James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown is a highly entertaining biopic of Bob Dylan’s rise to fame in the 1960’s, but it’s also a deliberate attempt to keep the mystery intact and let the music speak for itself.
Great read - thanks fro writing. Agree with everything, although I'd add to the reasoning for that early scene with Dylan singing Song for Woody: as well as establishing his folk-superstar-in-the-making credentials, it also ties him (for people who don't know) to an American musical/cultural lineage that will underpin his career (and its values amid a changing political world)...
Exceptional movie for its direction and acting. That it never made my best of list proves that 2024 was an exceptional year for movies (and documentaries).
There are so many movies every year, there’s hundreds trying to get into Cannes, so their creators all think they’ve got something worth watching. Who can keep up with that?
Great read - thanks fro writing. Agree with everything, although I'd add to the reasoning for that early scene with Dylan singing Song for Woody: as well as establishing his folk-superstar-in-the-making credentials, it also ties him (for people who don't know) to an American musical/cultural lineage that will underpin his career (and its values amid a changing political world)...
Great point! Absolutely in agreement with!
Exceptional movie for its direction and acting. That it never made my best of list proves that 2024 was an exceptional year for movies (and documentaries).
I believe most years have a fair number of exceptional movies, most of the time it’s just a question of finding them :-)
This was the most difficult year to watch them all. I loved at least 60 indie movies, and that's supposed to be the small category.
There are so many movies every year, there’s hundreds trying to get into Cannes, so their creators all think they’ve got something worth watching. Who can keep up with that?
I wish I could watch a thousand movies a year.
Now there’s as a noble ambition if I ever heard one!
More ignoble, but I would love to earn that selfishness by the time I turn 60.
Still, a very impressive performance! I’m lucky to see one movie a day, if that. Oh well :-)