After a successful Festive Screening of Perfect Days in December our next ‘First Thursday’ Film Club meet up is on February 6th after the 5:00pm screening of A Complete Unknown. Come along and watch the film with us, or see it anytime from the 31st January, and then join us in the bar around 7.45pm on the 6th to discuss it.
“Even a skeptic can be swept away by its heady mix of laidback assessment and genuine awe.” – Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
“The wonder of A Complete Unknown isn’t just that it manages to be good anyway but that it finds an angle on Dylan as unexpectedly electric as that amplified Newport set.” – Alison Willmore, New York Magazine/Vulture
Friends of Hyde Park Picture House 
I found the film interesting and enjoyed the selection of songs. However, I was not convinced by the portrait of Bob Dylan, though the cast are generally good. The film suggests a rather apolitical character. Whist Dylan was not an activist in the way that Pete Seeger was, if you look at his output of songs/poems in the period he was definitely committed, but rather as an artist. Seeger is well played but the script’s version of Woody Guthrie is odd. And I thought the two women, especially Joan Baez’s character, were undeveloped.
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