2013’s Inside Llewyn Davis was a major role for star Oscar Isaac. It turns out it could have instead been a major role for Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, as he recounted on Tig Notaro, Mae Martin, and ...

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 ...

Llewyn Davis is a jerk. One of many folk musicians working the cafes and basement bars of Greenwich Village in 1961, Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) is undoubtedly a talented artist. But he’s also a walking ...

This includes spoilers for the film Inside Llewyn Davis, a movie that its co-writer and director Joel Coen once said “doesn’t really have a plot” so don’t worry too much if you haven’t seen it. “If it ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is never more at home than when he’s onstage singing a folk song, leaning into his guitar and seducing ...

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 ...

“Inside Llewyn Davis” is an extraordinary portrait of a fictional folk singer in Greenwich Village of the ’60s whose hopeless problem is this: He’s not Bob Dylan, nor could he ever be. It’s the era of ...

“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 ...

Joel and Ethan Coen explored the folk music scene of the early 1960s, just before Bob Dylan became a star, in their 2013 film, Inside Llewyn Davis. The film follows the titular Llewyn Davis, played by ...

This includes spoilers for the film Inside Llewyn Davis, a movie that its co-writer and director Joel Coen once said “doesn’t ...