December 11, 2013
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
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
