fate, an aging rock star who is released from prison to play one last concert in an attempt to save the world. Rourke plays a post-apocalyptic president of the United States and Dylan's childhood friend.
"Dylan is doing an incredible [bleep]ing job," Rourke tells writer Steve Garbarino.
For the past two years Dylan has been developing the BBC-funded flick, based on a short story by Enrique Morales, with "Seinfeld" co-producer Larry Charles, who's also directing. Dylan has kept the $15 million project shrouded in secrecy, but it reportedly will feature 40 minutes of live concert footage.
That might or might not be a good thing. In a recent review of a Dylan concert, the London Observer termed his performance "enigmatic," "competent-going-on-weird" and "baroque at best, grotesque at worst."
Rounding out the cast - most of whom are working for scale out of admiration for Dylan - are Penelope Cruz, who plays a hooker and girlfriend of "journalist" Jeff Bridges; Jessica Lange, who plays a cynical concert promoter; and John Goodman, who plays Dylan's agent.
Christian Slater, Val Kilmer, Cheech Marin, Angela Bassett, Luke Wilson, Ed Harris, Giovanni Ribisi, Bruce Dern, Chris Penn and "Mulholland Drive" sexpot Laura Harring all have cameos. "It is very bold, not heavy and portentous, but very witty and wry," BBC Films head David Thompson told the London Daily Telegraph.
The movie, due out early next year and expected to premiere at Cannes or Sundance, is supposed to wrap in two weeks. Dylan, who won an Oscar for Best Original Song last year for "Things Have Changed" from "Wonder Boys," is no doubt hoping for a shot at another Academy Award.
If Rourke is right and Dylan's doing a good job, it will surprise the critics. His last starring role was also as an aging rocker in the 1987 straight-to-video flop "Hearts of Fire."
Before that, Dylan's last screen appearance was in 1978's "Renaldo and Clara," a "self-important, poorly made," "pretentious and obnoxious" fictionalized account of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, according to critic Leonard Maltin.
SCREEN AGAIN
By RICHARD JOHNSON
with Paula Froelich and Chris Wilson
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BOB Dylan is returning to movies after a 15-year hiatus, and his co-star Mickey Rourke says the mush-mouthed minstrel is brilliant.
In "Masked and Anonymous," currently filming in L.A., Dylan, 61, plays Jack Fate, an aging rock star who is released from prison to play one last concert in an attempt to save the world. Rourke plays a post-apocalyptic president of the United States and Dylan's childhood friend.
"Dylan is doing an incredible [bleep]ing job," Rourke tells writer Steve Garbarino.
For the past two years Dylan has been developing the BBC-funded flick, based on a short story by Enrique Morales, with "Seinfeld" co-producer Larry Charles, who's also directing. Dylan has kept the $15 million project shrouded in secrecy, but it reportedly will feature 40 minutes of live concert footage.
That might or might not be a good thing. In a recent review of a Dylan concert, the London Observer termed his performance "enigmatic," "competent-going-on-weird" and "baroque at best, grotesque at worst."
Rounding out the cast - most of whom are working for scale out of admiration for Dylan - are Penelope Cruz, who plays a hooker and girlfriend of "journalist" Jeff Bridges; Jessica Lange, who plays a cynical concert promoter; and John Goodman, who plays Dylan's agent.
Christian Slater, Val Kilmer, Cheech Marin, Angela Bassett, Luke Wilson, Ed Harris, Giovanni Ribisi, Bruce Dern, Chris Penn and "Mulholland Drive" sexpot Laura Harring all have cameos. "It is very bold, not heavy and portentous, but very witty and wry," BBC Films head David Thompson told the London Daily Telegraph.
The movie, due out early next year and expected to premiere at Cannes or Sundance, is supposed to wrap in two weeks. Dylan, who won an Oscar for Best Original Song last year for "Things Have Changed" from "Wonder Boys," is no doubt hoping for a shot at another Academy Award.
If Rourke is right and Dylan's doing a good job, it will surprise the critics. His last starring role was also as an aging rocker in the 1987 straight-to-video flop "Hearts of Fire."
Before that, Dylan's last screen appearance was in 1978's "Renaldo and Clara," a "self-important, poorly made," "pretentious and obnoxious" fictionalized account of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, according to critic Leonard Maltin.
DVD-I Am Sam
Where to begin. Why not the way the film did, with Starbucks. Not since
castaway has a corporate presence been so strong in a film, the kind that begins
to reshape it's meaning. The first five minutes play like a Starbucks commercial,
the rest of the film had the highest product placement per shot ratio ever. Don't
play the product placement drinking game to this one, you might die of
alcohol poisoning. As for the rest of the film, Sean Penn's retarded inner life is set to an all-Beatles soundtrack
- Cinefilevideo.com
Where to begin. Why not the way the film did, with Starbucks. Not since
castaway has a corporate presence been so strong in a film, the kind that begins
to reshape it's meaning. The first five minutes play like a Starbucks commercial,
the rest of the film had the highest product placement per shot ratio ever. Don't
play the product placement drinking game to this one, you might die of
alcohol poisoning. As for the rest of the film, Sean Penn's retarded inner life is set to an all-Beatles soundtrack
- Cinefilevideo.com
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