Now that the box-office success of A Complete Unknown has achieved the seemingly impossible feat of turning at least a few Gen-Z viewers into Bob Dylan stans, Hollywood’s biopic wave is about to turn into a tsunami. Next up is the Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy …
Read More »Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning Reenact 'Holding Space' Meme
A Complete Unknown stars Timothée Chalamet and Elle Fanning got in on the meme fun during a recent interview with reporter Tracy E. Gilchrist. The reporter, who was interviewing them for The Advocate, had the internet in a frenzy in November when she went viral after telling Wicked stars Cynthia …
Read More »Need More Bob Dylan? Here's What to Read (and Watch) After 'A Complete Unknown'
Timothée Chalamet’s turn as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown earned praise from critics, including Rolling Stone’s David Fear, but like any biopic, some details and facts get left out or rearranged. The notoriously mercurial Dylan, who had input in the James Mangold biopic, even slipped a made-up scene into …
Read More »Who Was Suze Rotolo, the Inspiration for Elle Fanning's Character in 'A Complete Unknown'?
You probably don’t know her name, but you definitely know her face — bright and beaming, covered in chestnut hair, a few feet away from a blue Volkswagen bus. She’s wearing a green loden coat she just bought on a eight-month trip to Italy, a perfect match for the black …
Read More »The World's Hardest Bob Dylan Quiz
Bob Dylan has all sorts of fans. There are casual ones who dig “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” are fairly certain he didn’t write “Stuck in the Middle With You,” and know about his days as a protest singer in the Sixties. There are moderate ones who …
Read More »'A Complete Unknown' Asks the Question: Why Do We Keep Returning to Greenwich Village?
At the start of James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, a young, determined-looking Bob Dylan (played by Timothée Chalamet) arrives in the Greenwich Village of 1961. He’s immediately thrust into an urban jumble of coffeehouses, bars, zigzagging streets, and tiny city apartments, even if New Jersey locales stood in for the …
Read More »Timothée Chalamet Channels Infamous Bob Dylan Look at 'Complete Unknown' New York Premiere
Timothée Chalamet capped a week of promoting A Complete Unknown Friday by channeling one of Bob Dylan’s most infamous looks at the film’s New York premiere event. A night after cosplaying a different Dylan outfit on The Late Show, Chalamet appeared at the SVA Theater wearing a leather coat, gray …
Read More »What the Bob Dylan Biopic 'A Complete Unknown' Gets Wrong
Midway through the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, Dylan has an angry confrontation with his girlfriend, Sylvia Russo, about why he never makes any reference to his past. “People make up their past, Sylvie!” he roars. “They remember what they want. They forget the rest.” Dylan has been …
Read More »Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams to Recreate 'Blood on the Tracks' at 50th Anniversary Show
Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, and many other musicians will recreate Bob Dylan‘s 1975 masterpiece Blood on the Tracks onstage at a 50th anniversary concert next month, joined by three of the album’s original musicians. The Jan. 24 tribute concert, Shelter From the Storm, is organized by the Bob Dylan Center …
Read More »'A Complete Unknown': Don't Think Twice, Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan Biopic Is Alright
He’s just a boy from the north country — Hibbing, Minnesota, to be exact, though trust us, you do not want to get caught up in the facts here — in the back of a station wagon, hitchin’ a ride to New York City in search of a hero and …
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