This is a scene-by-scene breakdown of the Dylan biopic masterpiece A Complete Unknown co-written and directed by James Mangold. Besides being one of the best living filmmakers, Mangold was undoubtably tapped because of how well he handled the Oscar-winning Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line. After Jeff Rosen and Bob’s management team optioned the […]
“A Complete Unknown” Scene Breakdown – Time Codes, Song Titles, Quotes & Context
March 11th, 2025 · 7 Comments · Movies, New York City
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A Complete Unknown movie review
December 24th, 2024 · 43 Comments · Movies, Music
A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man Here’s what I riffed to social media after I got home from the advance screening on December 18th . . . Caught the sold-out “A Complete Unknown” IMAX screening in Toronto last night — and boy was it GREAT to see it on a […]
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The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa
April 30th, 2023 · 5 Comments · Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
The Setting: The new Bob Center is in Tulsa Oklahoma because the Woody Guthrie Center is there, and because both were paid for by the OK billionaire philanthropist George Kaiser. Tulsa is remarkably like the midwestern town of Winnipeg I grew up in — flat farmland, low-rise, about a half-million people — and both with […]
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