BBC4 has announced plans to celebrate Bob Dylan‘s music ahead of the release of his biopic A Complete Unknown.
BBC4 will run a series of programs that will dive into Dylan’s career on January 10 – a week ahead of the film’s release.
The celebrations will begin at 10:20 pm GMT with a broadcast of Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, a 2005 documentary film by Martin Scorsese that explores the period between Dylan’s arrival in New York in January 1961 and his “retirement” from touring following his motorcycle accident in July 1966.
BBC4 will also air Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom, a live concert film shot in California in 2021, while Dylan’s Never Ending Tour was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Meanwhile, Timothee Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in the biopic on the legendary musician’s arrival to New York City in 1961.
A synopsis reads, “Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A Complete Unknown follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.”
A Complete Unknown was directed by James Mangold. The movie also stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, and Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax.
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