This week, the hosts discuss the charming Bob Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown,' exploring fame's impact on artists and those around them. They also critique Dick Wolf's new cop show 'On Call,' while reflecting on modern policing narratives. A heartfelt tribute to the surreal filmmaker David Lynch highlights his unique storytelling and cultural legacy. Listeners are invited to reminisce about memorable cultural experiences, with personal endorsements ranging from a documentary on a ballerina to engaging mystery novels.
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Dylan's Carnival Tale
Timothee Chalamet, as Bob Dylan, fabricates a story about learning music from carnival cowboys.
This playful exchange with Joan Baez reveals Dylan's tendency to create myths.
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Fame and Its Adjacent
A Complete Unknown explores Dylan's impact on others, rather than his interiority. The film focuses on how those around him perceive his genius and its implications for their own lives.
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Dylan's Genius
The film suggests Dylan's genius stems from an imaginative immensity, not his personality. Trying to find the source within him is a category error.
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In 'Dylan Goes Electric!', Elijah Wald delves into the cultural, political, and historical context of Bob Dylan's seminal performance at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25, 1965. The book provides new insights into Dylan’s artistic evolution, his affinity to blues, his complex relationship with the folk establishment and his mentor Pete Seeger, and how he reshaped popular music. Wald breaks down the myth surrounding this event, focusing on the social, cultural, and political changes of the 1960s and how Dylan's decision marked a significant shift from folk to rock music, making it a defining moment of the era.
The fatal shore
a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia 1787-1868
Robert Hughes
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
The Thursday Murder Club follows four friends—Joyce, Elizabeth, Ibrahim, and Ron—living in the Coopers Chase retirement village. They meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes. When a local developer, Ian Ventham, is found dead, the club becomes involved in their first live case. As more bodies are discovered, the group works with the police, particularly PC Donna de Freitas and DCI Chris Hudson, to solve the murders. The novel blends humor, wit, and suspense, highlighting the unique skills and backgrounds of the elderly sleuths, including Joyce's nursing experience, Elizabeth's mysterious past, Ibrahim's psychiatric expertise, and Ron's trade union leadership. The story is told through a mix of Joyce's diary entries and third-person narratives, reflecting Osman's television production style[2][3][5].
On this week’s show, the hosts dive into A Complete Unknown, director James Mangold’s surprisingly charming Bob Dylan biopic that’s all about fame and what it looks like to be adjacent to it. Then, the three explore Dick Wolf’s latest project: On Call, a half-hour cop procedural set in Long Beach, California that’s streaming on Prime Video. Finally, the trio remembers David Lynch, the iconic, singular filmmaker who passed away last week at the age of 78.
In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel goes electric themselves and responds to a listener question from Rob: “Would you reminisce about the most electric experience you’ve had consuming a piece of culture with other people?”
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