2014’s Best Folk Music Movies

It’s time to take a look at the best folk music movies of 2014. These are the films that captured the hearts and minds of music lovers everywhere.

Inside Llewyn Davis

Inside Llewyn Davis is a folk music movie set in the New York City folk music scene of the early 1960s. The film follows Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), a struggling folk musician who is trying to make it in the music industry. The film features an amazing soundtrack of folk songs, and includes performances by Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, and Justin Timberlake.

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints is a 2013 American crime drama film written and directed by David Lowery. The film stars Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Ben Foster, and Nate Parker. Set in Texas in the 1970s, the film follows an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out to reunite with his wife and their daughter.

The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was nominated for several Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature and Best Director.

Sweetheart

Today, the word sweetheart is used as a term of endearment, but it was not always so. In fact, the word has a long and interesting history.

The first recorded use of the word sweetheart is from 1375, in the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In the poem, Sir Gawain uses the word to describe his lady love, Lady Bertilak. The word continued to be used in this way throughout the 14th and 15th centuries.

In the 16th century, the meaning of sweetheart began to change. It started to be used to describe a woman who was not one’s wife or fiancée, but with whom one was having a sexual relationship. This usage continued into the 17th century.

It wasn’t until the 18th century that sweetheart began to be used as a term of endearment. This usage became especially popular in the 19th century. Today, we typically use sweetheart to describe our significant others, our children, or anyone else whom we love dearly.

The Broken Circle Breakdown

The Broken Circle Breakdown is a 2014 Belgian drama film directed by Felix Van Groeningen. The film stars Veerle Baetens and Johan Heldenbergh as Elise and Didier, a bluegrass banjo player and a tattoo artist who fall in love and start a family together. The film follows their relationship as it is tested by tragedy.

The Broken Circle Breakdown was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards. It won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language at the 67th British Academy Film Awards.

The Wind Rises

The Wind Rises is a Japanese animated historical drama film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Dentsu, and distributed by Toho. The film is adapted from Miyazaki’s manga of the same name, which was in turn loosely based on Tatsuo Hori’s novel The Greatasha and Jiro Horikoshi’s autobiography. It was the last film Miyazaki directed before his retirement in September 2013.

The Wind Rises is set in Japan during the 1920s–1930s period of great social upheaval and follows Jirō Horikoshi, the aircraft designer responsible for the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. The film discusses elegantly how he overcomes his own physical limitations to achieve his goals while being sympathetic to those who did not share his advantages.

In an alternate world where technology progressed at a different rate, The Wind Rises would have been about how machinery can triumph over obstacles; in ours it becomes a story about how individuals can do the same.”