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 …
Read More »Bob Dylan Slipped a Totally Inaccurate Scene Into His Own Biopic
During the making of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, due Dec. 25, Timotheé Chalamet complimented director/co-screenwriter James Mangold on a particular piece of dialogue. “Bob put that in,” Mangold replied. As Rolling Stone‘s new cover story reveals, Dylan and Mangold met multiple times before production began. “I felt …
Read More »Timotheé Chalamet Belts Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' in 'A Complete Unknown' Trailer
In the A Complete Unknown trailer, Timotheé Chalamet’s Bob Dylan faces the pressure to define himself as his music career reaches stratospheric heights. “Two hundred people in that room and each one wants me to be somebody else,” Chalamet says in the trailer. By the end of the trailer, released …
Read More »'A Complete Unknown,' With Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, to Hit Theaters on Christmas
A Complete Unknown, director James Mangold‘s film about Bob Dylan‘s early years, is going big with its release date, hitting theaters on the prime, Oscar-candidate date of Dec. 25. The film —which stars Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo (closely based on Dylan’s real-life girlfriend Suze …
Read More »Inside 'A Complete Unknown': How Timothée Chalamet Became Bob Dylan
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 …
Read More »Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City' Has Sharply Divided Cannes
Imagine you’re a filmmaker, and you’ve assembled a dream cast of A-list stars, crack character actors, and your usual stock company of famous faces. Your production-design team has gifted you with a set that’s evocative of a 1950s Southwestern desert landscape, complete with Monument Valley vistas and Route 66 iconography. …
Read More »'Glass Onion': Daniel Craig's Supersleuth Returns for Another Screw-the-Rich Mystery
The good people at Netflix would prefer that reviewers, critics, pundits, wags, culture vultures and other assorted ne’er-do-wells who write about movies on the internet not spoil any of the many twists and turns of Glass Onion, the much-anticipated sequel to Rian Johnson‘s 2019 tribute/throwback to whodunnits Knives Out. It’s …
Read More »'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' Trailer Is a Chaotic Whodunit as Daniel Craig Suspects Everybody
“Everyone is in danger,” Daniel Craig‘s Detective Benoit Blanc proclaims in the action-packed teaser trailer for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. The film, coming to Netflix on Dec. 23, is a sequel to 2019’s popular murder mystery Knives Out, which introduced Craig’s sly detective. “The phrase I kept coming …
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