Top 10 Biopics
Sean Penn stars as Harvey Milk—America's first major openly gay politican—in Gus Van Sant's new biopic Milk. TIME looks back at 80 years of "Based on the life of..." films.
If it wasn't obvious that director Todd Haynes studied semiotics at Brown University, it should have been after I'm Not There. A skewed take on the biopic genre, Haynes' film uses half a dozen actors to play Bob Dylan during various periods of his life. Christian Bale is the Jesus-fied Dylan, Richard Gere is the cowboy outlaw Dylan, and Cate Blanchett does incredible mimicry as Don't Look Back-era Dylan. It's a radical take on one of our most unknowable of American artists.
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