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"The film also stars Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash alongside Chalamet. Edward Norton took over to play Pete Seeger after Benedict Cumberbatch had to drop out due to production delays. Just last year, Mangold spoke of the film in an episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, “It’s a kind of ensemble piece about this moment in time, the early ’60s in New York, and this 17-year-old kid with $16 in his pockets hitchhikes his way to New York to meet Woody Guthrie who is in the hospital and is dying of a nerve disease. He sings Woody a song that he wrote for him and befriends Pete Seeger, who is like a son to Woody, and Pete sets him up with gigs at local clubs and there you meet Joan Baez and all these other people who are part of this world.” There is no official release date for the film just yet."

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First Look At Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan Has Surfaced

The biopic 'A Complete Unknown' just began filming in New York.
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Bob Dylan’s 60 Greatest Songs: Chosen by Paul McCartney, Bono, Patti Smith, Nick Cave and more!

To celebrate Bob Dylan’s birthday, a galaxy of stars pick their favourite Dylan tracks. 60. Lonesome Day Blues 59. Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues 58. Po’ Boy
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To celebrate Bob Dylan’s birthday, a galaxy of stars pick their favourite ever Dylan tracks.​


"Picking a favourite Bob Dylan song is in many ways an impossible task. This being Dylan, an artist who five decades in is still producing some of his finest work, a list of just 60 tracks means that some of the greatest songs ever composed might not be present (whaddayamean there’s no Isis/I Want You/Mississippi?!?). But by handing the choices over to Dylan’s fellow musicians and songwriters, we feel we’ve given a different perspective (another side of, if you will) on Dylan’s craft and enduring genius. And these aren’t just any musicians, either.

Some of the names below played on and helped record many of the songs featured, while modern-day acolytes including Beck, Bono and Lucinda Williams have lined up to pick their favourite Dylan numbers. The closest we have to the heirs to his crown, Nick Cave and Patti Smith reveal a fresh perspective on his work, while Dylan’s one-time mentor Pete Seeger reveals the true story behind Dylan’s decision to go electric.

Elsewhere, West Coast rapper Nas recalls his teenage conversion to Bob, while contemporaries like the late David Crosby, Jimmy Webb and Paul McCartney (arguably the only serious challenger to Dylan’s status as the world’s greatest living songwriter) recall first-hand the seismic changes brought on by Dylan’s songs."
 
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"Led Zeppelin's manager introduced himself to Bob and he told [Bob] that he managed Led Zeppelin. Bob looked at him briefly and said ''I don’t come to you with my problems, do I?''
 
"Timothée Chalamet is Bob Dylan in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. A Film By James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz and Scoot McNairy. [...]

Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician BOB DYLAN’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965."

 
"In his first in-depth interview about his upcoming Bob Dylan movie, director James Mangold goes deep on Chalamet's "acting brilliance" and much more - by Brian Hiatt
JULY 24, 2024"

"Before director James Mangold began production on his Bob Dylan movie, A Complete Unknown, the subject of the film asked him a pointed question. “The first time I sat down with him,” Mangold says, “Bob said, ‘What’s this movie about, Jim?’ I said, ‘It’s about a guy who’s choking to death in Minnesota, and leaves behind all his friends and family and reinvents himself in a brand new place, makes new friends, builds a new family, becomes phenomenally successful, starts to choke to death again — and runs away.”

Dylan took all of that in, and smiled. “I like that,” he said.

A Complete Unknown doesn’t have an official release date yet, but its first teaser trailer dropped today, and Mangold hints it could come out as soon as December. The film’s story begins with Dylan’s arrival in New York in 1961, and ends shortly after his history-making electric performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. It stars Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Elle Fanning as his girlfriend, Sylvie Russo (whom Mangold confirms is simply a renamed version of Dylan’s real-life girlfriend of that era, Suze Rotolo), Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, and Edward Norton as folk legend Pete Seeger.

In his first in-depth interview about A Complete Unknown, Mangold (also the director of Walk The Line, Logan, Ford v Ferrari, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) tells Rolling Stone about the process behind the film, Chalamet’s performance, and much, much more. (To hear an extended audio version of this interview, check out the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast [...]

You previously said that it might be better to describe this movie as an ensemble piece instead of a biopic. Is that still how you’re seeing it, now that you’re much deeper in the process?
I didn’t want to turn Bob Dylan into a simple character with a simple thing to unlock that then makes you go, “Ah, now I get him.” I don’t think that’s possible, having gotten to know him. I also think it’s pretty clear he spent most of his life trying to avoid that exact act by anybody. Which is an act of, by nature, reduction — reducing someone to a simple epiphany, a plot-point Freudian history of their life.

So then my role as a dramatist becomes, if I’m not going to do that… which in a way I did do in Walk the Line. It’s a difference. Johnny Cash is defined by his upbringing, the loss of his brother, the shame he’s carried in life, and an addiction that was driven by the sorrows of his childhood. It lines up very clearly. And his music being about, kind of, imprisonment and darkness — it’s all in incredible, dramatic harmony with these psychological observations about him. None of that would be that easy with Bob.

So when I say it’s a strong ensemble piece, it’s certainly following Bob, but I’m much more interested in the wake that this person has left on others, as much as I’m interested in unpacking who he is in some kind of conventional movie-Freudian way. [...] "

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Inside 'A Complete Unknown': How Timothée Chalamet Became Bob Dylan

In his first in-depth interview about his Bob Dylan movie, director James Mangold goes deep on Chalamet's "acting brilliance" and much, much more
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How Bob Dylan Reassembled Himself

A massive new box set documents Dylan's take-no-prisoners 1974 tour with The Band, when the already-mythic singer-songwriter came roaring back after a nine-year hiatus from playing live.
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A massive new box set documents Dylan's take-no-prisoners 1974 tour with The Band, when the already-mythic singer-songwriter came roaring back after a nine-year hiatus from the stage.
By Elizabeth Nelson
September 20, 2024

"In early 1974, Bob Dylan reunited with his former collaborators The Band for a two-month North American tour. Dylan had been off the road for eight years, recovering from a 1966 motorcycle accident and the psychic fallout of his ascent to lightning-rod megafame in the early-to-mid-'60s. When he returned to the stage in ‘74 Dylan performed his old songs with renewed force and energy, but also seemed determined to reinvent and reassemble them; you could see him becoming the Dylan whose Neverending Tour continues to this day, a contrarian perpetually renegotiating his relationship with his own mythos. Before the Flood, a double LP collection of highlights from the '74 tour, was released in June of that year. Next week, Sony Music will release The 1974 Live Recordings, a sprawling box set containing 431 performances from this same period across 27 CDs. The following essay by Elizabeth Nelson is adapted from the liner notes to that collection ...

... At a certain juncture on the 1974 campaign, Dylan and The Band made a crucial edit to the setlist. On January 10th in Toronto, they landed on “Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)” as the show opener. That’s the first song preserved by Asylum’s 1974 two-LP account Before the Flood. As an opening gambit, it offers the audience a binary choice: “You say you love me/ And you’re thinkin’ of me/ But you know you could be wrong,” giving the crowd 20 more songs to decide. On January 11th, they made another arguably aggressive change. They started with “Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)”—and ended with it too. At one tour stop, Dylan stipulates like a man ready for a brawl: “We’re ending where we started.” He sounds a little insane. The weird and bruising days of the ‘70s were upon us. What once was first was now also last.

Of the 431 songs stretched over 26 discs, perhaps the most personally rewarding is the last song from the last show — “Blowin’ in the Wind,” I’ll be honest: I’ve never loved the song. It always struck me as light Quaker fare which was made even wispier by the ubiquitous easy-listening 1964 cover by Peter, Paul and Mary. But as the last song on the 1974 tour it transcends into something else. Dylan brings out Bill Graham, the legendary promoter, and thanks him for “all he’s done,” and one had better believe there was subtext in that too. Then they proceed to rip through “Blowin’ in the Wind”—one more time before the whole thing falls apart—with the ecstatic energy of Buddy Holly and Little Richard. There it all is: the origin story, the final will and testament, the ultimate confession and the actual flood. Bringing it all back home, if home was a condemned building on a cursed lot. How many roads must a man walk down? Buy the ticket, take the ride."
 
2 massive biopics coming up with Michael’s and Bob’s. Looking forward to both.
 
filmandmusic said:
2 massive biopics coming up with Michael’s and Bob’s. Looking forward to both.
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I am very excited about both! And also thrilled that they are coming out in different calendar years so they won't be competing during awards season lol.
 
staywild23 said:
I am very excited about both! And also thrilled that they are coming out in different calendar years so they won't be competing during awards season lol.
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Yeah I think Chalamet will be an oscar nominee. He is very popular in Hollywood right now and from the (few) looks we had he looks to be nailing his part.
 
I don’t know what happened in my brain but I have been pumping Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde on repeat this week. This Dylan craze return has been long overdue but it still comes as a surprise that it is happening now.

These 3 albums have such a great nasty, bluesy rock n roll sound and Bob is just brilliant in interpreting his lyrics.
 
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As expected, looks like a by-the-number music biopic, with all of the clichés and tropes meant to lure in casuals "Oh my God it's Johnny Cash in that scene, I know who that is!"

I expect nothing more from the MJ one when it's released.
 
kreen said:
As expected, looks like a by-the-number music biopic, with all of the clichés and tropes meant to lure in casuals "Oh my God it's Johnny Cash in that scene, I know who that is!"

I expect nothing more from the MJ one when it's released.
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Fair enough, second trailer is indeed a bit middle of the road. It are all really huge filmstars though, it could make a difference in ticket sales. It’s different with Michael I barely know anyone of the cast.
 
filmandmusic said:
[...] It’s different with Michael I barely know anyone of the cast.
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True but Colman Domingo is awesome! :D

Which is off-topic! As for a second trailer for Bob, haven't watched it but if they keep on putting out different trailers I won't need to go to see the film, lol.
 
zinniabooklover said:
True but Colman Domingo is awesome! :D

Which is off-topic! As for a second trailer for Bob, haven't watched it but if they keep on putting out different trailers I won't need to go to see the film, lol.
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I have the memory of a pea. I already forgot what’s in it so I don’t mind watching trailers once
 
My favorite Dylan tracks. Gonna limit to a top 5 because I don’t have time to make it a hundred 😝

1. Sara
2. Bob Dylan’s Dream
3. Heart Of Mine
4. Boots Of Spanish Leather
5. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
 
filmandmusic said:
My favorite Dylan tracks. Gonna limit to a top 5 because I don’t have time to make it a hundred 😝

1. Sara
2. Bob Dylan’s Dream
3. Heart Of Mine
4. Boots Of Spanish Leather
5. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
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My choices are super-predictable but I don't care. This is the sound track to my childhood. ❤️ 🔥 😲 🥳

1) Positively 4th Street
2) Subterranean Homesick Blues
3) Like A Rolling Stone
4) "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
5) Maggie's Farm
 
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