Neil Younger “cherished” Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Full Unknown’
Neil Younger has declared that he’s a fan of the “nice” new Bob Dylan biopic, A Full Unknown.
The movie stars Timothée Chalamet because the music legend, telling the story of his rise from a breakout star of Greenwich Village’s people scene within the early Sixties to his controversial efficiency on the Newport People Pageant in 1965, the place he carried out dwell with electrical devices for the primary time.
The movie was launched in the US on December 25 and might be out in UK cinemas from January 17, and one viewers member who seems to have already had fun with it’s fellow rock icon Younger.
Writing on his web site Neil Young Archives on Saturday (January 11), he mentioned: “I like Bob Dylan and his music. At all times have. He’s an excellent artist. As soon as he was on my bus and I didn’t acknowledge him and threw him off however that’s one other story. This film is a superb tribute to his life and music. I feel in the event you love Bob’s music it is best to see this nice film. I cherished it.”
Younger and Dylan have been longtime mutual admirers, showing alongside one another in Martin Scorsese’s seminal 1978 live performance movie The Final Waltz for a model of the latter’s ‘I Shall Be Launched’.
The 2 artists additionally performed a joint headline present at London’s Hyde Park in July 2019, which NME attended. “Right here’s to those two icons doing precisely what the hell they need, every time they need,” NME wrote in a four-star evaluation. “Typically it seems like we count on and generally it doesn’t, however it’s all the time a thrill.”
With A Full Unknown about to hit cinemas, NME has launched a particular print version journal celebrating the movie and the legacy of Dylan. The 26-page one-shot is offered now – discover out the place to get it right here.
NME awarded A Full Unknown 4 stars, writing: “A very powerful (and infrequently trickiest) job of any music film is to get the music proper. And this nails that. Should you’re a Bob beginner, you’ll depart the cinema able to dive into his again catalogue. Should you’re already a fan, the following few weeks might be spent making playlists of lesser-known B-sides or studying the lore round a scene you weren’t accustomed to. And that’s why it was a good suggestion to make this movie – a mad concept, however an excellent one.”
Dylan himself has been complimentary about Chalamet, describing him as a “good actor” and saying he’s “certain he’s going to be utterly plausible as me. Or a youthful me. Or another me.”
Dylan additionally had some impression on the movie’s script, as revealed by producer Peter Jaysen. “He met with [director] Jim Mangold a number of occasions,” he mentioned.
“At one level they sat there and so they learn all the script out loud, with Jim Mangold studying each half and stage path, and Bob Dylan solely studying strains of dialogue for himself. By that course of, [Dylan] sat there writing notes on the script. On the finish of the final session with Jim Mangold, he signed the script and mentioned, ‘Go together with God.’”
Younger, in the meantime, is ready for an enormous summer season as he has been confirmed as one of many headliners for Glastonbury 2025, after initially asserting he had withdrawn from taking part in the competition as a consequence of inventive variations.