Playing with SOMETHING I’VE GOT TO TELL YOU 12 mins.
Bob Dylan once said ‘I don’t think I’m gonna be really understood until maybe 100 years from now’. Author of the DYLAN TO ENGLISH DICTIONARY, a Dylanologist and originator of Garbology (the practice of rooting through rubbish in order to gain insight into prominent people’s lives), AJ Weberman has made it his life’s work to understand Bob Dylan now.
At times hilarious, at other times disturbing and sad, this film is not only a great companion piece to NO DIRECTION HOME, but an interesting observation on our unbalanced desires to know more about celebrities and how far we are willing to go to get that information or even become a part of their lives.
Weberman does not see himself as a stalker and insists that Dylan should be grateful that he is around: ‘I would have been to Dylan what Verlaine was to Rimbaud. There’s a natural tension between the poet and his critic’. It’s hard to see this as a tale of poet and critic, but rather a look at the bizarre relationship between the obsessed and the object of his obsession and how it can completely take over a man’s life.
This is a well-crafted piece of work, which uses a recorded telephone conversation between Weberman and Dylan, a great soundtrack and an array of colourful characters from Weberman’s life to keeping us captivated until the end. JvF
ALL ACCESS RAINDANCE FESTIVAL PASS
All screenings take place at the CineWorld, Trocadero Centre, Piccadilly, London W1
except Opening and Closing Night - CineWorld Haymarket
Access all areas:
- ticket to the Opening Night Gala screening of BROTHERS OF THE HEAD + the After Show Party (live music, and free booze)
- 80 of the best independent feature films
*150 short films (including animation, documentary and experimental strands)
- Q & A with film producers and
directors
- networking opportunities
- meet the people who decide what movies get made: Live Ammunition! (the super pitch event)
- exclusive tickets to Stanley Kubrick screenings and events
- four monster parties (Opening - Sept 27th, Sept 29th, October 3rd and Closing Night)
- ten industry panel seminars
- a FREE commemorative Raindance Festival Tee Shirt (while supplies last)
