Prolific moviegoer Kathy Bell receives official ‘A Complete Unknown’ promo box following Record’s story

Evanston resident Kathy Bell is still going strong in her viewership of the Oscar-nominated film “A Complete Unknown.”

Since The Record first touched base with her in January, Bell estimates she has added at least 10 views to her resume and is pushing 40 viewings (many at The Wilmette Theatre) of the Bob Dylan biopic — though she’s no longer counting.

Just days after the release of the initial article about Bell’s zest for the film, the production company behind “A Complete Unknown,” Searchlight Pictures, reached out to The Record to find out how to send Bell the movie’s official promo box.

And Bell assented.

Bell playfully and candidly described the promo box’s contents to The Record: “(It contains a) lot of weird, unrelated things … but it was kind of cool to see how they put it together.”

So, what’s in the box?

• Two white T-shirts with the words “A Complete Unknown” on the front, one with orange lettering and one with blue — which Kathy said she thinks she’ll wear as night shirts;

• A clear purse with a black patch in the center, inscribed the words “A Complete Unknown,” and a shoulder strap seemingly designed to look like that of a guitar;

• A Moleskine-like notebook with Timothée-Chalamet-as-Dylan’s silhouette and the movie title on its cover; and

• A keychain with a guitar and silver piece of metal with “A Complete Unknown” embossed into it, the latter of which Bell said she hopes to remove from the keychain and find a separate use for or place for safekeeping.

Now, Bell has fallen into a Bob Dylan rabbithole, if you will, making movie-inspired observations about the cover of Dylan’s album “The Freewheelin’” and reading biographies on Dylan such as Elijah Wald’s “Dylan Goes Electric!,” the book that inspired the movie.

Of the whole experience, including her many viewings of the film and the promo box, Bell said it has all been “fun, interesting and weird,” but her journey isn’t over yet as she plans to continue seeing the movie in theaters for as long as it’s out.

“(I’ve been so) worried about missing out — that it would be gone before I could see it,” Bell said of her motivation to continue watching the film. “And then it was just, every time I see it, I see something different. … There was something else that was either a new observation or some aspect that maybe was a little bit deeper than I had noticed before.”

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