There’s the business of making movies and then there’s the business of marketing movies. Things seem to have gone well on both fronts for "A Complete Unknown," as Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan movie is performing well at the box office and earning rave reviews from critics and fans.
Four-time Oscar nominee Edward Norton showcases a benevolent side as folk singer Pete Seeger in A Complete Unknown. Just don't tell him he's playing against type.
Film director James Mangold also tells Esther McCarthy why he focused on that crucial early period in Dylan's career
TO borrow the title of a Bob Dylan song, it was a case of “one more cup of coffee” for the film director. (Or perhaps not, as you’ll see.) When James Mangold got stuck into making his biopic A
"A Complete Unknown," the biopic chronicling the swift pop-cultural ascent of Minnesota native Bob Dylan in the early 1960s, has been nominated for eight Academy Awards.
For the newly Dylan-curious, Melbourne uber-fan Chris O’Connor’s 200-page cheat-note is a timely next step. “You don’t need a weatherman” is a line from Subterranean Homesick Blues, a song “some have described as proto-rap,” he notes like that one cool teacher who knows how to make you pop out an earbud and look up for a sec.
A Complete Unknown is the actor’s best performance: not merely an imitation of Dylan, but an interpretation of his work.
The beauty of the movie, and of Timothée Chalamet's performance, is it captures how the secret of Dylan's music was never about what it "means."
On January 16, 2025, in the sumptuous surroundings of the Hotel Bristol in Paris, a press conference was held with Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Monica Barbaro and director James Mangold to mark the eagerly-awaited release of Un Parfait Inconnu, a daring biopic devoted to Bob Dylan.
It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why “A Complete Unknown” is expected to scoop up its fair share of nominations for this year’s Oscars ceremony. Director James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic has a lot of ground to cover,
There’s the business of making movies and then there’s the business of marketing movies. Things seem to have gone well on both fronts for "A Complete Unknown," as Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan movie is performing well at the box office and earning rave reviews from critics and fans.
The Hollywood actor portrays American singer-songwriter and musician Pete Seeger in the Bob Dylan biopic, which is out now.