TO borrow the title of a Bob Dylan song, it was a case of “one more cup of coffee” for the film director. (Or perhaps not, as you’ll see.) When James Mangold got stuck into making his biopic A

A Complete Unknown is the actor’s best performance: not merely an imitation of Dylan, but an interpretation of his work.

The makers of A Complete Unknown gave up trying to make the singer-songwriter sympathetic, and let his music – and a bravura turn from Timothée Chalamet – provide the heart.

BEFORE Dune, before Wonka, before he met girlfriend Kylie Jenner, Timothée Chalamet signed up for his most challenging role . . .   . . . to play a young Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete

Neil Young had admitted to a historical faux pas, revealing that he once ejected Bob Dylan from his tour bus because he didn't recognise one of the world's most legendary and influential musicians.

The beauty of the movie, and of Timothée Chalamet's performance, is it captures how the secret of Dylan's music was never about what it "means."

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.

Liz Thomson is the author of Joan Baez: The Last Leaf and the revising editor of Robert Shelton’s biography Bob Dylan: No Direction Home. She is the founder of The Village Trip, an annual festival celebrating Greenwich Village.

A Complete Unknown is a 2024 American biopic film directed by James Mangold, starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan. The film is based on the lives of singer and songwriter Bob Dylan. It is based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric!

In one of A Complete Unknown’s wonderful musical scenes, Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) and Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro) perform together at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964. They have had a tumultuous relationship and now Joan barely tolerates Bob,

Demi Moore, who received her first-ever Oscar nomination for Actress in a Leading Role in "The Substance" released the following statement.