TO borrow the title of a Bob Dylan song, it was a case of “one more cup of coffee” for the film director. (Or perhaps not, as you’ll see.) When James Mangold got stuck into making his biopic A

The Academy Awards revealed their nominations Jan. 23, and to the surprise of many, James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic walked away with eight. Titled “A Complete Unknown,” the film follows Dylan’s meteoric rise in the 1960s folk scene,

The script of “A Complete Unknown” — written in part by Mangold and based roughly on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book “Dylan Goes Electric!” — walks a careful line. Bob Dylan films have been made before, and they have generally been good.