ByTowne ByTowne Cinema
ByTowne Cinema
325 Rideau St. Ottawa K1N 5Y4
Info Line: (613) 789-FILM
I'm Not There
Print this pageMust-See Cinema! Bob, we missed your 70th birthday back in May!! Please forgive us and accept this humble tribute!
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From Andy Warhol to Lonelygirl15, modern media culture thrives on the traffic in counterfeit selves. In this world the greatest artist will also be, therefore, the biggest fraud. Looking back over the past 50 years or so, it is hard to find anyone with a greater ability to synthesize authenticity – to give his serial hoaxes and impersonations the ring of truth – than Bob Dylan.
Among its many achievements, Todd Haynes’s film I’m Not There hurls a Molotov cocktail through the facade of the Hollywood biopic factory. Rather than turn out yet another dutiful, linear chronicle of childhood trauma and grown-up substance abuse, Mr. Haynes has produced a dizzying palimpsest of images and styles, in which his subject appears in the form of six different people. Not one is named Bob Dylan, though all of them evoke actual and invented points in the Dylan cosmos.
Though there’s a lot of Bob Dylan’s music in I’m Not There, Mr. Haynes is not simply compiling golden oldies. You hear familiar songs, but what you see is the imagination unleashed – the chimes of freedom flashing.
– A.O. Scott, The New York Times
The ByTowne doesn't have a parking lot of its own, but denizens of downtown can usually find street parking close by fairly easily.
This web site is very useful, but the hard copy of the ByTowne guide still has its merits. People rely on it and love it. Plus, its calendar pages can be pulled out and posted on your fridge door, something that we still can't achieve with the web site. Get your copy today at many local stores, coffee shops and info centres around town! 