"A Complete Unknown" director James Mangold and Edward Norton (as Pete Seeger) weigh in on what's fact and what's fiction in the Bob Dylan movie.

James Mangold's scrappy, semi-unflattering patchwork portrait serves Bob Dylan far better than any fawning hagiography could.

From musical festival violence to the pen pal bond between Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan, Mangold tells us what's real and what's not in "A Complete Unknown."

A Complete Unknown depicts Bob Dylan's (Timothée Chalamet) rise as a folk artist. He goes to New York to meet his hero, Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) and also meets Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) at the hospital.

Filmmaker James Mangold spoke with Salon about the musician's not-so-oblique songwriting and the women in his life

"How does it feel?" is one way by which to measure a movie. But if you've seen "A Complete Unknown," the Bob Dylan biopic that opened on Christmas Day, you may have left the theater singing to yourself (to the tune of "Like a Rolling Stone"): How much is reeeaaallll?

So when director James Mangold takes liberties with Bob Dylan’s story in the new engrossing, musically rich period-piece, “A Complete Unknown,” we feel compelled to speak up. We know that the Minnesota bard invented things in his own biography and memoir,

Bob Dylan wanted to include a fabricated scene in his upcoming biopic, disregarding the objections raised by director and co-writer James Mangold. Taking an active role in the making of "A Complete Unknown,