I'm Not There

...a very difficult thing to achieve. The acting is superb, with Australian actress Abbie Cornish (CANDY) playing Fanny, and Ben Whishaw (I'M NOT THERE) as Keates, plus Kerry Fox, Paul Schneider and Thomas Sangster in solid supporting roles.

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...won the Academy Award for her performance in "The Aviator"; she was also Oscar-nominated for her work in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," "I'm Not There," "Notes on a Scandal" and "Elizabeth." The actress starred in Hedda Gabler at New...

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This contact is strictly forbidden, but Will is desperate for an intimate human moment. Moverman (best-known for his Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There) wisely knows how far he can push this idea, and it falls well short of a true romance.

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...tongues for months, thanks to prerelease screenings at film festivals from Sundance to Sedona. Co-written by director Oren Moverman ("I'm Not There," "Jesus' Son"), the story follows Army Staff Sgt. Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) in his final...

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...the supporting actress Oscar of 1992, it is unclear here as to just who finished second. While there was much talk of Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There" and even Ruby Dee in "American Gangster," I can't help but think that Ryan was Swinton's...

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Making his feature-directing debut, Moverman, co-writer of the inert "Married Life" (2007) and inscrutable Bob Dylan biography "I'm Not There" (2007), has made a borderline exploitative, annoying shaky-cam movie about probably the most...

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...much essential to playing Tennessee Williams, and why her husband got jealous of the young Bob Dylan when Blanchett played him in I'm Not There. (Also: Why the "tremulous fragility" that's so much a part of her Blanche is core to the...

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...animated flicks -- "Finding Nemo," "The Incredibles," "Ratatouille," "Wall-E"; best director snub of Todd Haynes ("Far From Heaven," "I'm Not There"); best actress snub of Uma Thurman ("Kill Bill," Vol. 1 & 2); and best picture snub of...

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...anybody love that movie?' Those are perfect movies for us." Thursday's event is the final Slapdown of the year, with a screening of "I'm Not There," director Todd Haynes' experimental, somewhat fictionalized Bob Dylan biopic from 2007 that...

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