Bob Dylan: Last News

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Showbiz has always made for strange bedfellows. Still, it’s hard to fathom any single personality linking talents as diverse as Pet Shop Boys, Bob Dylan, Fishbone, John Tesh, Diana Ross, Dusty Springfield, Toto, James Brown, TLC, Lulu, Stephen Stills, Tanya Tucker, Bette Midler, Gladys Knight, Scott Baio and Richard Simmons.

Veteran filmmaker Todd Haynes will head the competition jury at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Todd Haynes will preside over the jury of the upcoming 75th Berlin International Film Festival. It will mark the first edition headed by Tricia Tuttle, the former head of the BFI London Film Festival, The American director, screenwriter and producer has a long-established close rapport with the Berlinale given that his feature film debut “Poison” received the fest’s Teddy Award, the queer film prize at the event, in 1991, after winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

“The Zane Lowe Show” on Monday while promoting his movie about Dylan’s life that comes out on Christmas.The “Dune” star added that Dylan, 83, has “sort of retreated from the public eye.”“Never met him. Would love to!” Chalamet said. James Mangold’s movie follows Dylan’s early years in New York City and his rise to fame in the 1960s.

Timothée Chalamet is opening up about his history with body shaming in the movie industry.

99 Grammy nominations and acclaim as one of the most influential artists in music history, pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course at Yale University next year.Titled “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music,” the one-credit class will focus on the period from her 2013 self-titled album through this year’s genre-defying “Cowboy Carter” and how the world-famous singer, songwriter and entrepreneur has generated awareness and engagement in social and political ideologies.Yale University’s African American Studies Professor Daphne Brooks intends to use the performer’s wide-ranging repertoire, including footage of her live performances, as a “portal” for students to learn about Black intellectuals, from Frederick Douglass to Toni Morrison.“We’re going to be taking seriously the ways in which the critical work, the intellectual work of some of our greatest thinkers in American culture resonates with Beyoncé’s music and thinking about the ways in which we can apply their philosophies to her work” and how it has sometimes been at odds with the “Black radical intellectual tradition,” Brooks said.Beyoncé, whose full name is Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, is not the first performer to be the subject of a college-level course.

Legendary musician Bob Dylan has UK fans talking as he wraps up his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour with final shows in the country. The 83-year-old icon, who has been touring since 2021, is set to conclude at the iconic Royal Albert Hall on Thursday, November 14.

A surprise appearance by a legendary actor left a theatre audience in awe as he took to the stage to perform an impromptu song. Bill Murray, 74, known for his roles in Groundhog Day and Rushmore, is infamous for his spontaneous appearances at social events with little or no prior notice.

Forrest Gump sequel featuring Timotheé Chalamet has gone viral. Watch below.The original film was released in 1994 and starred Tom Hanks in the lead role alongside Robin Wright in the Robert Zemeckis hit movie.Although a sequel was never made, a fan-made AI trailer imagines Chalamet taking the role of Forrest Gump Jr.The clip, which you can view below, shows Chalamet struggling to find his place in the world, similar to his father in the original.

While reflecting on his career, Timothée Chalamet said there were certain doors that were closed to him in the industry based on his looks.

Timotheé Chalamet has said he learned to play 30 Bob Dylan songs in preparation for the upcoming biopic in which he plays the legendary folk musician.The Dune star is set to play the music icon in upcoming film A Complete Unknown, which will chart Dylan’s controversial switch from acoustic to electric guitar in the mid-’60s. The film will be released in US cinemas on December 25, with a UK release to follow on January 17.Last month, the first full trailer for the film was released, including a scene from Dylan’s infamous appearance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where he was booed for veering away from folk and into a new rock-influenced direction.Now, in a new interview with The Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music 1, Chalamet has opened up about the work he’s done to prepare for playing the iconic singer, including learning to play 30 Dylan songs.He told Lowe: “For the movie, I had to learn 13, let’s say, or something, but in total, I could probably play 30.

Ethan Shanfeld Timothée Chalamet said he was advised to gain weight when he was coming up as a young actor auditioning for big movies. “If I auditioned for ‘The Maze Runner’ or ‘Divergent,’ things of that variety that were popping when I was coming up, the feedback was always, ‘Oh, you don’t have the right body,'” Chalamet said in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.

Bruce Springsteen has rejected reports from earlier this year that he is now a billionaire, saying, “I wish I was”.In July, an estimate by Forbes claimed that the Boss was worth $1.1billion (£850million), after a six-decade career that has seen him release 21 studio albums and a total of over 140 million records.His net worth received a significant bump in 2021 when he sold his masters and publishing rights to Sony Music in a combined deal worth around $500million (£387million). The deal gives the company ownership of his entire back catalogue, and follows similar deals struck by the likes of Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks and Neil Young.However, in a new interview in The Telegraph, Springsteen has disputed the figure, stating, “I’m not a billionaire.

Bob Dylan classic ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’ for the Hugh Grant horror film Heretic.The choose-your-own-adventure film, which is out in theatres everywhere tomorrow (November 8), stars Grant as Mr. Reed, a mysterious and untrustworthy man who answers the door to two young female Mormon missionaries who want to convert him to the church.The film features Grant singing 90s classic, Radiohead’s ‘Creep’, and now it has been revealed that Thatcher also casts her own take on a seminal Bob Dylan song.

The Old Man.Based on the novel by Thomas Perry, the series follows former CIA operative Dan Chase (Bridges) who has been in hiding for 30 years following the Soviet-Afghan War. Meanwhile, FBI director Harold Harper (Lithgow), who has a history with Chase, is asked to track him down.Other cast members in the series include E.J.

Elvis Costello has once again spoken out about his decision not to sue Olivia Rodrigo after fans suggested there were similarities between their songs.The ‘Oliver’s Army’ singer first came to Rodrigo’s defence in 2021, after people noticed a similarity between the guitar riff on ‘Brutal’ and that of Costello’s ‘Pump It Up’. Responding to claims the track was “a direct lift from Elvis Costello”, the artist said, “this is fine by me”.“It’s how rock and roll works.

Stevie Nicks is a relatively new voter.

Stevie Nicks has urged musicians to use their platforms as a way to encourage people to go and vote.The rock icon and former Fleetwood Mac member appeared as a guest on MSNBC’s talk show Morning Joe and opened up to Mika Brzezinski about why she thinks her musical colleagues should be encouraging more people to vote.After being asked by Brzezinski “What can others, female rockers, singers, icons, are there any who you can name that can do more at this moment, isn’t this the moment when we should be leaving it all on the stage?,” Nicks responded: “Well you know, if you really think about it, no matter who really wins, it’s not over. Right, I mean the government, whatever, we have to figure out a way to bring back Roe v.

In maybe the best Saturday Night Live promo of the season so far, John Mulaney is joined by a surprise guest who wants to contribute some rather intricate, obscure and minutia-filled bits of writing for the new spot.

Timothée Chalamet has shared a cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’, ahead of the release of biopic A Complete Unknown.The Dune star is set to play the music legend in the upcoming film, which will chart Dylan’s controversial switch from acoustic to electric guitar in the mid-’60s. The film will be released in US cinemas on December 25, with a UK release to follow on January 17.Now, Chalamet has given a preview of the film by dropping his version of one of Dylan’s most iconic tracks, ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’, originally released on the 1965 album ‘Bringing It All Back Home’.Chalamet shows off an impressive Dylan impression on the song, and the accompanying video shows the actor replicating Dylan’s famous promo in which he tosses away cue cards with lyrics from the song.

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the Christmas Day release of Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, in which she’s said to give a standout performance as folk singer and activist Joan Baez, Monica Barbaro has found her next project in Crime 101, Bart Layton’s adaptation of the Don Winslow novella for Amazon MGM Studios.