“Blood on the Tracks”: The Movie

Just heard that a couple of (I guess) savvy Brazilian producers have purchased the movie rights to Bob Dylan’s landmark 1975 album Blood on the Tracks. Now I know the album, which ranks alongside Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde as the best of Dylan’s brilliant career, is almost confessional in nature, with Dylan accepting the traumatic breakdown of his marriage. Be that as it may, two songs in particular, Tangled Up in Blue and Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, could be made into movies of their own , neither of which would bear any similarity to the other.

Probably nothing will ever come of this project — I, for one, hope it doesn’t. I mean, there are certain things, even in our pop culture, that are just plain sacred.