Along with his friends
the Band, the musician most identified with the Woodstock area is, of course,
Bob Dylan. Thus, A Complete Unknown, the new biopic about the iconic
singer-songwriter should be of particular interest to a great many movie goers
and music fans in the Hudson Valley. The film opened during the holiday weekend
and is now playing at several cinemas around the region.
Directed by James Mangold
(Walk the Line, Cop Land), A Complete Unknown stars
Timothee Chalamet as Dylan, Edward Norton as his Beacon mentor Pete Seeger, and
Monica Barbero as Joan Baez. The film follows the story of the young artist’s
arrival on the New York folk scene in 1961 on a quest to meet his hero Woody
Guthrie, his relationship with activist and girlfriend Sylvia Russo (nee Suze Rotolo; played by Elle Fanning)
and others and his forging of his persona and early rise to fame, all of it
leading up to the culture-shifting firestorm of his famous “electric” performance
at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
A Complete Unknown is
showing now at Tink Street Cinema in Woodstock, Upstate Films’ Orpheum Theatre in
Saugerties and Starr Cinema in Rhinebeck, NGC Cinemas in Kingston, Lyceum Cinemas
in Red Hook, the Roosevelt Theatre in Hyde Park, the Regal Galleria Mall
theater in Poughkeepsie, the Movie House in Millerton, AMC Crystal Run 16 theater
in Middletown, the Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and other
outlets. See Fandango for cinema locations and individual screening schedules.
This article appears in December 2024.
