After the events of A Complete Unknown, Pete Seeger went on to a long and successful career in both music and activism.
Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most penetrating socially conscious songs of the early 1960s — “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “The Times They Are A-Changin’,
Film director James Mangold also tells Esther McCarthy why he focused on that crucial early period in Dylan's career
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 ...
Joan Baez: Do I ever hear from Bob Dylan? ‘Not a word’Opens in new window ] Pete Seeger’s voice had gone by the time of his death in 2014, she says. She shrugs and smiles. “Mine ...
When Newport Folk Festival historian and author Rick Massimo walked into a movie theater to see “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, he assumed he would have to suspend disbelief for the film’s 2-hours-plus running time.
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 ...
The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at age 86.
Seeger was a celebrated presence in the Greenwich Village folk scene into which an unknown singer-songwriter named Bob Dylan would drop in 1961.
Toward the end of A Complete Unknown, a good biopic about Bob Dylan that opened on Christmas, there is a key scene in which Dylan manager Albert Grossman barks at folk music legend Pete Seeger, “You’re pushing candles,
I must heartily disagree with my friend Amy Worden’s recent column on Pete Seeger’s depiction in the Bob Dylan film, “A Complete Unknown.”
Filmmaker James Mangold tapped production designer François Audouy to create a replica of Dylan's New York. Their first stop? New Jersey.