NP: I'm Not There

kelber at mindspring.com kelber at mindspring.com
Sat Nov 24 13:21:04 CST 2007


Saw it more as a method for filming an eventual Pynchon bio-pic, not so much for one of his novels.  BTW, what did you think of the Dylan movie?

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 24, 2007 11:13 AM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: NP: I'm Not There
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>On 11/23/07, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>> Has anyone seen the film I'm Not There?  I saw it yesterday and thought it was fantastic.  The biographic method it uses is to present a portrait of Dylan based not on the events of his life, but on the changing mentality of his music.  I think this would be a great approach to use in a bio-pic of TRP....
>
>I saw it Thanksgiving night (figuring, having money, at least, only
>for one movie @ the time, No Country for Old Men wouldn't be leaving
>the theaters any time before my next paycheck), and though, it
>wouldn't be a bad approach to filming most any given Pynchon novel.
>I'm not so sure how successful it was at, well, wahtever it set out to
>do, but I was never much uninterested, which is all I can ask of most
>anything.  Meanwhile, has anyone here seen Palindromes?  As in ...
>
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362004/
>
>Do note that GR is conspicuously displayed in Solondz's Storytelling ...




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