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New Coen Brothers Film May Highlight Greenwich Village Folk Scene

From a man of constant sorrow to the Mayor of Macdougal Street? For Joel and Ethan Coen, perhaps. The Oscar-winning siblings are potentially headed downtown for their next big-screen feature, a story about famed musician Dave Van Ronk and the dawn of the ’60s folk music scene in New York’s Greenwich Village that helped make Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Phil Ochs famous.

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New Coen Brothers Film May Highlight Greenwich Village Folk Scene

Artist-Producer Andrew Levitas on the Art of Getting By in Film

Movie producers routinely say they’re about artistic integrity, but Metalwork Pictures’ Andrew Levitas finds himself in the unique position of actually being an artist himself, having come up through the New York City art scene as a heralded painter, sculptor, and photographer. So when he speaks of box office potential as being almost incidental to a film as work of art, he’s the rare producer who actually sounds genuinely unconcerned with financial returns.

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Artist-Producer Andrew Levitas on the Art of Getting By in Film