What if a folk singer got beat up outside a Greenwich Village nightclub in 1961?
Six, seven, or, maybe, eight years ago, as Joel Coen
remembers it, that seemingly idle question about an unlucky singer in a
hypothetical encounter at what used to be a real club called Gerde’s Folk City started bothering Mr. Coen, who writes and directs off-center
movies with his brother, Ethan.
Next week some music industry insiders and perhaps a few potential
buyers will finally see, and hear, the resulting film at a private, pre-Grammys screening in Los Angeles.
It is called “Inside Llewyn Davis.” And it promises to be quintessential Coen brothers fare — but different. MORE HERE
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