I didn't like Inside Llewyn Davis very much.

the whole asshole genius starving artist myth is one of those things I don't really ever need to see again.

I like Music and Lyrics a lot better. https://www.patreon.com/posts/music-and-lyrics-41565366

kind of like the soundtrack more than the movie, but I think the film's take on the relationship between art and commerce is...a lot more flexible and interesting than you generally see in film treatments.

when the Coen brothers lean towards literary fiction it's not good, in general.

I don't know that they generally have a ton to say beyond, "shit happens". and if the shit happening is genre pulpy goodness, cool! if it's just miserable people being miserable...less interested.

also watching lots of Coen brothers films in short order it's really remarkable how few are helmed by women characters (as in, none of them are, right?)

they have ensembles where there are women, and they have films about men...and that's kind of it.

Fargo's the closest of those I've seen...and Intolerable Cruelty has a het couple as co-leads.

people talk about how sexist Tarantino is, and that's not wrong necessarily, but he's got at least four films where a woman is definitely the lead.