The brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have long stood among my favourite filmmakers, and their work has often featured here at Friday’s Finest. A Serious Man (2009) seems one of their lesser-known and most underrated films, yet I think it…
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The Shoals Of Herring (written by Ewan MacColl) – Luke Kelly and the Dubliners
Thanks to the Coen Brothers for reviving the folk ballad The Shoals of Herring in their film Inside Llewyn Davis. Oscar Isaac, who plays the down-on-his-luck protagonist Llewyn Davis, delivers a tender rendition of the song to his father in…
Tagged with: Coen brothers, Ewan MacColl, Inside Llewyn Davis, Luke Kelly, the Dubliners, The Shoals Of Herring
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Please Mr. Kennedy (ft. Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver) 2013 – From Inside Llewyn Davis
Please Mr. Kennedy is the fourth song to be presented here from the Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack. In the scene below, Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is roped into performing on a recording session with fellow folksingers played by Justin Timberlake and Adam Driver.…
Tagged with: Adam Driver, Coen brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis, Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac, T Bone Burnett
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) – Joel and Ethan Coen (Friday’s Finest)
Coen brothers’ movies have featured a lot here and today’s movie is another impressive film from their extensive canon. The Man Who Wasn’t There is an intriguing film noir set in 1949 and tells the story of Ed Crane, a…
Burn After Reading (2008) – Ethan & Joel Coen (Friday’s Finest)
Burn After Reading in much in the same vain as last week’s showcased film The Men Who Stare At Goats is a publicly panned and maligned film. Also both films have a star studded cast who venture into unfamiliar territory…
Bridge of Spies (2015) – Steven Spielberg
Bridge of Spies is a highly engaging political-adventure based on a true story about a highly covert Spy swap deal between the CIA and KGB during the cold war. Lawyer James Donovan played by Tom Hanks is tasked to provide…
Tagged with: Bridge of Spies, Coen brothers, Cold War, Tom hanks. Steven Spielberg
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Inside Llewyn Davis – The Coen Brothers
Inside Llewyn Davis is about a folk singer trying, but not very successfully to make it ‘big’ in the early 1960s Greenwich Village. Llewyn is a lost man trapped inside a beastly world where its unremittingly bad karma pounds down…
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