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Inside Llewyn Davis on the Top of My Holiday Movie List

Alison Rosa/CBS FIlms
Alison Rosa/CBS FIlms

Inside Llweyn Davis, the new film by the Coen Brothers has been on the top of my must see movie list for a few weeks now. The radio station I listen to, WUMB, has been playing quite a few cuts from the soundtrack and the music has definitely sparked my interest in the film.

Apparently A.O. Scott of the NY Times feels Inside Llewyn Davis is also a must see movie for 2013:

The musical performances — especially from Oscar Isaac, who plays the title character — are hauntingly lovely, and they anchor Joel and Ethan Coen’s exploration, at once mordant and melancholy, of the early-’60s New York folk scene. A ballad of bad luck and squandered talent that already seems, like the music it celebrates, to have been around forever.

Inside Llewyn Davis is based on the Greenwich Village Folk scene of 1961 and loosely derived from Dave Van Ronk’s memiour: The Mayor of MacDougal Street. Read more about the film here.

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