And can I just say, the day after I posted that I got a bunch of hits from 20th Century Fox-networked computers. Jason Reitman soo googles himself after his television appearances, hee!

That Nikil link is interesting, to read an extreme negative reaction to a film that I absolutely loved, and would call one of the year’s best. I think the review spends way too much verbiage on simply pointing out the multitude of references to Fellini, Godard, and Pennebaker in the film, as though Haynes ever intended to slip these glaringly obvious “plagiaries” past us. I also think that criticizing the film for not saying anything new about Dylan is kinda missing the point. Haynes doesn’t want to tell Dylan’s life story or say anything about Dylan himself. He’s only using Dylan’s persona and music to get at deeper issues that concern him — like the many different ways an artist can be political and engage with his society — and the film succeeds quite well on those terms, rather than as a Dylan biopic. I recently saw somebody compare this film to the way David Cronenberg simply uses William Burroughs’ life story and art as raw material in Naked Lunch, rather than making a straightforward literary adaptation or a biopic. Haynes is up to something similar in regard to Dylan, though I think his film is much more successful at it than Cronenberg’s flawed but intriguing Burroughs movie.