Near the end of Inside Llewyn Davis, the titular hero (Oscar Isaac)—a struggling folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village—tears into a version of a song we’ve already heard a couple of times before, the ...

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Inside Llewyn Davis is a black comedy drama that takes us back to the 1960s, to the heart of the folk music scene in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The film is a poignant exploration of the life ...

If there's any one movie this coming Oscar season that's already, definitely, unabashedly worth anticipating, is is perhaps the Coen brothers' latest: Inside Llewyn Davis. The film, highly praised at ...

After a week of musicals and dramas, the AFI Fest ended with a bit of both when the Institute closed its annual celebration with a screening of Joel and Ethan Coen’s folk music-tinged drama, “Inside ...

When it was revealed two years ago that the Coen brothers’ next project would revolve around the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early ’60s, the first thought that came to mind was “who’s going to ...

The Coen brothers are hoping the music for December's Inside Llewyn Davis—the already highly praised story of a struggling folk singer—can live (and thrive) independently of the film.

The eponymous Llewyn (Drive's Oscar Isaac) is a man out of time, trying to make a living playing covers of folk songs in a transitional period where tastes were leaning towards singer-songwriters who ...

He meets a typically memorable Coens menagerie along the way. Their great lucky charm John Goodman is a lugubrious jazz junkie,Carey Mulligan the acid-tongued singer Davis has a disastrous fling with, ...

* The folkies, and some critics, who are whining that the Coens’ depiction of Greenwich Village and the denizens of the coffeehouses, “basket” bars and shabby apartments is far darker and more ...

The pair previously appeared in both 2011's 'Drive' and 2013's 'Inside Llewyn Davis' ...

Portrayed with consummate weary restraint by Oscar Isaac, Llewyn is not a prepossessing movie hero. Selfish and self-destructive, capable of being boorish and hurtful, if possessed of quick wit and ...