Princeton Public Library is set to sponsor a screening and discussion of the Oscar-nominated Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis.
The event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. July 9 in the library’s Community Room, 65 Witherspoon St., Princeton.
The film follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, Llewyn Davis is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles—some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find, Llewyn’s misadventures take him from the baskethouses of the Village to an empty Chicago club—on an odyssey to audition for a music mogul—and back again.
After the screening, Larry Wolfert from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of Rutgers University is set to give some background about Greenwich Village and highlights artists including Dave Van Ronk, Tom Paxton, Ian and Sylvia, Bob Dylan and others.
More information is online at princetonlibrary.org.
