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Will ‘A Complete Unknown’ Spur a Bob Dylan-Led Biopic Boom?
'A Complete Unknown' brings Bob Dylan to the big screen — and shows how parts of old stories can become great new films. Let’s have more of them.
The definitive modern pop music documentary was Beatles Anthology, the 1995 multi-night television project released with three CD sets of band outtakes and a coffee table book. How surprising was Dylan’s decision to play with a rock band, given that the half-electric album Bringing It All Back Home had been out for three months and the single “Like A Rolling Stone” came out five days before the show? In the movie, by the time people realize that this brash young Jewish kid from Minnesota didn’t really work in a traveling circus, he had managed to acquire his own mystique.
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