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…
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The Shoals Of Herring (written by Ewan MacColl) – Luke Kelly and the Dubliners
Tagged with: Coen brothers, Ewan MacColl, Inside Llewyn Davis, Luke Kelly, the Dubliners, The Shoals Of Herring
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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
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500 Miles – (Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Stark Sands)
This is the third article here from the Inside Llewyn Davis movie. It was a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the 1960s folk revival. The simple repetitive lyrics reflect a traveller who is far from…
Tagged with: 500 miles, Carey Mulligan, Inside Llewyn Davis, Justin Timberlake, Stark Sands
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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…
Interesting Reactions to the ‘The Oscars Has Lost all Respectability’ Post
I forwarded my previous post ‘The Oscars has lost all ounce of respectability as a serious contest‘ to all the relevant movie discussion boards on Internet Movie Database. I was curious to know what the opinions of others were about…
Tagged with: awards, blue jasmine, imd, Inside Llewyn Davis, oscar nominations, oscars, wolf on wall street
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