Inside Llewyn Davis marks musician/producer/composer T-Bone Burnett’s fourth collaboration with the Coen Brothers. His first (Oh Brother, Where Art Thou earned him an Oscar—and somehow cemented a spiritual relationship he and the brothers seem to have with Homer’s Odyssey, the classic story of leaving from home and messily finding your way back. According to Burnett, he knew he’d like the filmmaking duo when he first saw Raising Arizona because of a reference to Strangelove they’d spray painted on the wall of a bathroom.
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