Coen brothers set sights on New York's folk scene

True Grit directors are reportedly planning biopic of folk singer Dave Van RonkIn one of their characteristic 180-degree turns, the Coen brothers appear to be planning to follow up their successful western True Grit with a film about the New York coffeehouse folk scene of the 1950s and 60s. After reports last month that the Coens were planning a "music-based movie", the LA Times now suggests that the subject will be focused on the radical folk scene that nurtured Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Joni M...

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