{"id":9170,"date":"2013-02-18T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T18:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9170"},"modified":"2013-02-18T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:08:58","slug":"inside-llewyn-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/inside-llewyn-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Llewyn Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Being-Bessman\"Joel Coen did an interview last week in\u00a0The New York Times<\/i>\u00a0about his and brother Ethan\u2019s much-anticipated\u2014but aren\u2019t all CoBros films \u201cmuch anticipated\u201d?–film\u00a0Inside Llewyn Davis<\/i>.<\/h3>\n

\"still-of-oscar-isaac\"Based very loosely on Dave Van Ronk\u2019s posthumous 2005 memoir\u00a0The Mayor of MacDougal Street<\/i>\u00a0(written with Elijah Wald),\u00a0Inside Llewyn Davis<\/i>\u00a0takes a darkly funny, typically ambiguous CoBros look at the pre-Dylan 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene, albeit one \u201cless innocent,\u201d as Wald told the Times, than the one populated by Van Ronk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe character is not at all Dave, but the music is,\u201d said Wald, who \u201cthoroughly enjoyed the movie.\u201d So did the likes of Loudon Wainwright III, Suzzy Roche and Rosanne Cash at a December screening in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cWent to screening of new Joel Coen film tonight,\u201d Cash tweeted. \u201cIt was so great I wish I could see it again for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"still-of-justin-timberlake-with-carey-mulligan\" T Bone Burnett is on board again producing the music for the movie, which has all the right folk flavors of that epochal scene. It\u2019s being shown this week at a pre-Grammy screening in L.A. for \u201cmusic industry insiders\u201d and probably some distributors, as atypically for the Coens, it was made with overseas funding (French company Studio Canal) and is without U.S. distribution.<\/p>\n

Ethan, meanwhile, notes that the woman playing the autoharp in the \u201cauthentic” folk act in the equally authentic folk club\u2014the one that lead character Llewyn heckles–is none other than Nancy Blake, singing the Carter Family\u2019s \u201cThe Storm Is On The Ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"inside-llewyn-davis\"Played by Oscar Isaac, Llewyin also sings the folk standard \u201cDink\u2019s Song\u201d (\u201cIf I Had Wings\u201d), with Marcus Mumford and backed by the Punch Brothers. Punch Brother Chris Thiele sings lead on \u201cThe Old Triangle,\u201d a song performed by a Clancy Brothers-type Irish quartet\u2014with cast member Justin Timberlake singing the bass part.<\/p>\n

Timberlake, along with Isaac and Adam Driver, also shine in a wonderfully witty ditty \u201cPlease Mr. Kennedy,\u201d which concerns the then timely desire to be shot up into space.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a heavily rewritten version of a Goldcoast Singers song,\u201d says Ethan, who like his brother, is a deeply knowledgeable music fan. He would have to be to know the Goldcoast Singers, the satiric early \u201860s folk duo best remembered for \u201cPlastic Jesus\u201d (about the dashboard ornament), whose original \u201cPlease Mr. Kennedy\u201d concerned the Draft.<\/p>\n

Many at the screening attended by Cash were left dumbstruck afterwards\u2014not an uncommon reaction among Coen Brothers film fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow good you are doesn\u2019t always matter,\u201d Joel told the Times. \u201cThat\u2019s what the movie is about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jim Bessman<\/p>\n

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Joel Coen did an interview last week in\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0about his and brother Ethan\u2019s much-anticipated\u2014but aren\u2019t all CoBros films \u201cmuch anticipated\u201d?–film\u00a0Inside Llewyn Davis. Based very loosely on Dave Van Ronk\u2019s posthumous 2005 memoir\u00a0The Mayor of MacDougal Street\u00a0(written with Elijah Wald),\u00a0Inside Llewyn Davis\u00a0takes a darkly funny, typically ambiguous CoBros look at the pre-Dylan 1960s Greenwich […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4976,3],"tags":[6118,6120,6117,6116,2875,675,6121,6119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9174,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}