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One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Inside Llewyn Davis (2014)

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Oscar Isaac portrays the titular Llewyn Davis in the latest film from Ethan and Joel Coen:  surely creating one of celluloid’s most memorable losers.  This is a joyfully melancholic film, if that makes any sense.  Set in 1961 in Greenwich village in New York, Llewyn walks through a series of Dylan album covers, beautifully rendered … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Great Gatsby (2013)

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Adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel seems fraught with danger, as film critics and lovers of the book will sharpen their barbs to fire at any such film sticking its head above the parapet.  Critics it has had a plenty, but Baz Luhrmann’s film is something wondrous to look at.  The recreation of the decadence … Read more