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#1 2025-01-27 11:01:28
- FlatSixC
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A Complete Unknown
It’s been mentioned elsewhere so I’m not being very original here -
But, I would highly recommend the film A Complete Unknown; the story of Bob Dylan’s arrival in New York with a suitcase and a guitar. How he became a big star and his break with folk music. I’m not a Dylan fan, although naturally I acknowledge his place in music history. Despite that, I would say it’s the best music film I’ve seen bar none.
The music sequences, the sets, locations, casting and the portrayal of New York’s Greenwich Village in the early 60s are all perfectly done. The clothing is a treat, not just the Ivy but the Americana stuff worn by everyone you see in the film and there’s hundreds of them.
#2 2025-01-27 13:48:22
- Kingston1an
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Re: A Complete Unknown
Just back from watching it in Wimbledon. £7 on Mondays. Spoons had decent beers beforehand, plus neeps and tatties for Burns Night with a premium gin and tonic.
Dylan's music was excellent, but he is a phoney and a poseur.
Good film with inaccuracies. 'Judas' cry was in Manchester not America etc.
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Play it f***ing loud ' was also a UK instruction.
Pete Seeger was on 'Sunday Night at the London Palladium' along with the high-kicking Tiller girls etc. He sang 'little boxes'. Lots of blacklisted US communists used to get work in the UK.
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#3 2025-01-28 01:22:30
- Tomiskinky
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Re: A Complete Unknown
It’s an adaptation from the book Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties, Rolling Stone give the reason below for the lack of correct chronology
This is a Hollywood biopic that attempts to cram a very intense four-year period of history into a two-hour-and-21-minute movie. The filmmakers had little choice but to compress the timeline, eliminate major characters, and favor emotional truth over strict historical truth.
The styling of the film was excellent, especially loved the slightly threadbare green popover on Seeger
#4 2025-01-28 04:10:12
- Staxfan
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Re: A Complete Unknown
' Inside Llewelyn Davis' is a Coen Brothers film from a few years back (2013 ?) set in 1961 Greenwich Village about a guy trying to make it in the folk music world, some of you might know it but if not certainly worth a watch if you liked ACU,
#5 2025-01-28 07:31:07
- Kingston1an
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Re: A Complete Unknown
As for Coen Brothers, ' The Man who wasnt there. ' is a cracking film that never gets mentioned. Tony Soprano and her from Fargo feature.
Saw it in The Barbican after work on one of the cheap nights. Strange place - folk came in with suitcases. Probably down on business and caught a film before heading back. Barbican also has a fantastic library.
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#6 2025-01-28 07:32:29
- Kingston1an
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Re: A Complete Unknown
It's also black and white. So appropriate for film noir.
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."