lifeascaty: The Coen brothers are good at what they do and pretty much unavoidable, so don’t try and ignore them. A Serious Man (2009) Barton Fink (1991) Blood Simple (1984) Burn After Reading (2008) Fargo (1996) Intolerable Cruelty* (2003) Miller’s Crossing (1990) No Country for Old Men (2007) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Raising…
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Oscar Isaac, who plays Llewyn, said the script was was loosely based on the experiences of Dave Van Ronk, whose book was about how electric and fantastic the folk music scene was in the Village in the early 60’s, then there were two paragraphs about this crappy trip to Chicago, then back to how fascinating…
Read moreOn being directed by the Coen Brothers: They’re very locked together about what they want. The directing is tone management. When Joel approaches you to make a correction, he tells you what you don’t have to do. Oscar Isaac at the Austin Inside Llewyn Davis screening.
Read moreThe script for Inside Llewyn Davis was so lean. It was weird. There were a lot of ellipses. There would be like, one line, and then some dots, then “act here” in parentheses. Oscar Isaac and T Bone Burnett at the Inside Llewyn Davis screening at Austin Film Festival Somehow…that’s exactly how I imagined it…
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