Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most penetrating socially conscious songs of the early 1960s — “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “The Times They Are A-Changin’,
After the events of A Complete Unknown, Pete Seeger went on to a long and successful career in both music and activism.
In Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, James Mangold uses Dylan's mentors Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Johnny Cash to signpost his musical evolution.
The artist born Robert Zimmerman may not have acknowledged his debt to her, but Seeger is widely regarded as a foundational voice of modern folk
The makers of A Complete Unknown gave up trying to make the singer-songwriter sympathetic, and let his music – and a bravura turn from Timothée Chalamet – provide the heart.
In the opening scenes of A Complete Unknown, James Mangold’s Bob Dylan movie, a young Robert Zimmerman (Timothée Chalamet) makes his way to a New Jersey hospital, guitar in hand, to visit folk singer Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy),
A Complete Unknown is the actor’s best performance: not merely an imitation of Dylan, but an interpretation of his work.
Oscar-nominated director James Mangold directs Timothée Chalamet as the Nobel-Prize winning Musician Bob Dylan in 'A Complete Unknown'. Starring Chalamet with Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo,
Demi Moore, who received her first-ever Oscar nomination for Actress in a Leading Role in "The Substance" released the following statement.
There is none of that in “A Complete Unknown.” I realized Timothée and Monica Barbaro (Joan Baez) were singing and playing. Neither Monica nor Boyd Holbrook (Johnny Cash) had played any instruments before and were subject to five months of tutoring.
Cape May more than did its part playing 1965 Newport, Rhode Island, in "A Complete Unknown." But for locals, there was a final plot twist: No mention of Cape May.