After the events of A Complete Unknown, Pete Seeger went on to a long and successful career in both music and activism.

Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most penetrating socially conscious songs of the early 1960s — “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “The Times They Are A-Changin’,

The artist born Robert Zimmerman may not have acknowledged his debt to her, but Seeger is widely regarded as a foundational voice of modern folk

Film director James Mangold also tells  Esther McCarthy why he focused on that crucial early period in Dylan's career

A Complete Unknown's account of Dylan's crucial transitional period misses the most interesting thing about it

Timothée Chalamet delivers an amazing performance as young Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown,” which chronicles 19-year-old Dylan’s arrival in New York — after hitchhiking from Minnesota in 1961 — and his rapid rise to fame as a folk singer/songwriter, culminating with his dicey choice four years later to transition into a rock star.

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.

Filmmaker James Mangold tapped production designer François Audouy to create a replica of Dylan's New York. Their first stop? New Jersey.

So enter “A Complete Unknown,” a biopic about Bob Dylan directed by James Mangold and starring Timothée Chalamet. Mangold was once hailed as among the most reliable journeymen in Hollywood before directing the putrid “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

After nearly a month of waiting, Neil Young has finally posted a review of A Complete Unknown on his website, The Neil Young Archives. He liked the movie, but even more interestingly than the rare Shakey movie review, Young revealed that he once threw Bob Dylan off his tour bus because he “didn’t recognize him.”

Bob Dylan approves of his new biopic, A Complete Unknown. “There’s a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown (what a title!),” Bob Dylan himself posted on X last month. “Timothee Chalamet is starring in the lead role.”

The new film, “A Complete Unknown,” tells the story of Bob Dylan’s rise to success in the early 1960s, but the movie leaves out two fascinating Mississippi stories.