![]() ![]() The forlorn service station at which they stop is an old barn in Riverhead, over on Long Island. There’s a spell away from New York, but the driving scenes are not the road to Chicago but second unit shots of the wintery roads around the towns of Faribault and Medford in the Coens’s home state of Minnesota. ![]() The subway station entrance is a fake, built for the film on Mott Street at the northwest corner of Bleecker Street. Heading to Chicago, he’s picked up by Roland Turner (scene stealing John Goodman) and his driver Johnny Five ( Garrett Hedlund) outside ‘Varick Street and 7th’ station – or so it appears. Llewyn’s next crash pad is the apartment of singer Al Cody ( Adam Driver) on Thompson Street between Bleecker and West Houston Streets, opposite the (now closed) Rocco Ristorante, 181 Thompson Street. The girlfriend of Frank Serpico ( Al Pacino) works in the Reggio in Sidney Lumet’s Serpico, though it's not seen in the film, and it’s often listed as a location for The Godfather Part II, but I can’t see it anywhere in that film. The coffee shop was previously seen in Shaft, as well as the rather dull 1976 thriller The Next Man (with Sean Connery as an Arab diplomat!) and Next Stop, Greenwich Village. Llewyn meets Jean to discuss arrangements in one of the Village’s longtime institutions, Caffe Reggio, 119 MacDougal Street at West Third Street. This station was previously seen onscreen in John Cassavetes' 1980 film Gloria, with Gena Rowlands. It’s on the platform of 61st Street-Woodside Ave station on the IRT Flushing Line that Llewyn gets news of a recording session. Her suburban home is 58-56 41st Drive in Woodside, Queens. Jean reveals she’s pregnant and, during a tense conversation in Washington Square Park, lets Llewyn know that he’s quite possibly the father.įaced with the need to get money for an abortion, Llewyn visits his long-suffering and not too sympathetic sister Joy ( Jeanine Serralles) to ask for a loan. Inside Llewyn Davis location: Llewyn and Jean have a serious talk: Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, New York With no place to call his own, Davis crashes on a series of friends’ couches, including that of the well-to-do liberal Gorfeins on Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side, where life gets complicated once he inadvertently allows their house cat to escape.Īlong with the bemused pussycat, Davis takes the subway from 96th Street Station down to Greenwich Village, where he emerges from Christopher Street Station in a tight shot which manages to avoid modern additions, but does include the venerable landmark Village Cigars, 110 Seventh Avenue South at Christopher Street. The little alleyway, seemingly alongside the club, where Llewyn is confronted by an extremely irate audience member, is alongside St James’ Roman Catholic Church on James Street, just off Madison Street, southern Chinatown alongside the Manhattan Bridge. The club’s interior was recreated up in Brooklyn, inside events space the Red Lotus Room, 893 Bergen Street in Crown Heights. The Gaslight closed its doors in 1971, to become a bar called 116, which in turn closed down in 2012.Ī stretch of East 9th Street, between First Avenue and Avenue A, in the East Village was transformed into the Village of the Sixties, with 424 East 9th Street becoming the Gaslight. Much of the film revolves around the West Village’s Gaslight Club, which was a real venue, standing at 116 Macdougal Street. The cover for he 1964 album Inside Dave Van Ronk does look extraordinarily like the cover for the fictitious Inside Llewyn Davis, though. The directors claim the screenplay was inspired by Van Ronk’s memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street – but then they also said that Fargo was based on a true story. Llewyn Davis ( Oscar Isaac) is loosely based on Dave Van Ronk, who performed in the Village’s bohemian hangouts, and who died in 2002. The Coen brothers follow a week in the life of a Greenwich Village folk musician in 1961, before Bob Dylan catapulted folk into the mainstream.
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