Coens Evoke NY Folk Scene; Hanks Battles Pirates: Movies
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The Coen Brothers’ remarkable “Inside Llewyn Davis” is a conjuring act of near-magical conviction, an ode to the artistic spirit that’s as uncompromising as the troubled genius it chronicles.
Loosely based on folksinger Dave Van Ronk’s 2005 memoir, this gem summons an era on the precipice: the pre-Bob Dylan Greenwich Village scene of the early 1960s.