"Inside Llewyn Davis" Tops New York Times List of Year's Best Movies

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The new Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis has landed on a number of lists of the Best Movies of 2013, including those of The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times, whose A.O. Scott calls this "a year of superabundant quality" in film and places Inside Llewyn Davis at No. 1. "The musical performances—especially from Oscar Isaac, who plays the title character—are hauntingly lovely," he writes. Slate says: "Inside Llewyn Davis is the best film ever made about the folk revival—and one of the best ever made about music, period." 

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Inside Llewyn Davis, the new film from Joel and Ethan Coen, has landed on a number of lists of the Best Movies of 2013, including those of the New York Times' film critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis.

Scott, who calls this "a year of superabundant quality" in film, has placed Inside Llewyn Davis in the No. 1 spot on his list. "The musical performances—especially from Oscar Isaac, who plays the title character—are hauntingly lovely," writes Scott, "and they anchor Joel and Ethan Coen’s exploration, at once mordant and melancholy, of the early-’60s New York folk scene. A ballad of bad luck and squandered talent that already seems, like the music it celebrates, to have been around forever." Read more at nytimes.com.

Indeed, Oscar Isaac has just been named Best Actor by the San Diego Film Critics Society.

The New Yorker's Richard Brody includes Inside Llewyn Davis on his list of the Best Movies of 2013 as well, describing this year's best films as "audacious inventions in vision. The specificity and originality of their moment-to-moment creation of images offers new ways for viewers to confront the notion of what 'narrative' might be. Their revitalization of storytelling as experience restores to the cinema its primordial mode of redefining consciousness."

Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers includes the film on his list of the Ten Best Movies of 2013, calling Oscar Isaac "exceptional."

The Huffington Post places Inside Llewyn Davis at No. 3 on its list of the 17 Best Movies of 2013, "the cream of an incredible crop of features," according to HuffPost Entertainment senior editor Christopher Rosen and HuffPost Entertainment senior writer Mike Ryan. "It's tempting to call Inside Llewyn Davis the Coen brothers' best film," writes Ryan, "but, you know, hyperbole and all: Good grief, this might just be the Coen brothers' best movie. (Oh, also, all of the music in the film is quite wonderful, too.)"

Slate's Jack Hamilton says "Inside Llewyn Davis is the best film ever made about the folk revival—and one of the best ever made about music, period." The film follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961, and in doing so, "breathes renewed and important life into the early 1960s folk revival," says Hamilton. Llewyn Davis is "impeccably played by Oscar Isaac," he writes. "And the film’s performance sequences are luxurious and fully real." You can read the complete article at slate.com.

To pick up a copy of the Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack, head to the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the complete album at checkout. Both are now 35% off the standard retail price (about 20% off the everyday low prices listed on the site) as part of the current Nonesuch Store anniversary sale.

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    "Inside Llewyn Davis" Tops New York Times List of Year's Best Movies
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    Inside Llewyn Davis, the new film from Joel and Ethan Coen, has landed on a number of lists of the Best Movies of 2013, including those of the New York Times' film critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis.

    Scott, who calls this "a year of superabundant quality" in film, has placed Inside Llewyn Davis in the No. 1 spot on his list. "The musical performances—especially from Oscar Isaac, who plays the title character—are hauntingly lovely," writes Scott, "and they anchor Joel and Ethan Coen’s exploration, at once mordant and melancholy, of the early-’60s New York folk scene. A ballad of bad luck and squandered talent that already seems, like the music it celebrates, to have been around forever." Read more at nytimes.com.

    Indeed, Oscar Isaac has just been named Best Actor by the San Diego Film Critics Society.

    The New Yorker's Richard Brody includes Inside Llewyn Davis on his list of the Best Movies of 2013 as well, describing this year's best films as "audacious inventions in vision. The specificity and originality of their moment-to-moment creation of images offers new ways for viewers to confront the notion of what 'narrative' might be. Their revitalization of storytelling as experience restores to the cinema its primordial mode of redefining consciousness."

    Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers includes the film on his list of the Ten Best Movies of 2013, calling Oscar Isaac "exceptional."

    The Huffington Post places Inside Llewyn Davis at No. 3 on its list of the 17 Best Movies of 2013, "the cream of an incredible crop of features," according to HuffPost Entertainment senior editor Christopher Rosen and HuffPost Entertainment senior writer Mike Ryan. "It's tempting to call Inside Llewyn Davis the Coen brothers' best film," writes Ryan, "but, you know, hyperbole and all: Good grief, this might just be the Coen brothers' best movie. (Oh, also, all of the music in the film is quite wonderful, too.)"

    Slate's Jack Hamilton says "Inside Llewyn Davis is the best film ever made about the folk revival—and one of the best ever made about music, period." The film follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961, and in doing so, "breathes renewed and important life into the early 1960s folk revival," says Hamilton. Llewyn Davis is "impeccably played by Oscar Isaac," he writes. "And the film’s performance sequences are luxurious and fully real." You can read the complete article at slate.com.

    To pick up a copy of the Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack, head to the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the complete album at checkout. Both are now 35% off the standard retail price (about 20% off the everyday low prices listed on the site) as part of the current Nonesuch Store anniversary sale.

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