. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
13 October 1947, USA
27 February 1975, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
9 December 1935, USA
20 March 1981, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
31 January 1981, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
8 February 1955, Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
24 October 1939, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
28 August 1962, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
23 November 1970, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
31 January 1987, Anaheim, California, USA
9 March 1979, Guatemala
August 13, 2016
This is the Coens in bittersweet mode, a little oblique, a little downbeat, and a little offbeat.
December 23, 2013
The broad, black humor of the Coens' early features has ripened over the years into a sadder, more philosophical brand of comedy (A Serious Man) that puts them in a class with Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch (yeah, you heard me).
December 20, 2013
The Coen brothers have crafted another unique period piece.
December 31, 2015
Isaac's folk-singing Llewyn Davis may be an arrogant loser and the butt of a cosmic joke but he's something more than a cartoon. So is the movie ...
December 20, 2013
Celebrating and mourning a bygone moment, "Inside Llewyn Davis" is a tuneful wake intended to arouse us from our slumber to desires worth remembering.
April 18, 2016
The brothers Coen and their cast reward us with unexpected riches from a place now long gone, faded like a minor chord on a battered guitar.
May 10, 2016
If failure and folly are this noble and touching, we're on Davis' side, even as the last chord is struck and the song is sung.
June 19, 2016
They beautifully and convincingly recreate the streets and coffee shops where he dwells, and seem intoxicated with the look and feel of those surroundings.
December 24, 2013
This is one of the strangest yet most satisfying movie experiences of the year, one of those films in which you can't really appreciate what you've seen until it's over. You just have to trust that the trip is worth the trouble. And it is.
February 28, 2017
It's a bleak tale of a less-than-loveable loser. But the combined effect of songs, lead performance and period detail make it one of the best, most heartfelt Coen movies yet.
