Masked and Anonymous
This Dylan movie is coming out later this week. Elvis asked me to tell you about it. (Not really, he hardly mentioned it, I'm just jusifying this post for this site :-)
Before you read or hear from those who may choose to 'criticize what they don't understand' check out these reviews:
From Salon: "this summer's strange and brilliant must-see film, an aging troubadour is the last gleam of hope in a corrupt and dictatorial nation"
From Andew Motion, Poet Laureate: "At all these depths, and in all these respects, the film is deeply engaging. It is also revelatory - in the paradoxical sense that it allows Dylan to say some important things out loud, and to keep the silences, and retain the elements of mystery, which are essential to his genius. We should ask for nothing else."
From a highly-articulate Dylan fan, Peter Stone Brown: "Masked and Anonymous" is a wild ride of a movie and to appreciate it it's probably a good idea to try and put any preconceived notions about what a film is or should be aside.... This is no typical or standard movie. The storyline and the plot are incidental to the movie. They are pretty much a backdrop or a frame.... Consider it another chapter in the Bob Dylan canon. Perhaps the things he's wanted to say he couldn't put in a song, though at times the movie is constructed like a song.... And for those who wonder what Bob Dylan really thinks about this world we exist in, well you just might find it here."
More later...
(PS: The soundtrack with new live Dylan and unusual covers of Dylan songs is now available at Amazon)