Events in recent years
11 September 2001 were marked not only by terrorist attacks in the United States, but also the yield on 31 th studio album, Bob Dylan, «Love and Theft», which was very warmly accepted by critics and audiences. Dylan, known for its negative attitude to the modern studio «wash», self sprodyusiroval this album under the pseudonym «Jack Frost». Monitors pleased that over the years, the musician is expanding its stylistic range: This disc is especially apparent influence of jazz.
Dylan (under the pseudonym «Sergei Petrov») and Larry Charles wrote the script for the film «Shaw Century» (2003), which played - apart from the Dylan - actors such as Penelope Cruz, Jessica Lanzh and Val Kilmer. This film is not impressed by film critics. In October 2004, a presentation of the first part of his autobiography dilanovskoy «Chronicles». In September 2005, BBC television showed a documentary by Martin Scorsese «No way home» about the life and work of the young Dylan. In 2006, started shooting on Dilanu bayopika «There is no me». In this picture busy Cate Blanchett, Christian Bailey, Richard Gere and Heath Ledzher.
29 August 2006, the release of the album was «Modern Times», which completes the trilogy of albums, started «Time Out of Mind» and the continuation of «Love and Theft». The album has gone down in history, debuted on the first line in the Billboard 200. Thus, the 65-year-old Bob Dylan became the artist of age, who managed to conquer the American sales charts. Vocal music has become even more blatant (if not senile), but this had no impact on the assessment of the recording music critics. For example, Rolling Stone magazine called «Modern Times» best disk-year, and the American Academy of recordings prize awarded Dilanu «Grammy» for best solo rock performance.
In April 2008, Bob Dylan received a Pulitzer Prize «outstanding influence on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of exceptional poetic force».