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Wait this isn’t the Bob Dylan biopic??- ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’

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  After a long hiatus, the blog is back!! I know you missed me I’ve been thinking about writing again for a while, but honestly, I was living with some crazy cinephiles, and we were watching films at a speed that was probably not healthy. Work by day, film viewing by night—it was  bliss . That being said, I spent more time yapping in person about whether the film we watched each evening was brilliant or a snooze fest, instead of writing it down! Now that my living situation has changed, it's the perfect time to bring back Evie’s Good Film Hunting, and what better way than to kick things off with a sad one.   The Coen brothers' ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ follows a struggling folk singer in 1960s New York, portrayed candidly by Oscar Isaac. Despite being ridiculously good-looking and having an obvious gift for writing beautifully crafted folk songs (how did the songwriters not get an Oscar nomination for this??), Llewyn’s career is mediocre at best. This resulted in an authentic and h