Ace Film Crew Shoots 1960s West Village Car Scenes on Downtown Jersey City Streets for Dylan Biopic

Production will continue into this weekend in Downtown JC for the highly anticipated film about folk icon Bob Dylan's early years. Titled A Complete Unknown -- from lyrics to Dylan's 1965 song "Like a Rolling Stone" -- the biopic is directed and co-produced by James Mangold (Ford v Ferrari), and co-written by Mangold and Jay Cocks.
Location: "MacDougal Street" (The Van Vorst district of Downtown Jersey City stands in for the West Village of the 1960s, with an amazing #HollywoodAtJerseyAvenue makeover by production set designers and artists.)
Date: 19 April, 2024
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[@OUTNABOUTwithYoursTrulyLIZZOC]

Super cool, I love seeing film location and all the props! I love the NYC vintage cars and taxi cabs! Great video!

[@gabrielapaulinho1luv]

Heyyya, Liz. Thank you very much!😊 Coming from a video artist who lives in THE city for filming movies and television shows -- including scenes that stand in for NYC and Chicago -- your compliment resonates with me.🤘🏽🤸🏾‍♀️💃🏾🧘🏽 That hardworking crew most likely is SO used to putting up with curious onlookers.🤭
Some of us (🙋🏽‍♀️) were practically drooling watching those big, fancy cars zooming past, backing up, passing by ... repeatedly. Sooooo many takes ... "Cut!!!" "Action!!!" "Roll 'em!!!"😆 Quite fascinating! And, no, none of us had a CHANCE of being selected as an extra.😂 On one of the production days this week, I wore a 1960s- inspired outfit and lingered close to the perimeter where spectators were being kept at bay by a film crew member dressed in all-black and resembling a rock star. To be so close to where Timothée Chalamet was *said* to be filming a scene in "Caffe Borgia"🤩 (that's Wonder Bagels beneath the fabulous set design), even I was getting the vapors like all of the much younger ladies. 🤣
But back to those cool cars ... I'll miss seeing them parked (and safely) each morning and evening; all of the film equipment (except the myriad wires!😵‍💫); the faux-subway to Brooklyn and the artificial street lamps and phone booths; and the very real catering truck filled with yummies.😋 (As you say on your wonderful OUT N ABOUT With Yours Truly LIZZO C channel and food channel: "take your bite" and "nom-nom-nommm!").
Soon all of the businesses will return to normal -- which means I'll go back to peeping at dudes getting handsome haircuts and beard grooming at the barbershop (presently "Village Artists"), and I'll be able to scarf down some delish chicken poutine at the German gastropub WÜRSTBAR (presently, well, a bar-bar). "MacDougal Street" (off "Bleecker Street") will transform back to Jersey Avenue. MacDougal and Bleecker streets still exist in the West Village, of course. And Cafe Wha? (115 MacDougal St.) and Caffé Reggio (119 MacDougal St.) -- two of Bob Dylan's former hangouts -- are still operating. Jimi Hendrix also famously played at Cafe Wha?☮️ At Caffé Reggio -- where the cappuccino was first introduced to America in 1927 by Domenico Parisi -- Jack Kerouac as well as Dylan also was a patron; and The Godfather II, Shaft and Serpico all had scenes filmed there. BUT: Greenwich Village lost so much of its charm by the 1990s.😥 Ahhh, tree-lined Jersey Avenue ... I'll have time to catch the last sight of its cherry blossoms.
I'm touched that you enjoyed this BTS video and appreciate your commenting!😊🫶🏼✌🏽And, as you say to us endearing fans: Cheers!🥂

[@davejefferynf]

Very nice coverage, my friend 👍👍

[@gabrielapaulinho1luv]

Thanks for your comment, Dave, and for watching my video! Cheers!😀🫶🏼

[@WeGoPlacesTours]

It’s interesting to watch and see how much is involved with filming. Nice old cars, too! Nicely done. 👍😊🇨🇦

[@gabrielapaulinho1luv]

Thanks, Christine, and I'm glad you enjoyed it.😀 Yeah, film crews work so hard! By the time we see the finished film -- phew! A crew member told me off screen that they'd all be back at it at 6 a.m. today. ... Many movies and TV shows have filmed exterior shots in my 'hood because it's a historic part of town and filming here is less expensive than on that isle just across the Hudson River: Manhattan.
I appreciate your watching this BTS video and commenting on it. I'll see ya over on your channel this weekend.🙋🏽‍♀️🫶🏼☮️

[@luislaplume8261]

Greenwich Village never had telephone poles on the sidewalks. I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s. Greenwich Village today is nor what it used to be from 1900 til 1970. Today it looks like a different world. 😢

[@gabrielapaulinho1luv]

Wow! I never knew about zero telephone poles on sidewalks in Greenwich Village. But I'll say this, I feel grateful to have enjoyed great times as a youngster in the Village of the late 1970s and early 1980s. So to me, too, present day Greenwich Village is unrecognizable as "the Village" of yore. Oh how I wish a time machine were possible for me to walk through the Village during your Mad Men era! I do understand that sad face.😢
I find myself hungering for moving images of earlier decades in the Village. Thank goodness for cinema.😊 And a huge thanks for commenting.🤗