NP but Dylan (Maybe old news to most, new to me)

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 09:39:57 CST 2014


I saw a very short---maybe 15 minutes ---full print before digital
film of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" once which I liked a
lot...window drapes blowing, sun, shadow, Bed, unmade bed, packing,
that song......

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great album. Hope the film doesn't have a ropey lead getting metaephorically
> tangled up in one "Loretta Blue" or somebody knocking on a door during a
> thunderstorm. That would truly suck.
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-dylan-blood-tracks-movie-308676
>>
>> Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' Album to Be Made Into a Movie
>>
>> LONDON -- Brazil-based international production banner RT Features has
>> strummed up the rights to adapt Bob Dylan's seminal 1975 album Blood on the
>> Tracks into a movie.
>>
>> RT Features' Rodrigo Teixeira and Fernando Loureiro will produce the
>> English-language film.
>>
>> The producing duo are putting the project out to directors aiming to find
>> one "with the unique vision to fulfill onscreen what Dylan accomplished in
>> the studio with such well-known songs 'Tangled Up in Blue,' 'Simple Twist of
>> Fate' and 'Shelter From the Storm.' "
>>
>> "As longtime admirers of one of the greatest albums in the history of
>> music, we feel privileged to be making this film," said Teixeira. "Our goal
>> is to work with a filmmaker who can create a classic drama with characters
>> and an environment that capture the feelings that the album inspires in all
>> fans."
>>
>> Blood on the Tracks, Dylan's 15th studio album, was released by Columbia
>> Records in January 1975. Certified double platinum in the U.S. and gold in
>> the U.K., the LP topped the Billboard 200 chart for two weeks, and Rolling
>> Stone listed the album in its top 20 of all time.
>>
>> As part of a push into developing and producing English-language films, RT
>> Features also is setting up Strip, mounting it with Thunder Road Pictures,
>> and The Games of 1940, a co-production with Kennedy/Marshall to be written
>> by David Seidler and Luca Manzi.
>>
>> RT Features has produced Portuguese-language movies including Romeo and
>> Juliet Get Married for Vanguard Cinema as well as 2007's Drained, which was
>> selected for official competition at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2011,
>> RT's Heleno and The Silver Cliff  secured slots during at the Toronto
>> International Film Festival and O Abismo Prateado found its way onto the
>> Directors' Fortnight roster at Cannes.
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