33. I'M NOT THERE
 
United States
dir. Todd Haynes
world premiere 2007
U.S. release 2007
 

 
Because the simple way to go, as though such a thing would ever interest Haynes, would be to offer Bob Dylan as someone whose uniqueness lifted him above his hidebound country and his narrow times. Haynes finds Dylan complicated because he both embodied and dissented from a polychromatic country and a rotating cycle of weighty, complicated times, rendered gorgeously via a kaleidoscope of filmic idioms.