A Complete Unknown (2024)
Directed by James Mangold
Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan hitchhikes to New York to meet his dying hero Woody Guthrie in a New Jersey hospital, becomes a star of the Greenwich Village folk scene and shocks the Newport Folk Festival by going electric.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Arrival≈ 00:01:00New York City, New YorkStated on screen
Dylan arrives in New York in 1961 with a guitar, looking for Woody Guthrie.
- 2Woody Guthrie's bedside≈ 00:04:00Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, New JerseyStated on screen
He finds Guthrie in a New Jersey hospital with Pete Seeger and sings him a song.
- 3Folk clubs and Sylvie's apartment≈ 00:15:00Greenwich Village, New YorkStated on screen
Dylan wows the Village clubs, moves in with Sylvie Russo and records his first albums.
- 4Newport Folk Festival 1964≈ 01:10:00Newport, Rhode IslandStated on screen
- 5Newport Folk Festival 1965≈ 01:45:00Newport, Rhode IslandStated on screen
- 6Last visit to Woody≈ 02:10:00Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, New JerseyInferred
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 598 km
- Places
- 4
- Countries
- 1
- Stops
- 6
- Not shown: 282 km
- Motorcycle: 274 km
- Car: 41 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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