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Andrew Curry writes: One of the quirks of Hollywood is that it likes to release big event movies in North America on Christmas Day—the theory is that they build momentum across the holiday season.

(Film poster for A Complete Unknown. Courtesy Searchlight Pictures. Fair use.)

And that means that our Toronto-based contributor Bill Taylor will be in the queue for A Complete Unknown, the new Dylan film, later on today, and has promised to rush us a review in the next 48 hours.

UPDATE: read the review, now published, at 

https://www.salutlive.com/2024/12/dylan-movie-a-complete-unknown-review-timothee-chalamet-james-mangold-newport.html#:~:text=Bill%20Taylor%20writes%3A%20There's%20a,wouldn't%20bet%20against%20it.

If you’ve missed the hoopla about the film, it stars Timothee Chalamet as the young Bob Dylan, and covers the years from his arrival in New York as an unknown 19-year old through to the controversy about the electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Pete Seeger spent the rest of his life denying that he tried to cut the sound cables with an axe because the sound was too loud, and even apologised to Dylan publicly much later on.

The film opens in the UK in mid-January, and we have more coverage scheduled for then. In fact, January will be a bit of a bumper month for Dylan, since the week after the UK release is also the 50th anniversary of Blood on the Tracks.

Watch this space for all of that, and in the meantime by way of a warm up here’s an actual clip from 1965 of Dylan playing Like A Rolling Stone at Newport with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Al Kooper.