Out to own today:
Inside Llewyn Davis
“No, I didn’t meet Private Presley,” Troy Nelson (Stark Sands) to Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac)
An unlikeable lead never evolving or learning lessons, how unbelievably refreshing in a sea of stale character arcs. The last scene is a brilliant choice. Might INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS be the most accomplished cinematic work to capture the Beat Generation of authors, poets and singers? FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAST VEGAS, HOWL, THE RUM DIARY, ON THE ROAD and KILL YOUR DARLINGS have varying degrees of successes, though felt lacking. It has taken filmmaking titans Joel and Ethan Coen to fashion a beguilingly abrasive take. Cleverly side-stepping the minefield of adapting groundbreaking literature, the directing siblings have made an intimate treatise on blinkered perfectionism. [To read more, click here.]
An unlikeable lead never evolving or learning lessons, how unbelievably refreshing in a sea of stale character arcs. The last scene is a brilliant choice. Might INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS be the most accomplished cinematic work to capture the Beat Generation of authors, poets and singers? FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAST VEGAS, HOWL, THE RUM DIARY, ON THE ROAD and KILL YOUR DARLINGS have varying degrees of successes, though felt lacking. It has taken filmmaking titans Joel and Ethan Coen to fashion a beguilingly abrasive take. Cleverly side-stepping the minefield of adapting groundbreaking literature, the directing siblings have made an intimate treatise on blinkered perfectionism. [To read more, click here.]
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