The film’s title, “A Complete Unknown,” serves as a guide for how it approaches its subject material. Mangold’s script works to uphold the mythology of Dylan as an unknowable artist — who, from the beginning, was reluctant to be defined by others and by himself.
I’ve wanted to go to the Newport Folk Festival since I was fourteen years old. That was the year that I saw the Bob Dylan documentary “No Direction Home,” and watched the clips of Dylan’s legendary...
