MASKED AND ANONYMOUS (2003) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Larry Charles
Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz,
John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Luke Wilson,
Angela Bassett, Bruce Dern, Ed Harris,
Val Kilmer, Christian Slater, Mickey Rourke,
Giovanni Ribisi, Susan Tyrell, Fred Ward
Scowlin' Bob Dylan plays Jack Fate, a legendary, washed-up singer-songwriter tapped to headline a big benefit concert. The other actors all appear to be improvising their scenes around Bob, who spends most of the movie standing around frowning. He knocks off a few songs, including a cover of "Dixie" that doesn't exactly conjure up visions of the Old South, but Dylanologists looking for clues to the man's ever-shifting mystique will find more questions than answers here. That's the idea, of course. Dylan cowrote the screenplay, using the pen name "Sergei Petrov".
