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Song of the Day #6,078: ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ – Timothee Chalamet

Continuing my countdown of last year’s best films…

Best Films of 2024
#5. A Complete Unknown

It occurred to me after the second time I’d watched and loved director James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown that I’d never before seen a biopic about an artist whose work means as much to me as Bob Dylan’s.

Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Elton John, Ray Charles… all legends, no doubt. But none whose music has enraptured me for nearly four decades. None whose albums I dissected as a nerdy high school sophomore, gobbling up every line of poetry, every harmonica note, every nasally vocal.

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Song of the Day #6,054: ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ – Timothee Chalamet and Monica Barbaro

My final musical selection from a 2024 film comes from a movie that has too many to count. I could have dedicated all ten of my posts from the past two weeks to A Complete Unknown, director James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic.

If I had to pick just one, I’d go with a performance of ‘The Times They Are A-Changin” at the Newport Folk Festival. In that scene, the crowd — hearing the song for the first time — instantly recognizes its impact and starts singing along by the second chorus.

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