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THE BALLAD OF AJ WEBERMAN
UK, 2006, 82 MIN
DIRECTED BY JAMES BLUEMEL AND OLIVER RALFE
East Coast Premiere / 2nd US Showing

Passionate critic or stalker? You decide. AJ Weberman has made it his life's work to understand Bob Dylan a little too well. Author of the "Dylan To English Dictionary" he invented the science of "Garbology" to explain his digging into the trash cans outside Dylan's New York apartment in search of Dylanesque insights. Hilarious and disturbing, this doc portrays Weberman as a classic New York City intellectual, as brilliant as he is bizarre, complete with a failed marriage and sideshow buddies like NY street poet David Peel. It's easy to write off Weberman as a crackpot, but filmmakers Bluemel and Ralfe remind us that Dylan enjoyed some weird energy from Weberman's attention. A crackly recording of a phone call captures Dylan at a chatty, egotistical peak, responding to Weberman's taunts by proclaiming himself the world's best songwriter and deriding others as "faggots" before signing off by telling Weberman, "See ya Monday." Weberman could be hailed as the forefather of today's muck-raking celebrity journalism like SmokingGun.com or Perez Hilton, but he'd probably brush off that honor in order to spend another hour thinking about his man, Bob.