Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Brothers, 2013)

[Firky]

This has been getting quite mixed responses from critics and audiences, as usual I try avoid too much about the film as not to spoil it.. but I think it looks quite good. About a folk singer-songwriter on his arse in 1960s NYC.

Justin Timberlake is supposed to be good



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2042568/

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inside_llewyn_davis_2013/

 

[Firky]

Coen

title

 

[SpookyFrank]

Another vote for 'hideous title' and also at Justin Timberlake.

 

[Firky]

Timberlake isn't a terrible actor, there's far worse. Sooner see him than Keanu Reaves or some other big name.

 

[editor]

With a name like that, Llewyn Davis should be a Taffy. Isn't it.

 

[Firky]

With a name like Llewyn Davis should be a Taffy. Isn't it.

With a name like that I think it is a nod to Dylan (Bob not Thomas... or maybe it is both )

 

[8den]

I've generally found the later Coen Bro movies very mixed. Burn After Reading and the The Man who wasn't there were amazingly flat. A Serious Man was so forgettable that I can barely remember a thing about it. The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty were both terrible. True Grit I liked but it didn't feel like a Coen Brothers movie, and that leaves No Country For Old Men which was brilliant.

I will watch this, but not expecting much.

 

[SpookyFrank]

With a name like that I think it is a nod to Dylan (Bob not Thomas... or maybe it is both )

Well Bob's stage name was borrowed from Thomas so I guess techincally it's both.

 

[Reno]

Another vote for 'hideous title' and also at Justin Timberlake.

Never seen Timberlake give a bad performance and sometimes he has been very good. Just because he used to be in a boy band doesn't mean he can't be a decent actor.

Don't give a toss about the title but reactions to early screenings seem indicate that this is one of the better Coen Brothers films.

 

[8den]

Never seen Timberlake give a bad performance.

Clearly you've never seen Southland Tales

 

[Reno]

Clearly you've never seen Southland Tales

It's a bad film with a terrible script where nobody stood a chance.

 

[killer b]

I've generally found the later Coen Bro movies very mixed. Burn After Reading and the The Man who wasn't there were amazingly flat. A Serious Man was so forgettable that I can barely remember a thing about it. The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty were both terrible. True Grit I liked but it didn't feel like a Coen Brothers movie, and that leaves No Country For Old Men which was brilliant.

I will watch this, but not expecting much.

a fair rundown, agree completely.

 

[Reno]

I've generally found the later Coen Bro movies very mixed. Burn After Reading and the The Man who wasn't there were amazingly flat. A Serious Man was so forgettable that I can barely remember a thing about it. The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty were both terrible. True Grit I liked but it didn't feel like a Coen Brothers movie, and that leaves No Country For Old Men which was brilliant.

I will watch this, but not expecting much.

I feel the same. Many of their film leave me indifferent but some are brilliant. I always look forward to a new film of theirs though.

 

[killer b]

actually, i remember enjoying ladykillers in places, but it just seemed so utterly pointless doing it at all.

 

[Reno]

...and some of their most acclaimed films I don't like at all (Saving Arizona), while one of their least liked ones is my favourite (The Hudsucker Proxy)

 

[killer b]

i love the hudsucker proxy. i know it wasn't much liked at the time, but it's become fairly popular since hasn't it? or is it just us?

 

[Reno]

i love the hudsucker proxy. i know it wasn't much liked at the time, but it's become fairly popular since hasn't it? or is it just us?

Not sure where it stands now but I never see it mentioned as being among their best films. This being their first major studio film, I remember reading mostly dismissive reviews at the time but I was blown away by it. I just watched it again a month ago and it's still one of my favourite films.

Of their comedies Hudsucker is the only one that actually makes me laugh. I even love Tim Robbins in it, who is one of my least favourite actors and who displays a fantastic ability for physical comedy here. Jennifer Jason Leigh gives a heroically out-there performance as all fast-talking screwball dames rolled into one ("Not a brain in his head!"). The Hula-hoop sequence with the little kid is a masterpiece in itself.

And most of all, I it love it as a fantasy film, the way it turns one NYC skyscraper into its own universe, with its own rules and logic, its own class hierarchy and complete with devils and angels fighting over human souls. As fantasy world-building goes, it's certainly more original than LOTR.

The film is full of dialogue that has become catch phrases between me and one of my best friends. Circles and crack-pot ideas often will be responded to with " You know, for kids !"

 

[8den]

i love the hudsucker proxy. i know it wasn't much liked at the time, but it's become fairly popular since hasn't it? or is it just us?

The Coen Bros now co direct and edit their own Movies, but credit their editor as Roderick Jaynes. He has is own bio, history, and background, (they claim he has the largest collection of nude watercolours of Margaret Thatcher in the world).

Hudsucker, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou and Millers Crossing are all fantastic films. Millers Crossing is one of my all time favourites. They leap from genre to genre and are incredibly literate in each genre in a way few directors/writers can. Few directors can make a perfect film noir, a perfect screwball comedy, a meditation on the art of writing, and a brilliant thriller in the space of a few years.

Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, And No Country for Old Men, are all excellent films (Blood Simple being a fantastic 1st film). Put simply theres enough great cinema in their background to always make me go and see a new Coen Brothers films, it's just after the last few years my expectations aren't always so high.

 

[8den]

It's a bad film with a terrible script where nobody stood a chance.

I know I kid.

I watched it recently while delirious with the winter vomiting bug. I think it helped the experience.

 

[8den]

Not sure where it stands now but I never see it mentioned as being among their best films. This being their first major studio film, I remember reading mostly dismissive reviews at the time but I was blown away by it. I just watched it again a month ago and it's still one of my favourite films.

Of their comedies Hudsucker is the only one that actually makes me laugh. I even love Tim Robbins in it, who is one of my least favourite actors and who displays a fantastic ability for physical comedy here. Jennifer Jason Leigh gives a heroically out-there performance as all fast-talking screwball dames rolled into one ("Not a brain in his head!"). The Hula-hoop sequence with the little kid is a masterpiece in itself.

And most of all, I it love it as a fantasy film, the way it turns one NYC skyscraper into its own universe, with its own rules and logic, its own class hierarchy and complete with devils and angels fighting over human souls. As fantasy world-building goes, it's certainly more original than LOTR.

The film is full of dialogue that has become catch phrases between me and one of my best friends. Circles and crack-pot ideas often will be responded to with " You know, for kids !"

"That Mr Mussburger is so nice I think I will give him double stitching anyway."



That and mixing up "fall" and "fail" is a another favourite of mine.

I love Hudsucker. Its a real underrated classic.

Back to Inside Llewyn Davis, one thing it has going for it is John Goodman. I don't think the Coen Brothers have ever made a bad film with Goodman in it. (I know some people think Raising Arizona is overrated, but it's still great, "My seed could not find purchase in her barren soil").

 

[Firky]

I've generally found the later Coen Bro movies very mixed. Burn After Reading and the The Man who wasn't there were amazingly flat. A Serious Man was so forgettable that I can barely remember a thing about it. The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty were both terrible. True Grit I liked but it didn't feel like a Coen Brothers movie, and that leaves No Country For Old Men which was brilliant.

I will watch this, but not expecting much.

Can't say I disagre really. Burn After Reading was like an HBO production, entertaining for the hour and a half you're watching it but you'll not return to it. I think to really 'get' A Serious Man you need to be both Jewish and American, it went over my head to be honest. I didn't really get what it was supposed to be about. True Grit had some very Coen stamps in it, and I thoroughly enjoyed it (but I enjoyed the book too)... which applies to NCFOM. Brilliant book by one of the best American authors there is and they really got quite close to the feel of the book.