Joel and Ethan Coen will follow-up Inside Llewyn Davis with Hollywood satire Hail Caesar, Deadline reports. The directorial duo will return to their Barton Fink/Hudsucker Proxy roots, it seems, with Hail Caesar, a “comical yarn” that centers on a famed 1950s muckraker who spies on Hollywood celebs for a gossip magazine. Now, just because Deadline […]
Continue readingRocky road – Inside Llewyn Davis review
By Simon Miraudo January 15, 2014 My first viewing of Inside Llewyn Davis occurred just before I embarked on a four-week holiday, and I was glad to have the break between the screening and my inevitable writing of the review. Unravelling the intricacies of the Coen brothers‘ latest torturous morality tale is not anyone’s sensible […]
Continue reading’12 Years A Slave’ and ‘American Hustle’ lead the Golden Globe nominees
12 Years A Slave and American Hustle will go into the 71st Golden Globe Awards as the hot favourites to beat in their respective categories of Drama and Comedy. Olivia Wilde, Aziz Ansari, and Zoe Saldana announced the nominees in Los Angeles ahead of the upcoming 2014 broadcast, set to be hosted by Tina Fey […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Inside Llewyn Davis
The new trailer for Inside Llewyn Davis is moody, bleak, and hints at the dark humour we’ve come to expect from Joel and Ethan Coen’s films. Set in 1961 in Greenwich Village, New York City, Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is not having a good week. He’s a struggling folk singer who’s all about the music […]
Continue readingControversial French drama, Blue is the Warmest Colour, collects Palme d’Or at Cannes
Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Colour has collected the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, as selected by a jury led by Steven Spielberg and comprised of such industry luminaries as Ang Lee, Christoph Waltz, Nicole Kidman, Christian Mungiu, and Lynn Ramsay. The sexually explicit French drama set tongues wagging on the Croisette […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Inside Llewyn Davis
Thank folk for that! The trailer for the Coen brothers’ latest picture, Inside Llewyn Davis, has finally arrived. Loosely based on the life of Dave Van Ronk, it stars Oscar Isaac as Llewyn Davis, a folk singer trying to make it in Greenwich Village during the 1960s. Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, F. Murray Abraham, Garrett […]
Continue readingJohn Goodman reteaming with Coen brothers for Inside Llewyn Davis
Frequent Coen brothers’ collaborator John Goodman is set to join their upcoming folk music flick Inside Llewyn Davis. Although Goodman has offered up memorable performances in plenty of the Coens previous films (Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski), he hasn’t worked with the duo since 2000’s O Brother, Where Art Thou? Showbiz 411 reports […]
Continue readingJustin Timberlake collaborating with Coen bros?
Justin Timberlake has been offered a role in Joel and Ethan Coen’s upcoming folk music flick Inside Llewyn Davis, Variety reports. Although little is known about the role, he is said to be the husband of Carey Mulligan’s character Jean. Set in the folk music scene in 1960s’ Greenwich Village, the film will be loosely based […]
Continue readingCarey Mulligan joins Coen brothers’ and Spike Jonze’s new films
Everyone’s favourite ingénue Carey Mulligan has just scored two major roles. She is set to star alongside Oscar Isaac in the Coen brothers’ newie Inside Llewyn Davis, and will also appear in Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman’s upcoming – and untitled – collaboration, Variety reports. The new Joel and Ethan Coen film centres on the folk music […]
Continue readingOscar Isaac cast in Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis
Up-and-coming actor Oscar Isaac has landed the lead role in the upcoming Coen brothers’ film, Inside Llewyn Davis, Deadline reports. Currently without US domestic distribution, the new Joel and Ethan Coen film centres on the folk music scene in 1960s’ Greenwich Village. Written by the brothers, and co-produced by Scott Rudin (No Country For Old […]
Continue readingThe Coen brothers’ new film has a title
Back in June it was revealed that Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen would follow up their True Grit remake with a film focusing on the Greenwich village folk scene of the 1960s, based on guitarist Dave van Ronk’s memoir The Mayor of MacDougal Street. Variety now has the title: Inside Llewyn Davis. The film concerns the […]
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