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The new Todd Haynes film, "I'm Not There," is not a documentary about Bob Dylan. His name is in the opening credits of the movie ("inspired by the music & many lives of Bob Dylan"), and his face looms in closeup at the end, cheeks sucking and swelling to the rhythm of a harmonica, but those are his only appearances. Nor is the film a straightforward dramatization of his existence, or even a slice of it; anyone expecting a Dylanite echo of "Backbeat," which retold the story of the Beatles' time in Hamburg, may have reason to be aggrieved. Ian Hart played John Lennon in that film, with recognizable punch and wit, but nobody here plays the actual Dylan. Instead, six actors ...

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