Even though A Complete Unknown glosses over Pete Seeger's trial, the true story of the FBI investigation and Congress hearing ...
In Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, James Mangold uses Dylan's mentors Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Johnny Cash to signpost ...
How far can a biography stray from accepted reality before it ascends to the realm of mythos? That’s the core struggle at the ...
Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...
The artist born Robert Zimmerman may not have acknowledged his debt to her, but Seeger is widely regarded as a foundational ...
The title of the biopic “A Complete Unknown” comes from a line in “Like a Rolling Stone,” Bob Dylan’s masterwork and a song ...
Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...
Edward Norton as Pete Seeger in "A Complete Unknown." (Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) ...
There’s a priceless moment early in “A Complete Unknown” when folk icon Pete Seeger returns to the cabin where he lives with his family after offering a young singer named Bob Dylan a place ...
Film director James Mangold also tells Esther McCarthy why he focused on that crucial early period in Dylan's career ...