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
The "guitar that killed folk" is listed for an asking price of $275,000 on musical instrument resale site Reverb.
There’s a priceless moment early in “A Complete Unknown” when folk icon Pete Seeger returns to the cabin where he lives with his family after offering a young singer named Bob Dylan a place ...
A Complete Unknown's account of Dylan's crucial transitional period misses the most interesting thing about it
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.”
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.
Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan and Edward Norton as Pete Seeger in ‘A Complete Unknown’. CREDIT: Macall Polay courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. All three actors were astonished seeing Chalame ...
Filmmaker James Mangold tapped production designer François Audouy to create a replica of Dylan's New York. Their first stop? New Jersey.
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.