Inside Llewyn Davis

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Timing: 1:44 (104 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2013-10-18

Country

France, United Kingdom

Production

StudioCanal, Anton Capital Entertainment

Genre

Drama, Music

Budget

$11 000 000

Revenue

$32 935 319

Website

https://www.studiocanal.com/title/inside-llewyn-davis-2013/

Director

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Actors

Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, Ethan Phillips, Robin Bartlett, Max Casella, Jerry Grayson, Jeanine Serralles, Adam Driver, Stark Sands
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Producer

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin, Robert Graf, Olivier Courson, Ron Halpern

Operator

Bruno Delbonnel

Composer

Artist

Audition

Ellen Chenoweth

Editing

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
All team (50)

• The film is dedicated to the American folk performer Dave Van Ronk.
• Cinematographer Roger Deakins was unable to work with Ethan and Joel Coen again due to being occupied with another project ("Skyfall", 2012).
• Lewin Davis is a fictional character not based on the life of Dave Van Ronk. However, the idea for his creation came from Van Ronk's memoirs. The film also depicts the Greenwich Village music scene and the real clubs Gaslight Cafe and Gerde's Folk City.
• Folk singer Dave Van Ronk, who was the inspiration for this film, released the album Inside Dave Van Ronk in 1963. The album cover featured a photograph of Van Ronk with a cat. In an interview, Ethan and Joel Coen were asked if there was a connection between this cover and the presence of a cat with the character in the film. They replied that it was not related in any way. Moreover, they only noticed the cat on the cover after filming had finished. During post-production, the art director pointed out this coincidence.
• The cover of the album Inside Llewyn Davis, which is shown in the film, was made in analogy with the cover of Inside Dave Van Ronk.
• After Oscar Isaac's first meeting with T-Bone Burnett, the latter put on a Tom Waits record and simply left the room for an hour.
• Oscar Isaac actually really dislikes cats. This dislike developed in him when he contracted an infection from a cat bite.
• Scott Avett from The Avett Brothers auditioned for the role of Lewin Davis.
• The film's directors told an interviewer that working with multiple cats on set was difficult, and they ended up completely falling out of love with the animals. Mainly due to the difficulties associated with making this film. They said that even working with a trained vulture, which they used on the set of 'True Grit' (2010), was easier than working with cats. And that was considering the vulture was rather unintelligent for a bird.
• Jim and Jean were a real American folk duo, Jim Glover and Jean Ray, who performed in the 1960s in Greenwich Village. Jim Glover was the person who first introduced the legendary performer Phil Ochs to folk music. And Jean Ray was known for inspiring Neil Young to write the song 'Cinnamon Girl'.
• In the scene where Lewin makes a phone call using a public payphone at a subway station, a modern train can be seen arriving at the station from the opposite direction.
• Lewin walks past a poster for the film "The Incredible Journey" (1963), which was released two years after the events of the film.
• A lava lamp can be seen in one of the scenes. Such lamps were invented in 1963, but did not go on sale until 1965.
• All of the Checker Taxi cars are models produced after 1973. This can be determined by their large bumpers.
• At the beginning of the film, Jean asks Lewin if he has ever won the lottery. New Hampshire was the first state in America to begin selling lottery tickets, in 1964.
• The police car that stops the protagonist during his trip to Chicago is a 1963 Plymouth.
• A 1962 Cadillac can be spotted in one of the street scenes in Greenwich Village, even though the film’s events take place in early 1961.
• The drum kit visible in the background of the recording studio is from a much later period.
• When Lewyn and Jean are talking on the couch in Jean’s apartment, her hair noticeably changes position between shots.
• US Highway 80 does not go through Akron. It was likely meant to be Interstate 80, which had not yet been built in 1961. US 80 runs from Savannah to Dallas.