What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.

[Johnny test]

A Complete Unknown

Watched this a few days ago and i really enjoyed it.
It's a biopic, very classic in its structure (chronological narration), so don't expect too much originality, at least in its form.
Of course, it relies a lot on the story and actors's performance.
The story is well known, it starts at the beginning of Dylan's career, with him meeting Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger and ends when he chose to use electric instruments on stage, around the release of the "Highway 61 Revisited" album.
The performances, especially Chalamet's are top notch, apparently him and other actors also performed the songs which is also quite impressive especially in the case of Monica Barbaro who plays Joan Baez.
As classic as the movie may be it provides a lot of emotions and that's what movies are supposed to do i guess, so if you're interested in Dylan's life and this kind of music, i recommend it, it won't change your life but you'll probably leave the theater with a smile.
For those who didn't know Pete Seeger's work, but love classic rock, i would recommend Bruce Springsteen's "We shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions" (2006), and the live performance of the same songs (In Ireland obviously ) the next year in "Live In Dublin"

 

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A Complete Unknown
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Watched this a few days ago and i really enjoyed it.
It's a biopic, very classic in its structure (chronological narration), so don't expect too much originality, at least in its form.
Of course, it relies a lot on the story and actors's performance.
The story is well known, it starts at the beginning of Dylan's career, with him meeting Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger and ends when he chose to use electric instruments on stage, around the release of the "Highway 61 Revisited" album.
The performances, especially Chalamet's are top notch, apparently him and other actors also performed the songs which is also quite impressive especially in the case of Monica Barbaro who plays Joan Baez.
As classic as the movie may be it provides a lot of emotions and that's what movies are supposed to do i guess, so if you're interested in Dylan's life and this kind of music, i recommend it, it won't change your life but you'll probably leave the theater with a smile.
For those who didn't know Pete Seeger's work, but love classic rock, i would recommend Bruce Springsteen's "We shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions" (2006), and the live performance of the same songs (In Ireland obviously ) the next year in "Live In Dublin"

Haven't seen the movie, thanks for the review.

Reluctant to ... guess I should give it a chance ... maybe Chalamet seems all wrong to me, too much the pretty boy, or I expected some kind of hagiography. Not sure. The Baez angle is intriguing. Diamonds and Rust is such a great song. She even influenced Zeppelin, who knew!

I love that Springsteen album! Foolishly I used to dismiss Seeger as the guy who supposedly tried to stop Dylan "going electric" at Newport in 65, but of course he's far, far more than that ...

If you've never seen it, do see the great Scorsese doc. No Direction Home, about Dylan's evolution up to '66 and the very same controversy about his move to rock. It really felt like betrayal to a lot of people. And catches just how big the guy was back then. A lot of Joan & Seeger in that, if I recall correctly.

Highly recommend the book Positively Fourth Street about Bob, Joan & the Village folk scene of the early sixties. Pretty jaded about the people and egos involved. To that end the Coen Bros.' movie about the same period, Inside Llewyn Davis, though not about Dylan specifically, catches the same jaded, counterintuitive, far from idealistic spirit.

 

[Johnny test]

My most vivid memory of Dylan is by watching "The Last Waltz", it's focused on The Band obviously but Dylan plays a big role in it.
I wouldn't call the movie an hagiography, it's pretty close to the idea i have of Dylan's character but i'm not really an expert. As i said the movie won't challenge you like Dunkirk could for example, it'S very "classic" in every sense of the word. I may be wrong but i don't think Mangold is a particularly innovative director.
I took the movie as it is, a good entertainment with a great casting and i think that's what it is.
You're right Chalamet may be a bit too pretty for the role, i remember people saying the same thing for Elijah Wood/Frodo but it didn't bother me, i think he's got the essence of Dylan, or, at least, my perception of what Dylan is/was.

 

[Doc Holliday]

A Complete Unknown
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Watched this a few days ago and i really enjoyed it.
It's a biopic, very classic in its structure (chronological narration), so don't expect too much originality, at least in its form.
Of course, it relies a lot on the story and actors's performance.
The story is well known, it starts at the beginning of Dylan's career, with him meeting Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger and ends when he chose to use electric instruments on stage, around the release of the "Highway 61 Revisited" album.
The performances, especially Chalamet's are top notch, apparently him and other actors also performed the songs which is also quite impressive especially in the case of Monica Barbaro who plays Joan Baez.
As classic as the movie may be it provides a lot of emotions and that's what movies are supposed to do i guess, so if you're interested in Dylan's life and this kind of music, i recommend it, it won't change your life but you'll probably leave the theater with a smile.
For those who didn't know Pete Seeger's work, but love classic rock, i would recommend Bruce Springsteen's "We shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions" (2006), and the live performance of the same songs (In Ireland obviously ) the next year in "Live In Dublin"

I watched it twice this past weekend & liked it also. I thought the actor who portrayed Johnny Cash also did a good job. He reminded me more of Cash than Joaquin Phoenix did! Chalamet’s performance was a very good one, Same with Barbaro & Ed Norton as Pete Seager. The movie was very good but i knew it didn’t have much of a chance to nab the Oscar since several of the other movies were simply better & more Oscar-worthy. Anora winning was no surprise for me. Mikey Madison’s win was but i was extremely happy she won because it was well deserved & she carried that movie. Many were disappointed Demi Moore didn’t win but to be honest when i watched The Substance i felt that she easily could have been nominated for the best supporting actress award since Margaret Qualley had as much screen time as she did & her own performance was as good in my opinion.

Speaking of Robert Zimmerman i discovered his music in the late 80’s. Then in the early 2000’s i saw him in concert in Montreal & it was the worse concert i had ever seen in my entire life! But i still remain a fan of his early work. Not much a fan of his post 80’s work though!

 

[Johnny test]

I thought the actor who portrayed Johnny Cash also did a good job. He reminded me more of Cash than Joaquin Phoenix

Speaking of Johnny Cash, after watching A complete unknow, i realized Mangold also directed Walk The Line. Both movies are pretty similar in fact in the sense that there are both entertaining but not earth shattering.... and sometimes it's quite enough

 

[Doc Holliday]

Speaking of Johnny Cash, after watching A complete unknow, i realized Mangold also directed Walk The Line. Both movies are pretty similar in fact in the sense that there are both entertaining but not earth shattering.... and sometimes it's quite enough

Oh? I didn’t know this. I really enjoyed ‘Walk the Line’. Especially the music & Reese Witherspoon played a great June Carter. I wasn’t as impressed of Joaquin Phoenix’s performance as the Man in Black as much as others were. I’ve long been a Cash fsn & even saw him in concert once. Phoenix made him look like a psycho!

 

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Dylan's voice was always an acquired taste. Very early on it was supposed to be an indicator of his "authenticity," that he was in the great folk tradition of heroes like Guthrie. Never saw him live, but I get that it only got worse as he aged. I like his live stuff around the Rolling Thunder Revue and some of his studio albums after the mid-70s, especially Oh, Mercy, which is really great. And like Lenny, he never lost his ability to write a great song, Every Grain of Sand ... Jokerman ... etc.

 

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Haha, forget Bob & Joan a moment ... they really should do a movie about these two:

Stereo separation is just bliss, Gram in one ear, Emmylou in the other ...