Goofs

When LLewyn and Jean are talking on the couch in Jean's apartment, Jean's hair repeatedly changes position between shots.

When Jean and Llewyn are arguing in the coffee shop (?) after she brings down his stuff, her hair changes repeatedly between shots. Her bangs change from pushed the side, to parted, to straight down and back in a very obvious way. She is never shown touching her hair.

Late in the movie Llewyn drops off his guitar at Jean's apartment and then goes to the Gorfeins to spend the night on their couch. When he leaves the Gorfein's apartment the next morning, he has his guitar with him.

The soldier was wearing the correct 1961 fatigues/work clothes. However, soldiers were not permitted to travel in them until recent years and had to be in actual uniform or civilian clothes.

During the scene in Washington Square park, the new stone benches that were added to the park in the recent renovation are clearly visible in the background.

Early in the film when Llewyn wakes up in Jim and Jean's apartment he asks Troy Nelson if he's ever met Elvis Presley. Troy says he's never met "Private Presley." This is an error since the film is set in 1961 and Presley was promoted to Sergeant in September 1960.

After Llewyn returns from his Chicago trip and is staying at his sister's house, the Etch-A-Sketch by the bed reads "Welcome Uncle Llewyn," written in capital block letters (except for the "U" which connects to the "N"). However, it is not possible to create unconnected patterns on an Etch A Sketch screen, as the stylus only moves in a connected line, so only cursive(script) style of writing is possible.

Not only does the cover of the "Timlin and Davis" album shown near the beginning of the film recall the cover of "Inside Dave Van Ronk"; we can see that the liner notes are about Van Ronk.

Despite being set in 1961, Llewyn passes a poster for Disney's "The Incredible Journey" which was released in 1963.

While Llewyn is making a payphone call on the elevated subway platform (Woodside/61st Street), a modern 7 train pulls into the station on the opposite track.

There is a Lava Lamp shown in one scene. The Lava Lamp wasn't invented until 1963 and wasn't available for purchase until 1965.

Ewan MacColl's The Shoals of Herring was composed for and first broadcasted in a BBC 'Radio Ballad' in August 1960. Since the film is set in 1961, Llewyn Davis could not have recorded this as an eight year old.

Llewyn Davis uses two different capos. In the clubs it appears to be a Hamilton capo which was around in the 1960s (although possibly not as early as 1961) but in other scenes he is clearly using a Shubb capo which was not available until 1980.

In the final scene, Bob Dylan doesn't strum his guitar to the audio of "Farewell".

Pappi calls Davis after he finishes the session, this scene is there in the beginning and at the end. Both are two separate shot twice(same scene recorded twice), where they are same as per the story line.If you see, pappi calls davis by right hand in the front and the back side shots in the beginning scene, but in the last scene, he calls him by his right hand from the front side shot and by left in the back side shot. With that davis's leaning and the woman crossing differs in both scene. When it is the same scene, why did they record that twice?

Around 27min into the film when Llewyn's sister goes to grab the box, there's a light outside the window and it is moved away during the shot.

US 80 does NOT go through Akron. That's I-80 (not built in 1961). US 80 goes from San Diego to Savannah.

Early in the film, Llewyn takes the subway downtown to Greenwich Village, and when he arrives at Sheridan Square, we see him coming up from the uptown platform, as if he had been traveling from the other direction. (He should have come up from the staircase across the street visible in the same shot.)

When Llewyn gets dropped off in what is supposed to be Chicago, and again when he hitches a ride back to New York, it was obviously shot in New York judging from the distinctive electrified railroad tracks in the background, either Pennsylvania or New Haven Railroad. Probably the approach to Hell Gate Bridge.

When Davis catches a ride in Chicago with the guy going to New Jersey, the sign behind him is for EAST Illinois Route 92. IL Route 92 terminates at the junction with US Route 34 in La Moille, IL, although it may have terminated in Mendota, IL in 1961. Regardless, one would have to travel almost 100 miles west of Chicago just to reach the eastern terminus of IL Route 92 -- there is definitely no way to travel east on IL Route 92 from Chicago, as the sign indicates.

When the driver is arrested, the camera zooms to the ignition switch of the 1961 Buick. the keys are gone, but on that model the car would still start and run by turning the switch without a key. in the run position the key can be removed. in the lock position-full left-it cannot be restarted.