A Complete Unknown is a 2024 American biographical musical drama film directed by James Mangold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jay Cocks, about American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.Based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald, the film portrays Dylan through his earliest folk music success until the momentous controversy over his use of electric instruments at the 1965 Newport ...

Dec 24, 2024 · “A Complete Unknown” opens with a recording by Woody Guthrie, one of the main influences on a young Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet), who we meet on his way to introduce himself to the man whose work “struck him to the ground.”

Dec 25, 2024 · An unknown 19-year-old named Bob Dylan arrives with his revolutionary talent. He forges relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a performance that reverberates worldwide.

Dec 25, 2024 · Not everything in the new Bob Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown' is perfect truth—here's what's fact, and what's fiction, in the new film.

Dec 24, 2024 · Here’s what you need to know about the real history behind A Complete Unknown, as well as the life and legend of Dylan, ahead of the film’s release in theaters on December 25. The inspiration...

Dec 25, 2024 · The biopic, with Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, is peppered with figures from the folk world and beyond. These are some of them.

3 days ago · At its best, “A Complete Unknown" is not so much about Dylan as about how we react to Dylan: Some of the most galvanizing and successful scenes, like the ones in which we see the first takes of ...

Dec 25, 2024 · T he Bob Dylan of James Mangold’s extraordinary anti-biopic A Complete Unknown—who may or may not be an accurate version of the real Bob Dylan—is a jerk. He blows into New York in 1961,...

Dec 25, 2024 · “A Complete Unknown” is based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 nonfiction page-turner “Dylan Goes Electric!,” which is helpfully subtitled “Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the ...