"I'm Not There" at the Venice Film Fest: Video Interview With Todd Haynes and Heath Ledger

An astonishing number of days have passed since we last posted anything about Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan-inspired film I'm Not There, but fear not, today we came across this video about the movie. I'm Not There was awarded the Special Jury Prize (alongside La Graine et le Mulet, a French film by Abdellatif Kechiche) at this year's Venice Film Festival earlier this month, and this report, which features interviews with director Haynes and one of the film's six Dylans (Heath Ledger), provides welcome insight into Haynes' vision. Check it out, then enjoy a tour through our past coverage of the film including our I'm Not There photo gallery, on-set report, and sneak-peak preview of the film.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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