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 ...

“Inside Llewyn Davis” may not have been the most well-received Coen Brothers film in the Academy’s eyes, but it had everything fans and critics of their work love most: a great soundtrack, a series of ...

The Coen Brothers have no shame in gut-punching audiences with sharp dismantling of characters or rude short-changing of narrative expectations, in ways that feel like a cinematic middle finger. While ...

Now comes Inside Llewyn Davis. It's a beautifully crafted tale of woe set in the early '60s folkie world of Greenwich Village, pre-Bob Dylan. Much of the music — again the soundtrack is produced by T ...

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 ...

“If it’s never new and it doesn’t get old,” the singer tells his audience, “it’s a folk song.” Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) has just finished performing the traditional blues number “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me ...

Welcome back to another issue of Your Movie Mage, where I discuss underrated movies across genres. Last week, we discussed the highly underrated film adaptation of the popular book, “Where the Wild ...

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.

Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) in the chilly winter of 1961. Montrealers can relate. Everything about Inside Llewyn Davis is first-rate – script, acting, music, cinematography. When it was over and the ...

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 ...

This is not a film review. Rather, it is a journey of exploration, if you will – an attempt to write my way to understanding why I am such a lone voice on the Coen Brothers’ new film, Inside Llewyn ...