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{{Infobox film
| name = I'm Not There
| image = I'm Not There.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Todd Haynes]]
| producer = {{Plainlist|
* [[Christine Vachon]]
* [[James D. Stern]]
* [[John Sloss]]
* [[John Goldwyn]]
}}
| screenplay = {{Plainlist|
* Todd Haynes
* [[Oren Moverman]]
}}
| story = Todd Haynes
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[Christian Bale]]
* [[Cate Blanchett]]
* [[Marcus Carl Franklin]]
* [[Richard Gere]]
* [[Heath Ledger]]
* [[Ben Whishaw]]
* [[Charlotte Gainsbourg]]
* [[David Cross]]
* [[Bruce Greenwood]]
* [[Julianne Moore]]
* [[Michelle Williams (actress)|Michelle Williams]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Edward Lachman]]
| editing = [[Jay Rabinowitz (film editor)|Jay Rabinowitz]]
| studio = {{Plainlist|
* [[Endgame Entertainment]]
* [[Killer Films]]
* John Wells Productions
* John Goldwyn Productions
* VIP Medienfonds 4
* Rising Star
* Grey Water Park Productions
}}
| distributor = {{Plainlist|
* [[The Weinstein Company]] (United States)
* [[Tobis Film]] (Germany)
}}
| released = {{Film date|2007|09|03|[[64th Venice International Film Festival|Venice Film Festival]]|2007|11|21|United States|2008|02|28|Germany}}
| runtime = 135 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 135:42--><ref>{{cite web | url=http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/im-not-there-film | archive-url=https://archive.today/20160804214941/http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/im-not-there-film | url-status=dead | archive-date=August 4, 2016 | title=I'm Not There| publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]]| access-date=October 31, 2015}}</ref>
| country = {{Plainlist|
* Germany
* United States
}}
| language = English
| budget = $20&nbsp;million
| gross = $11.7&nbsp;million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=imnotthere.htm|title=I'm Not There|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=October 31, 2015}}</ref>
}}

'''''I'm Not There''''' is a 2007 [[Musical film|musical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed by [[Todd Haynes]], who co-wrote the screenplay with [[Oren Moverman]], based on a story by Haynes. An experimental [[biographical film|biographical]] film, it is inspired by the life and music of American singer-songwriter [[Bob Dylan]], with six actors depicting different facets of Dylan's public personas: [[Christian Bale]], [[Cate Blanchett]], [[Marcus Carl Franklin]], [[Richard Gere]], [[Heath Ledger]] (his final film to be released during his lifetime), and [[Ben Whishaw]]. 

A caption at the start of the film declares it to be "inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan"; this is the only mention of Dylan in the film apart from song credits, and his only appearance in it is concert footage from 1966. The film's title is taken from the 1967 Dylan ''[[List of Basement Tapes songs|Basement Tape]]'' recording of "I'm Not There", a song that had not been officially released until it appeared on the film's [[I'm Not There (soundtrack)|soundtrack album]]. 

''I'm Not There'' premiered at the [[64th Venice International Film Festival]] on September 3, 2007, and was released in the United States on November 21 and in Germany on February 28, 2008. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for its acting (particularly Blanchett's), directing, and musical score. It underperformed at the box office, grossing $11 million worldwide on the budget of $20 million. ''I'm Not There'' appeared on multiple publications' top ten films lists for 2007. Blanchett won the [[Volpi Cup for Best Actress]] and the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress]], and received a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]].

==Plot==
''I'm Not There'' uses a [[nonlinear narrative]], shifting between six characters in separate storylines "inspired by the music and many lives of [[Bob Dylan]]". Each character represents a different facet of Dylan's public persona: poet (Arthur Rimbaud), prophet (Jack Rollins/Father John), outlaw (Billy McCarty), fake (Woody Guthrie), "rock and roll martyr" (Jude Quinn), and "star of electricity" (Robbie Clark).

Production notes published by distributor [[The Weinstein Company]] explain that the film "dramatizes the life and music of Bob Dylan as a series of shifting personae, each performed by a different actor—poet, prophet, outlaw, fake, star of electricity, rock and roll martyr, born-again Christian—six identities braided together, six organs pumping through one life story."<ref name =Weinstein>{{harvnb|The Weinstein Company|2007}}</ref>

===Arthur Rimbaud===
19-year-old [[Arthur Rimbaud]] is questioned by interrogators. His cryptic responses are interspersed throughout the film, including remarks on [[fatalism]], the nature of poets, "seven simple rules for life in hiding," and chaos.

===Woody Guthrie===
In 1959, an 11-year-old African American boy calling himself Woody Guthrie is [[freighthopping]] through the [[Midwestern United States]]. Carrying a guitar in a case bearing the slogan "[[this machine kills fascists]]", he plays [[blues]] music and sings about topics such as trade unionism. Part of a conversation on a freight train between Woody and two [[hobo]]s about his life in a town called "Riddle" is directly lifted from another film, ''[[A Face in the Crowd (film)|A Face in the Crowd]]'' (1957). Taken in briefly by an African American family, the mother advises him to sing about the issues of his own time instead. In another boxcar, Woody wakes to find himself menaced by other hobos and after a fight falls off the train into a river. He nearly drowns, but is rescued by a white couple who take him in. They are impressed with his musical talents, but Woody runs off when they receive a telephone call from a juvenile corrections center in [[Minnesota]] telling them he is an escaped fugitive. Upon learning that the real [[Woody Guthrie]] is deathly ill, the boy travels to [[New Jersey]] to visit Guthrie in the hospital.

===Jack Rollins/Father John===
The career of [[folk music]]ian Jack Rollins is framed as a documentary film, told by interviewees including folk singer Alice Fabian. Jack becomes a star of the [[Greenwich Village]] folk scene in the early 1960s, praised by fans for his [[protest song]]s. He signs to [[Columbia Records]], but in 1963, just as the [[Vietnam War]] is escalating, he stops singing protest songs and turns away from folk music, believing that neither affects real social or political change. Following the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]], Jack gets drunk at a ceremony where he is receiving an award from a civil rights organization. Remarking in his acceptance speech that he saw something of himself in Kennedy's assassin [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], he is booed and derided by the audience. He goes into hiding and in 1974 enters a [[bible study (Christian)|bible study]] course in [[Stockton, California]]. He emerges a [[born again (Christianity)|born-again Christian]], denouncing his past and becoming an ordained minister performing [[gospel music]] under the name "Father John."

===Robbie Clark===
Robbie Clark is a 22-year-old actor who plays Jack Rollins in the 1965 biographical film ''Grain of Sand''. During filming in Greenwich Village in January 1964, he falls in love with French artist Claire, and they soon marry. ''Grain of Sand'' is a hit and Robbie becomes a star, but their relationship is strained and Claire observes Robbie flirting with other women. She is particularly offended when, during an argument in 1968 over whether the evils of the world can be changed, he opines that women can never be poets. Eventually Robbie moves out of their house, then goes to London for four months to film a [[thriller (genre)|thriller]] and has an affair with his female co-star. [[Richard Nixon]]'s January 1973 announcement of the [[Paris Peace Accords]] inspires Claire to ask for a divorce. She gains custody of their two daughters, but allows Robbie to take them on a boating trip.

===Jude Quinn===
Jude Quinn is a popular former folk singer whose performance with a full band and electric guitars at a [[Newport Folk Festival|New England jazz and folk festival]] outrages his fans, who accuse him of [[Electric Dylan controversy|selling out]]. Travelling to London, Jude fields ignorant questions from journalists, frolics with [[the Beatles]], encounters his former lover [[Edie Sedgwick|Coco Rivington]], and meets poet [[Allen Ginsberg]], who suggests that Jude "sold out to God." Interviewing Jude, journalist Keenan Jones notes that Jude's songs are being used as recruitment tools by the [[Black Panther Party]] and opines that Jude refuses to feel deeply about anything while simultaneously being very self-conscious. Jude is offended and walks out of the interview. At a concert performing "[[Ballad of a Thin Man]]," Jude is booed and called a "[[Judas Iscariot|Judas]]" by the audience. Keenan reveals on television that, despite his claims of a rough-and-tumble vagabond past, Jude is actually Aaron Jacob Edelstein, the suburban, middle-class, educated son of a [[Brookline, Massachusetts]] department store owner. Faced with a long string of upcoming European tour dates, Jude spirals into drug use and is apparently killed in a motorcycle accident.

===Billy McCarty===
The outlaw [[Billy the Kid]], believed to have been killed by [[Pat Garrett]], lives in hiding and solitude as "Billy McCarty" in a shack outside the rural town of Riddle, Missouri. Searching for his lost dog, he has a premonition of the [[Vietnam War]]. Learning that Commissioner Garrett plans to demolish the town to build a highway, which has caused several townspeople to commit suicide, Billy rides into the centre of town and confronts Garrett, who is attempting to mollify the townsfolk. Garrett recognizes Billy but can't place him as the outlaw he supposedly killed. When the townsfolk threaten to riot, Billy is arrested by police driving modern cars and is thrown in jail for being a troublemaker. He is broken out by his friend Homer and hops a passing train. He finds Woody's guitar in the boxcar and plays it as he rides away, musing on the nature of freedom and identity.

The film concludes with footage of Dylan playing a harmonica solo during a live performance in 1966.<ref name =Audio>Audio commentary by Todd Haynes, ''I'm Not There'' DVD, Two-Disc Collector's Edition, 2007, VIP Medienfonds 4 Gmbh & Co. Distributed by Genius Products, LLC.</ref>

==Cast==

===Main cast===
These six characters represent different aspects of Dylan's life and music.<ref name = "Variety-07">{{harvnb|McCarthy|2007}}</ref><ref name = "SullivanNYT"/> Some of these share names with real historical figures or artists, some are wholly fictional characters.
* [[Christian Bale]] as Jack Rollins / Pastor John
* [[Cate Blanchett]] as Jude Quinn
* [[Marcus Carl Franklin]] as [[Woody Guthrie]]
* [[Richard Gere]] as [[Billy the Kid]] 
* [[Heath Ledger]] as Robbie Clark, an actor who portrays Jack Rollins in a biographical film and becomes as famous as the person he portrays
* [[Ben Whishaw]] as [[Arthur Rimbaud]]

===Supporting cast===
* [[Charlotte Gainsbourg]] as Claire Clark, wife of Robbie Clark 
* [[David Cross]] as [[Allen Ginsberg]]
* Eugene Brotto as [[Peter Orlovsky]]
* [[Bruce Greenwood]] as Keenan Jones, a fictional reporter who investigates Jude Quinn, and [[Pat Garrett]], nemesis of [[Billy the Kid]].
* [[Julianne Moore]] as Alice Fabian, a singer 
* [[Michelle Williams (actress)|Michelle Williams]] as Coco Rivington
* [[Mark Camacho]] as Norman, the manager of Jude Quinn
* [[Benz Antoine]] as [[Bobby Seale]], the [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]] leader, and Rabbit Brown
* Craig Thomas as [[Huey Newton]], the Black Panther leader
* [[Richie Havens]] as Old Man Arvin
* Kim Roberts as Mrs. Arvin
* [[Kris Kristofferson]] as The Narrator
* [[Don Francks]] as Hobo Joe
* Vito DeFilippo and [[Susan Glover]] as Mr. and Mrs. Peacock, a middle-class couple who take "Woody Guthrie" in after a near-drowning incident
* [[Paul Spence]] as Homer, Billy the Kid's friend
[[File:Director and actors of I'm not there at the 64th Venice Film Festival-01.jpg|thumb|[[Richard Gere]], [[Todd Haynes]], [[Charlotte Gainsbourg]] and [[Heath Ledger]] at the [[64th Venice International Film Festival]], September 2007.]]

==Production==

===Development===
[[Todd Haynes]] and his producer, [[Christine Vachon]], approached Dylan's manager, Jeff Rosen, to obtain permission to use Dylan's music and to fictionalize elements of Dylan's life. Rosen suggested that Haynes should send a one-page synopsis of his film for submission to Dylan. Rosen advised Haynes not to use the word "genius" or "voice of a generation".<ref name = "SullivanNYT"/><ref>{{cite web|first=Dave|last=Calhoun|title=Todd Haynes on Bob Dylan|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/todd-haynes-on-bob-dylan-1|work=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]|access-date=December 11, 2015|archive-date=December 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222115145/http://www.timeout.com/london/film/todd-haynes-on-bob-dylan-1|url-status=dead}}</ref> The page Haynes submitted began with a quote from [[Arthur Rimbaud]]: "I is someone else", and then continued:

{{blockquote|If a film were to exist in which the breadth and flux of a creative life could be experienced, a film that could open up, as opposed to consolidating, what we think we already know walking in, it could never be within the tidy arc of a master narrative. The structure of such a film would have to be a fractured one, with numerous openings and a multitude of voices, with its prime strategy being one of refraction, not condensation. Imagine a film splintered between six separate faces – old men, young men, women, children – each standing in for spaces in a single life.<ref name = "SullivanNYT"/>}}

Dylan gave Haynes permission to proceed with his project. Haynes developed his screenplay with writer [[Oren Moverman]]. In the course of writing, Haynes has acknowledged that he became uncertain whether he could successfully carry off a film which deliberately confused biography with fantasy in such an extreme way. According to the account of the film that Robert Sullivan published in the ''[[New York Times]]'': "Haynes called Jeff Rosen, Dylan's right hand, who was watching the deal-making but staying out of the scriptwriting. Rosen, he said, told him not to worry, that it was just his own crazy version of what Dylan is."<ref name = "SullivanNYT"/>

In a comment on why six actors were employed to portray different facets of Dylan's personality, Haynes wrote:

{{blockquote|The minute you try to grab hold of Dylan, he's no longer where he was. He's like a flame: If you try to hold him in your hand you'll surely get burned. Dylan's life of change and constant disappearances and constant transformations makes you yearn to hold him, and to nail him down. And that's why his fan base is so obsessive, so desirous of finding the truth and the absolutes and the answers to him – things that Dylan will never provide and will only frustrate. ... Dylan is difficult and mysterious and evasive and frustrating, and it only makes you identify with him all the more as he skirts identity.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2007/10/how_does_it_feel_footnote_feti.html| title = Haynes in Weinstein Company press notes for "I'm Not There", quoted in ''Footnote fetishism & "I'm Not There"'' by Jim Emerson| publisher = Jim Emerson's scanners::blog| date = October 10, 2007| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080720043705/http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2007/10/how_does_it_feel_footnote_feti.html| archive-date = July 20, 2008| df = mdy-all}}</ref>}}

A further Dylan-based character named Charlie, based on [[Charlie Chaplin]], was dropped before filming began. Haynes described him as "a little tramp, coming to Greenwich Village and performing feats of magic and being an arbiter of peace between the [[Beat Generation|beats]] and the [[American folk music revival|folkies]]."<ref>{{harvnb|Male|2007}}</ref> Actors including [[Adrien Brody]] and [[Colin Farrell]] were attached to play characters representing Dylan early in development; [[Heath Ledger]] replaced the latter, who dropped out for undisclosed reasons, as Robbie Clark.<ref name="sony">{{cite web|title=Sony Classics grabs Palme winner, targets Dylan biopic|website=[[Screen Daily]]|first=Nancy|last=Tartaglione|date=31 May 2005|access-date=4 March 2025|url=https://www.screendaily.com/sony-classics-grabs-palme-winner-targets-dylan-biopic/4023321.article}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=In brief: Farrell replaced on Dylan project|website=[[The Guardian]]|date=5 May 2006|access-date=4 March 2025|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/may/05/news2}}</ref>

===''Grain of Sand''===

The film within a film, ''Grain of Sand'', is not only important for the plot of ''I'm Not There'' but also for the film's connection to Bob Dylan's life. Larry Gross suggests that ''Grain of Sand'' actor Robbie may be the film's most accurate portrayal of Dylan despite being "a fictional actor playing a fictional alternative version of a real person" because of his tumultuous relationship with Claire.<ref name="The Lives of Others: I'm Not There">{{cite web|last1=Gross|first1=Larry|title=The Lives of Others: I'm Not There|url=http://www.filmcomment.com/article/the-lives-of-others-im-not-there/|website=Film Comment|access-date=March 30, 2016}}</ref> Gross also notes parallels between Robbie and Claire's ultimately failed marriage and Dylan's relationship with [[Suze Rotolo]], claiming that Claire's character seems to be a portrayal of Rotolo, especially considering the shot in ''I'm Not There'' that mimicks the photo of Rotolo and Dylan on the cover of ''[[The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan]]''.<ref name="The Lives of Others: I'm Not There"/>

===Filming===
[[Principal photography]] took place in [[Montreal]], Quebec, Canada.<ref name = "SullivanNYT"/> Music festival scenes were filmed in [[Chambly, Quebec]] in the summer of 2006.<ref>{{harvnb|Hardy|2006}}</ref>

===Music===
{{main|I'm Not There (soundtrack)}}
The film features numerous songs by Dylan, performed by Dylan and also recordings by other artists. The songs feature as both foreground—performed by artists on camera (e.g. "Goin' to Acapulco", "Pressing On")—and background accompaniment to the action. A notable non-Dylan song in the movie is "[[(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone]]" by [[The Monkees]], which plays in the background of a party scene set in London.

==Release==
In May 2005, [[Sony Pictures Classics]] was reportedly in negotiations to acquire North and Latin American and Spanish distribution rights to the film.<ref name="sony" /> January 2007, [[The Weinstein Company]] acquired North American and U.K. distribution rights to the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movieweb.com/the-weinstein-company-acquires-bob-dylan-biopic-im-not-there/|title=The Weinstein Company Acquires Bob Dylan Biopic 'I'm Not There'|website=Movieweb.com|date=January 3, 2007|access-date=April 13, 2016}}</ref> ''I'm Not There'' had its world premiere at the [[Telluride Film Festival]] on August 31, 2007.{{sfn|McCarthy|2007}} The film went onto screen at the [[Toronto International Film Festival]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://canada.aol.com/torontofilmfestival/celebrity/article.adp?article=tiff_bobdylanclones|title=Looking Back|website=[[AOL.com]]|first=David|last=Germain|access-date=April 13, 2016|archive-date=August 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150819093040/http://canada.aol.com/torontofilmfestival/celebrity/article.adp?article=tiff_bobdylanclones|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[London Film Festival]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.notcoming.com/features/lff_07/|title=The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival|website=NotComing.com|first=Tom|last=Huddelston|date=October 7, 2007|access-date=April 12, 2016}}</ref> and the [[New York Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/movies/new-york-film-festival-five-questions-for-todd-haynes.html|title=Five Questions for Todd Haynes|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|first=Mekado|last=Murphy|date=October 9, 2015|access-date=April 13, 2016}}</ref> The film opened in [[limited release]] in the United States on November 21, 2007.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2007/11/21/im-not-there|title=I'm Not There|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|first=Owen|last=Gleiberman|date=November 21, 2007|access-date=April 12, 2016}}</ref> It was then released in Germany on February 28, 2008, by [[Tobis Film]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tobis.de/film/im-not-there|title=I'm Not There|website=[[Tobis Film]]|access-date=April 13, 2016}}</ref>

===Home media===
''I'm Not There'' was released on DVD as a 2-disc special edition on May 6, 2008.<ref name=Gibron>{{harvnb|Gibron|2008}}</ref> The DVD special features include [[audio commentary]] from Haynes, deleted scenes, featurettes, a music video, audition tapes for certain cast members, trailers, and a Bob Dylan filmography and discography.<ref name=Gibron/>

==Reception==

===Critical response===
''I'm Not There'' received generally positive reviews from critics. On [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has a 76% approval rating based on 161 reviews, with an average rating of 7.06 out of 10. The site's critical consensus states: "''I'm Not There''{{'}}s unique editing, visuals, and multiple talented actors portraying Bob Dylan make for a deliciously unconventional experience. Each segment brings a new and fresh take on Dylan's life."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/im_not_there_suppositions_on_a_film_concerning_dylan/ |title=I'm Not There Movie Reviews, Pictures – Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=March 28, 2025 |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|date=November 21, 2007 }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a [[weighted average]] score of 73 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/im-not-there |title=I'm Not There: Reviews |access-date=October 31, 2015 |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref>

Writing in ''[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]'', [[Anthony DeCurtis]] wrote that casting six different actors, including a woman and an African-American child, to play Dylan was "a preposterous idea, the sort of self-consciously 'audacious'—or reassuringly [[multiculturalism|multi-culti]]—gambit that, for instance, doomed [[Lennon (musical)|the Broadway musical]] based on the life and music of [[John Lennon]]. Yet in ''I'm Not There,'' the strategy works brilliantly." He especially praised Blanchett:

{{blockquote|Her performance is a wonder, and not simply because, as Jude Quinn, she inhabits the twitchy, [[amphetamine]]-fired Dylan of 1965–66 with unnerving accuracy. Casting a woman in this role reveals a dimension to the acerbic Dylan of this era that has rarely been noted ... Blanchett's translucent skin, delicate fingers, slight build, and pleading eyes all suggest the previously invisible vulnerability and fear that fueled Dylan's lacerating anger. It's hard to imagine that any male actor, or any less-gifted female actor for that matter, could have lent such rich texture to the role.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Anthony|last=DeCurtis|title=6 Characters in Search of an Artist|journal=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=November 23, 2007|page=15}}</ref>}}

Several other critics also praised Blanchett's performance as the mid-1960s Dylan. ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine described Blanchett as "so convincing and intense that you shrink back in your seat when she fixes you with her gaze."<ref>{{harvnb|Gates|2007}}</ref> The ''[[Charlotte Observer]]'' called Blanchett "miraculously close to the 1966 Dylan."<ref>{{cite web|last=Lawrence|first=Toppman|url=http://ae.charlotte.com/entertainment/ui/charlotte/movie.html?id=987014|title=Everybody's 'There' except Bob D.|work=The Charlotte Observer|date=November 23, 2007}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

[[Todd McCarthy]] of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', concluded that the film was well-made, but was ultimately a speciality event for Dylan fans, with little mainstream appeal. He wrote: "Dylan freaks and scholars will have the most fun with ''I'm Not There'', and there will inevitably be innumerable dissertations on the ways Haynes has both reflected and distorted reality, mined and manipulated the biographical record and otherwise had a field day with the essentials, as well as the esoterica, of Dylan's life. All of this will serve to inflate the film's significance by ignoring its lack of more general accessibility. In the end, it's a specialists' event."<ref name = "Variety-07"/> For [[Roger Ebert]], the film was enjoyable cinematically, yet never sought to resolve the enigmas of Dylan's life and work: "Coming away from ''I'm Not There'', we have, first of all, heard some great music ... We've seen six gifted actors challenged by playing facets of a complete man. We've seen a daring attempt at biography as collage. We've remained baffled by the Richard Gere cowboy sequence, which doesn't seem to know its purpose. And we have been left not one step closer to comprehending Bob Dylan, which is as it should be."<ref name = "Ebert"/>

===Dylan's response===
In September 2012, Dylan commented on ''I'm Not There'' in an interview published in ''[[Rolling Stone]]''. When journalist [[Mikal Gilmore]] asked Dylan whether he liked the film, he responded: "Yeah, I thought it was all right. Do you think that the director was worried that people would understand it or not? I don't think he cared one bit. I just think he wanted to make a good movie. I thought it looked good, and those actors were incredible."<ref>{{harvnb|Gilmore|2012}}</ref>

===Top ten lists===
The film appeared on several critics' lists of the top ten films of 2007.

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* 1st – J. Hoberman, ''[[The Village Voice]]''<ref name=meta>{{harvnb|Metacritic: 2007 Film Critic Top Ten Lists}}</ref>
* 1st – Owen Gleiberman, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 1st – Stephanie Zacharek, ''[[Salon.com|Salon]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 1st – Ty Burr, ''[[The Boston Globe]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 3rd – Lisa Schwarzbaum, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 3rd – Marc Mohan, ''[[The Oregonian]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 4th – [[A. O. Scott]], ''[[The New York Times]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 4th – Nathan Lee, ''[[The Village Voice]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 4th – Shawn Levy, ''[[The Oregonian]]''<ref name=meta/>
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* 5th – Steven Rea, ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 6th – Kevin Crust, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 7th – Marjorie Baumgarten, ''[[The Austin Chronicle]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 9th – Glenn Kenny, ''[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 9th – Peter Travers, ''[[Rolling Stone]]''<ref>{{harvnb|Travers|2007}}</ref>
* 10th – Ann Hornaday, ''[[The Washington Post]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 10th – Desson Thomson, ''[[The Washington Post]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 10th – Keith Phipps, ''[[The A.V. Club]]''<ref name=meta/>
* 10th – Tasha Robinson, ''[[The A.V. Club]]''<ref name=meta/>
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===Accolades===
* [[80th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]:
** Best Supporting Actress ([[Cate Blanchett]], nominee)<ref>{{harvnb|Oscar Legacy: The 80th Academy Awards (2008) Nominees and Winners}}</ref>
* [[61st British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
** Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Cate Blanchett, nominee)
* [[13th Critics' Choice Awards|Broadcast Film Critics]]:
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, nominee)
* Central Ohio Film Critics:
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, '''winner''')
* [[Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2007|Chicago Film Critics]]:
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, '''winner''')
* [[65th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]:
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, '''winner''')
* [[Independent Spirit Awards 2007|Independent Spirit Awards]]
** Best Film (nominee)
** Best Director (Todd Haynes, nominee)
** Best Supporting Actor (Marcus Carl Franklin, nominee)
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, '''winner''')
** [[Independent Spirit Awards 2007#Robert Altman Award|Robert Altman Award]] ([[Todd Haynes]], Laura Rosenthal, [[Christian Bale]], [[Cate Blanchett]], [[Marcus Carl Franklin]], [[Charlotte Gainsbourg]], [[Richard Gere]], [[Bruce Greenwood]], [[Heath Ledger]] and [[Ben Whishaw]], '''winner''')
* Las Vegas Film Critics:
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, '''winner''')
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2007|Los Angeles Film Critics]]:
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, runner-up)
* [[2007 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle]]:
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, runner-up)
* [[New York Film Critics Online]]:
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, '''winner''')
* [[National Society of Film Critics Awards 2007|National Society of Film Critics]]:
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, '''winner''')
* Nilsson Awards for Film
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, '''winner''')
** Best Cinematography
** Best Compiled Soundtrack
* [[Satellite Awards]]:
** Best Actress – Comedy or Musical (Cate Blanchett, nominee)
* [[Screen Actors Guild Awards 2007|Screen Actors Guild (SAG)]]:
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, nominee)
* Southeastern Film Critics:
** Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett, runner-up)
* [[64th Venice International Film Festival|Venice Film Festival]]:
** Golden Lion (Todd Haynes, nominee)
** Special Jury Prize (Todd Haynes, '''winner''')<ref name="ReferenceA">{{harvnb|Blanchett wins top Venice award}}</ref>
** Volpi Cup Best Actress (Cate Blanchett, '''winner''')<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref>{{harvnb|Coppa Volpi for best actors since 1935}}</ref>

==Correlations to Dylan's life==
The character of Jack Rollins depicts Dylan during his acoustic, "protest" phase which includes ''[[The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan]]'' and ''[[The Times They Are a-Changin' (Bob Dylan album)|The Times They Are a-Changin']]''. Rollins's speech mentioning [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] quotes from a speech Dylan made when receiving the Tom Paine Award from the [[National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee]] in December 1963.<ref>Part of Dylan's speech: "There's no black and white, left and right to me any more; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking of anything trivial such as politics." ({{harvnb|Shelton|1986|pp=200–205}})</ref> Pastor John embodies Dylan's "born-again" period when he recorded ''[[Slow Train Coming]]'' and ''[[Saved (Bob Dylan album)|Saved]]''.

Jude Quinn "closely follows Dylan's mid-sixties adventures" and his "dangerous game propels him into existential breakdown."<ref name="Weinstein"/> Quinn is an embodiment of Dylan in 1965–66, when he [[Electric Dylan controversy|controversially played electric guitar]] at the [[Newport Folk Festival]], toured the UK with a band and was booed.<ref name="shelton">{{harvnb|Shelton|1986|pp=301–304}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Lee|2000|pp=40–60}}</ref> Quinn is seen at a folk festival performing a rock version of "[[Maggie's Farm]]" to outraged folk music fans; Dylan performed this song at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, which provoked booing and controversy.<ref>{{harvnb|Unterberger|2007}}</ref> Some of the questions Quinn is asked at a London press conference are quotes from Dylan's KQED press conference in San Francisco in December 1965.<ref>{{harvnb|Heylin|1996|p=87}}</ref><ref>Dylan's 1965 press conference reproduced in: {{harvnb|Hedin|2004|pp=51–58}}</ref> The sped-up film speed in the scene of Quinn gambolling with The Beatles echoes the style of [[Richard Lester]]'s depiction in ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]''.<ref name = "hoberman">{{harvnb|Hoberman|2007}}</ref> Quinn's reply, "How can I answer that if you've got the nerve to ask me?", to Bruce Greenwood's character comes from a similar response Dylan made to a reporter from [[Time magazine|''Time'' magazine]] in ''[[Dont Look Back]]'', Pennebaker's documentary about Dylan's 1965 English tour.<ref>{{harvnb|Pennebaker|2006|p=128}}</ref> The scene in which Jude is called "Judas" by an audience member is based on a May 17, 1966, concert in Manchester, captured on Dylan's album ''[[The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert|Live 1966]]''. The Jude Quinn character's death reflects a serious motorcycle accident Dylan had in 1966.<ref>{{harvnb|Heylin|2003|pp=266–267}}</ref>

The Woody character refers to Dylan's youthful obsession with folk singer [[Woody Guthrie]].<ref>{{harvnb|Dylan|2004|pp=243–246}}</ref> The slogan "[[This machine kills fascists]]" on Woody's guitar case mimics a label Guthrie famously had on his guitar.<ref>{{harvnb|Gray|2006|pp=287–289}}</ref>

Billy the Kid refers to Dylan playing the role of Alias in [[Sam Peckinpah]]'s 1973 western ''[[Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid]]''.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070518/fullcredits| title = Full Cast and Crew, ''Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid''| date = April 10, 1987| access-date = September 20, 2016| publisher = IMDb.com}}</ref><ref>C. P. Lee wrote: "In Garrett's ghost-written memoir, ''[[The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid]]'', published within a year of Billy's death, he wrote that 'Billy's partner doubtless had a name which was his legal property, but he was so given to changing it that it is impossible to fix on the right one. Billy always called him Alias.{{' "}} ({{harvnb|Lee|2000|pp=66–67}})</ref> Billy's final monologue in the film echoes remarks Dylan made in a 1997 interview with [[David Gates (author)|David Gates]] of ''[[Newsweek]]'': "I don't think I'm tangible to myself. I mean, I think one thing today and I think another thing tomorrow. I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time. It doesn't even matter to me."<ref>{{harvnb|Gates|1997}})</ref>

The character Robbie Clark is an actor who portrays Jack Rollins in a biographical film and becomes as famous as the person he portrays; he experiences the stresses of a disintegrating marriage, reflecting Dylan's personal life around the time of 1975's ''[[Blood on the Tracks]]''. The scene in which Robbie and Claire run romantically through the streets of New York re-enacts the cover of the 1963 album ''[[The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan]]'' which depicts Dylan arm in arm with his then-girlfriend [[Suze Rotolo]] in [[Greenwich Village]].<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/bob-dylan-freewheelin-romance-greenwich-village-article-1.2764268| title = ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' cover immortalizes a budding Greenwich Village love story| author = Mitchell, Elizabeth| date = August 27, 2016| access-date = August 28, 2016| newspaper = New York Daily News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = http://gothamist.com/2006/04/18/nyc_album_art_t.php| title = NYC Album Art: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan| publisher = Gothamist| date = April 18, 2006| access-date = March 1, 2009| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100328132009/http://gothamist.com/2006/04/18/nyc_album_art_t.php| archive-date = March 28, 2010| df = mdy-all}}</ref> Dylan was divorced from his first wife, [[Sara Dylan]], in June 1977 and the divorce involved court battles over the custody of their children.<ref>{{harvnb|Gray|2006|pp=198–200}}</ref> In his production notes, Haynes wrote that Robbie and Claire's relationship is "doomed to a long stubborn protraction (not unlike [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]], which it parallels)."<ref name = "SullivanNYT"/> Claire Clark, the wife of Robbie Clark, is a representation of [[Sara Dylan]] and [[Suze Rotolo]].<ref name = "SullivanNYT"/><ref name = "hoberman"/>

Arthur Rimbaud is depicted as a man being questioned and responding with quotes from Dylan's interviews and writings. Dylan wrote in his autobiography ''[[Chronicles: Volume One|Chronicles]]'' that he was influenced by Rimbaud's outlook.<ref>{{harvnb|Dylan|2004|p=146}}</ref>

Keenan Jones, the name of the fictional reporter who investigates Jude Quinn and Pat Garrett, echoes Dylan's song "[[Ballad of a Thin Man]]" with its chorus: "Something is happening here/ And you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?" The character's revelation of Jude's past is based on a hostile profile of Dylan published in the October 1963 issue of ''[[Newsweek]]'', revealing that he was originally named Robert Zimmerman and implying that he had lied about his middle-class origins.<ref>{{harvnb|Heylin|2003|pp=129–130}}</ref>

The character Alice Fabian is a singer who resembles folk singer [[Joan Baez]].<ref name = "SullivanNYT">{{harvnb|Sullivan|2007}}</ref><ref name = "Ebert">{{harvnb|Ebert|2007}}</ref>

The description of Coco Rivington as "Andy's new bird" suggests this character is modelled on [[Edie Sedgwick]], a socialite and actress within [[Andy Warhol]]'s circle.<ref name =Audio/><ref name = "hoberman"/>

Norman, the manager of Jude Quinn, is based on [[Albert Grossman]], Dylan's manager until 1970.<ref name =Audio/>

[[Huey Newton]] depicts the real-life Black Panther leader. He and [[Bobby Seale]], another Black Panther leader, listened "obsessively" to Dylan's song "Ballad of a Thin Man" while putting together the first issue of the ''Black Panther'' newspaper in 1967.<ref>"One of those photos that gets called iconic shows a bare-torsoed Newton clutching his copy of ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]''." [[Ian Bell (journalist)|Bell, Ian]], ''Once Upon A Time: The Lives of Bob Dylan''. 2012, p. 517.</ref>

==See also==
* ''[[A Complete Unknown]]'', a 2024 Dylan biopic directed by [[James Mangold]]
* [[List of characters played by multiple actors in the same film]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
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* {{cite web|first=Bill|last=Gibron|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/33148/im-not-there-two-disc-collectors-edition/|title=I'm Not There: Two-Disc Collector's Edition|publisher=DVD talk|date=May 7, 2008|access-date=March 26, 2014}}
* {{cite magazine|first=Mikal|last=Gilmore|author-link=Mikal Gilmore|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-dylan-unleashed-189723/|title=Bob Dylan Unleashed: A Wild Ride on His New LP and Striking Back at Critics|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=September 27, 2012|access-date=March 27, 2014}}
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* {{cite news|first=Robert|last=Sullivan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/magazine/07Haynes.html| title=This Is Not a Bob Dylan Movie|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 7, 2007|access-date=March 29, 2014}}
* {{cite web|first=Richie|last=Unterberger|url=http://www.richieunterberger.com/boydfolk.html|title=Interview with Joe Boyd|work=Richieunterberger.com|date=February 26, 2007|access-date=April 10, 2014}}
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==Further reading==
* {{cite news|first=A. O.|last=Scott|author-link=A. O. Scott|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/movies/21ther.html|title=Another Side of Bob Dylan, and Another, and Another ...|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 21, 2007|access-date=March 29, 2014|ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Wilkins |first1=Kim |title="I don't know who I am most of the time": Constructed Identity in Todd Haynes' I'm Not There |journal=Film Criticism |date=February 2017 |volume=41 |issue=1 |doi=10.3998/fc.13761232.0041.103 |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fc/13761232.0041.103?view=text;rgn=main|doi-access=free|ref=none|hdl=10852/76345 |hdl-access=free }}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote}}
* {{IMDb title|0368794}}
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/magazine/07Haynes.html "This Is Not a Bob Dylan Movie"] (''[[The New York Times]]'')

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