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 ...

Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have concocted a droll, darkly sardonic comedy, pivoting on the sweet desperation of one week in the life of a folksinger in New York's Greenwich Village in 1961. Ever ...

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 ...

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.

Three types of artists hinge on authenticity: punk bands, folk singers, and rappers. Actors, like Oscar Isaac, are phonies by definition. But the star of the Joel and Ethan Coen’s new film, Inside ...

After a rough start with films like Extraordinary Measures, Beastly and The Back-Up Plan, CBS Films are finally starting to turn things around. After last year’s Seven Psychopaths and The Woman in ...

He meets a typically memorable Coens menagerie along the way. Their great lucky charm John Goodman is a lugubrious jazz junkie,Carey Mulligan the acid-tongued singer Davis has a disastrous fling with, ...

Carey Mulligan admits that when the prospect of working with Coen brothers first came her way, she was nervous that the acclaimed filmmaker siblings might turn out to be “scary geniuses. “I had no ...

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 ...