(MORE: Richard Corliss reviews Inside Llewyn Davis) In one category are the songs that are mostly convincing, in the sense that they sound like real Kennedy-era ramblers. Particularly effective ...

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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 ...

Davis is undoubtedly a powerful performer but, seeing as he’s a folk musician, he isn’t performing his own songs, and nobody seems interested in monetizing the folk scene. Through other folk musicians ...

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 ...

Llewyn has made one album as part of the folk duo Timlin & Davis, before Timlin killed himself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge, and then a solo LP that has sold in the dozens of copies.

Folk singers like Llewyn “were the DJs of the time,” notes Isaac. “They would find all these old songs and they would present them to you.” Guided by 11-time Grammy–winning producer T ...

The Coen brothers' blackly comic drama Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of struggling folk musician Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) in 1960s New York. Digital Spy sat down with Isaac and Carey ...

It's winter 1961, and Llewyn Davis doesn’t have a coat. He sleeps on couches he isn’t wanted on, his self-titled folk album isn’t selling and an adorable cat he is supposed to take care of ...

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I expected to walk out of the Coen Brothers’“Inside Llewyn Davis” refreshed and satisfied after yet another great film from the Oscar-winning pair. Instead, I was surprised and confused that ...

Inside Llewyn Davis doesn’t have a plot in the conventional sense. Ending at a slightly altered version of where it began, the film follows its protagonist through a few ordinary but revealing days.