One primary pleasure of the Coen brothers' new movie, "Inside Llewyn Davis" — a film that is abundant in its pleasures — is revisiting a New York that most New Yorkers thought was gone for good: Greenwich Village of the early 1960s, when downtown was teeming with bohemians and dreamers and not with lost tourists holding upside-down maps. "Davis" follows a Bob Dylanesque folk singer named Llewyn Davis and unfolds mostly (with a few detours to far-flung uptown and Chicago) in that fabled realm of a lost New York, complete with cold-water flats and smoke-filled subterranean clubs.
Because the movie was shot almost entirely on location, in present-day, bohemian-unfriendly and indoor-smoking-adverse New York City, we asked Bruno Delbonnel, the film's cinematographer, and Jess Gonchor, the production designer (and a lifelong New Yorker): How do you exhume the New York of back then from under the archaeological gloss of New York, circa now?
"The projects with the Coens are mainly done, and prefer to be done, in camera," Gonchor said, "as opposed to a lot of fancy C.G.I. work or aftereffects" — which is to say, Joel and Ethan Coen wanted to avoid as much postproduction digital cleanup as possible. (For one: You lose the visceral sense of authenticity. For another: It's really expensive.) Gonchor definitely knew the general feel he wanted to recreate. "The cover of 'Freewheelin',' that shot on Great Jones Street of Bob Dylan. How do you bring that to life?" The first step was finding the right locations, many of which aren't anywhere near present-day Greenwich Village but instead are scattered across four boroughs. The second step was filming each scene in a way that would mask any modern intrusions — and filming it quickly enough that no new intrusions could pop up. "I'd go and pick a corner to do a shot on, and when we'd go back there to start installing our signage and awnings, there would be scaffolding up," Gonchor said. "That's what it was like trying to film in New York."
Still, as the film proves, that old New York is still out there. You just have to know where, and how, to look.
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