2025 Oscars Best Picture Series - A Complete Unknown

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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It's Oscars season! The Cine-Files hosts John Rocha and Steve Morris continue their annual Oscars Best Picture Series with this conversation and review of A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. The James Mangold directed Best Picture nominee is based on the book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald and stars Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash. Steve and John discuss the film overall including the acting, direction, set design, soundtrack and cinematography. And discuss its Oscars chances in the Don't forget to vote in our First Annual Oscars show by signing up for our Patreon as a free or paying member. Everyone gets to vote and we will announce the winners on our live The Cine-Files Oscars show on March 1st!

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0:00.0	This is an ad by BetterHelp.
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0:47.9	Hello everyone and welcome to the second film in our Oscar series here, breaking down the 10 Best Picture Nominees for the 2025 Academy Awards.
0:51.7	I am John Roker, joined as always by my wonderful co-host Steve Morris.
0:55.8	I'm trying to decide should I use the acoustic guitar to accompany us, or should I go electric?
0:56.3	What's your feeling about this?
0:57.2	Maybe always go electric.
0:58.6	Screw them.
0:59.2	Always go electric.
1:01.3	Hey, man, go electric.
1:02.5	Anyway, so as you can probably guess, and probably because you read the title as well
1:06.3	of this episode, we are going to be talking about a complete unknown, this essentially this is a Bob Dylan
1:12.3	biopic focusing on his time, about five years of his time, five, six years of his time,
1:18.1	there in the early 1960s when he became a name and he led the folk, he was one of the leaders of
1:24.6	the folk movement, and then controversially went electric near the end of the 1960s to cause division and problems there within the folk music
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