Sure, we’ve had Bob Dylan films before. But when you’re one of the most iconic musicians in American history, your story can support a bunch of different adaptations. So, it’s okay to be excited by the upcoming film, “A Complete Unknown.”

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As seen in the trailer, “A Complete Unknown” tells the story of Bob Dylan, from his early days just playing wherever he can to when he’s a sensation.

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There are few musicians that can rival the influence and popularity of Bob Dylan. He’s an absolute legend. That’s what makes the upcoming biopic, “A Complete Unknown,” so interesting. 

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As seen in the teaser, “A Complete Unknown” traces Bob Dylan’s surprising rise from a simple folk singer to one of the most popular artists in the world.

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Filmmaker James Mangold (“Ford V. Ferrari,” “Logan”) is seemingly working at a furious pace. Less than a year after releasing “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” he’s already shooting his next movie, the Bob Dylan biopic, “A Complete Unknown,” Timothée Chalamet. While we’ve seen a brief teaser image and lots of set photos, now brand new footage of Chalamet singing while on the set of the upcoming music-fueled filmhas emerged online and can be viewed below.

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With a mixed critical reception and low numbers at the box office, James Mangold‘s new entry in the “Indiana Jones” franchise is officially a disappointment. But that’s not entirely Mangold’s fault. It’s a rough summer for movies so far, and Mangold had some big shoes to fill, following in Steven Spielberg‘s footsteps.

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Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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Timothée Chalamet stays busy in 2023, with Denis Villenueve‘s “Dune: Part Two” and Paul King‘s “Wonka” in theaters later this year. But what about after that? Well, he and James Mangold team up for a Bob Dylan biopic, and according to the director, Chalamet will do his own singing as the legendary folk musician.

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EW reports (via Collider) that Mangold confirmed at the Star Wars Celebration this past weekend that Chalamet will use his voice as Dylan in the upcoming movie.

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Remember, January 2020? Sure, the world still felt as if it was going to fall apart, but we had no idea the COVID pandemic was just on the horizon. It was page 2 news, at best. So, when it was announced that Timothée Chalamet was signed on to play Bob Dylan in a new film by James Mangold, it was exciting news. But then, less than a year later, reports came out that “Going Electric,” the Bob Dylan biopic, was shelved due to COVID restrictions.

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Grappling with questions about “folk authenticity” and the relationship between artistry and commercial success, Richard Peete and Robert Yapkowitz’s excellent new documentary, “Karen Dalton: In My Own Time,” excavates and reclaims Dalton’s narrative, shedding light on the ’60s folk singer life, and contextualizing her against the likes of Bob Dylan and Tim Hardin. Foregrounding her personal relationships— with band members and a string of boyfriends — “In My Own Time,” named after her second album, retraces Dalton’s life through a mix of archival footage, interviews, and diary entries read by singer/songwriter Angel Olson.

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Daniel Gellar and Dayna Goldfine’s “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” begins at what is, by most definitions, the end: with Cohen’s final concert, in December of 2013. He roams the stage, growling out the title song in his trademark fedora and black suit, with all 79 of his years behind it, and it sounds like both a dirge and a celebration. By this time, the omnipresent “Hallelujah” was the song Cohen was most associated with, its strange combination of spirituality and sin, of operatic emotion and shrugging acceptance, making it a standard – the 21st century’s “Yesterday.” 

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But there’s a whole oddball history there, a strange, twisted story of the “Hallelujah” path from forgotten album track to cultural ubiquity, first told in Alan Light’s 2012 book “The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of ‘Hallelujah’” (Light is credited here as a consultant), and later on in Malcolm Gladwell’s “Revisionist History” podcast.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Two of the best indie films of 2020 make their way onto disc and VOD this week, alongside a quietly affecting documentary, a frantic comedy/drama, a couple of sterling catalog releases, and a Criterion edition of the latest Scorsese and Dylan collaboration. 

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Back in January, when COVID wasn’t a global pandemic and the film industry was operating as if everything was perfectly fine, it was announced that Timothée Chalamet was set to star as Bob Dylan in a biopic directed by James Mangold. Even if you’re not a huge fan of Dylan, the idea of Chalamet teaming with Mangold is enough to get any film fan excited. Unfortunately, that was a time that feels like an entirely different world now.

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Ever since “Bohemian Rhapsody” earned more than $900 million worldwide, we’ve seen a massive influx of studio projects relating to musical icons. And while some of them are headscratchers, like the Boy George biopic, Fox Searchlight has a film coming that is nothing short of a must-see, and they haven’t even begun filming yet. But hey, that’s what you get when you have one of the most acclaimed filmmakers working today teaming with the hottest young actor for a film about one of the most legendary musicians — Bob Dylan.

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Few cultural figures are so well known, yet fundamentally mysterious and unknowable, like Bob Dylan, which is probably why the music icon is such an irresistible subject for documentarians. Dylan’s career seems designed to frustrate classifiers and analysts – an eternal willingness to torch the past, reject your expectations, abandon what works with audiences, cross boundaries, and invent new personas, accompanied by openly fabricating about his life and intentions.

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In some of his on-screen appearances, such as D.A.

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A new doc about Bob Dylan that features interviews with the man himself and those closest to him is enough to warrant a watch from any music fan. Now, if that documentary is directed by iconic filmmaker Martin Scorsese, then you have something that is a must-watch for just about everyone on the planet. And so, the world better make some time in June to watch ‘Rolling Thunder Revue.’

As seen in the trailer for ‘Rolling Thunder Revue,’ the film follows the story of Dylan and the group of friends and fellow musicians that he brought on tour in 1975.

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Back in January, it was announced that filmmaking icon Martin Scorsese was going to get back in the documentary game for a new Bob Dylan film that would be released by Netflix. At the time, we knew the film would be coming later this year, but outside of that, and a few other bits of info, the project was a mystery. Now, thanks to a report from Variety, we have some more info, a poster, and finally, a release date.

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Martin Scorsese is going back to the Bob Dylan well one more time. And sooner than you might think.

According to Variety, the legendary director is working on a new documentary (of sorts) titled “’Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese.” Best of all, this new film is scheduled to be released on Netflix sometime in 2019. That’s right, Netflix and Martin Scorsese are performing double-duty this year.

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Luca Guadagnino is a filmmaker that is developing a bit of a name for himself for tackling interesting, unique projects. Coming off an Oscar-winning coming-of-age film, “Call Me By Your Name,” the director transitioned into a hard-R remake of the Dario Argento horror classic “Suspiria.” Now, it appears that Guadagnino is tackling a film based on a Bob Dylan album.

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In a New Yorker profile, it is revealed that the acclaimed filmmaker is ready to tackle a feature adaptation of Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks.” The 1975 album is generally regarded as one of Dylan’s finest, and the interpretations of the lyrical content has been greatly debated for decades.

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Unlike some legendary A-list filmmakers, Martin Scorsese has always been fairly prolific. He fairly reliably knocks out a movie every two or three years, and has never let more than four pass between major films (the gap between “The Departed” and “Shutter Islalnd” was his longest. Somehow, in that time, Scorsese’s also been a fairly prolific documentary filmmaker as well — this century alone has seen his films on Bob Dylan, George Harrison, The Rolling Stones and the New York Review Of Books, among many others.

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Rock ‘n’ roll has never seen an artist quite like Bob Dylan. Hugely popular yet enigmatic and private, it took Martin Scorsese to peel back the layers of the musician in his 2005 documentary opus, “No Direction Home: Bob Dylan.” And now, with the film celebrating its 10th anniversary, it’s getting a fresh release on home video.

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Arriving on DVD, Blu-ray, and a Deluxe Box Set, “No Direction Home: Bob Dylan” will be coming packaged with over two hours of never-before-seen footage and interviews.

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Soundtrack To ‘St. Vincent’ Starring Bill Murray Features Jeff Tweedy, Bob Dylan, The National & More

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All The Songs In 'Warm Bodies' Including Feist, Bon Iver, M83, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen & More

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Film Adaptation Of Bob Dylan's 'Blood On The Tracks' In The Works

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