Coen Bros: Inside Llewyn Davis part 8
So Llewyn, for the first time in a while, is now truly homeless, due to circumstances entirely within his control. For the next few days, his home is Al Cody’s car, which is being driven to Chicago by a couple of friends of Al’s. He takes his cat, which is not the Gorfein’s cat and not his cat, in fact we don’t know whose cat it is, and neither does Llewyn. The cat is, currently, just another orphan of the storm of Llewyn’s life. Spoiler alert!
Coen Bros: Inside Llewyn Davis part 7
Llewyn, having worn out his welcome at Jim and Jean’s place, is now without abode. He meets Jean at the Cafe Reggio for a kiss-off date. Spoiler alert!
Coen Bros: Inside Llewyn Davis part 6
So who is Llewyn Davis? Where does he come from? Does he, like Dylan (and the Coens), come from the bleak, rugged land of the north Midwest, land of farms and iron? (SPOILER ALERT)
Coen Bros: Inside Llewyn Davis part 5
This movie is still in theaters. If you keep reading this analysis, things will be spoiled for you. Just sayin’.
Coen Bros: Inside Llewyn Davis part 4
Now, don’t go a-readin’ this here analysis before you’ve seen the movie, because it’s awesome. The movie I mean.
Coen Bros: Inside Llewyn Davis part 3
Hey guys, be cool, don’t go reading this if you haven’t seen the movie, it’ll just spoil it for you.
Coen Bros: Inside Llewyn Davis part 2
As this excellent movie is still in theaters, let the reader beware: spoiler alert.
Coen Bros: Inside Llewyn Davis part 1
As this excellent film has just started its run in theaters, let the reader beware: spoiler alert.
Todd Alcott: now available in book form!
Attention, people who can read! There are two excellent new books out, Devastator #9 by the editors of The Devastator and Lebowski 101 by Mr. Oliver Benjamin.
What makes these particular books excellent? I am featured in each! Devastator #9, a typically sly and brilliant issue of Geoffrey Golden’s humor quarterly, features one of my rarer-than-hen’s-teeth comics pieces, and Lebowski 101, a volume of smart writing on everyone’s favorite Coen Bros movie, features my own take on the now-classic.
Pick them both up today at your favorite online retailer!
Favorite screenplays: Robocop part 5
It warms my analytic heart when filmmakers announce act breaks with devices, and Robocop does not disappoint. Each act begins with a news report and attendant commercials (as news is, lest we forget, just another form of entertainment in a corporate oligarchy). Act III begins with a commercial for a car, the 6000 SUX, done in the style of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, yet another low-budget film reference to let cinephiles know they’re dealing with a self-aware, intelligent satire. The dinosaur in the car commercial terrorizes the city streets until it’s dwarfed by the advertised car. The joke, of course, is not just that the car is huge, but that the huge car out-dinosaurs an actual dinosaur. (It’s also fueled by dead dinosaurs, if you want to take its dominance that far.)