Barton Fink (DVD) Reviews

I like to start out an opinion on a Coen Brothers film with a quote that ended a review of The Big Lebowski. "In a perfect world every movie would be a Coen Bros movie" That really does sum it up as every film they've made from Blood Simple onwards has something fascinating, there's nothing you can point your ...

I love it. It's insane, quirky and slightly confusing, but every minute is enjoyable. This is the story of Barton Fink (John Turturro) a successful playwright who gets signed by a Hollywood studio to write a wrestling picture. This clearly doesn't come natural to Barton, who quickly finds that he has no indea how to write one. ...

Coen brothers films are known to have a slightly quirky, surreal quality to them. For this they have managed to win numerous fans, me amongst them but this doesn't mean I'll automatically like every film they release (I didn't like Fargo). Whilst this 1991 film isn't there best (that accolade is reserved for 'Raising ...

This is the story of an author trapped in a hotel/hell with writer's block. It is no surprise that this film won awards on its first release as it is an excellent story jam packed full of black comedy. From the wallpaper un-peeling itself from the wall to the thought of what really is in John Goodman's hat box this will keep you guessing ...

You have to be very patient when you watch this, the least screwball and most potentially irritating of all of the Coen Brothers' movies. It's the one with the most impenetrable layers, and in Barton Fink (John Turturro), the Coens have created their most hard-to-like hero (especially when compared to the delightful innocents in 'The ...

Turturro and Goodman are both excellent in this film. Everyone is good in it and I can see why people would rate it as a brilliant movie. However, it reached into the deep, dark parts of my paranoid psyche and scared me to death. There was something too surreal yet real about this film for me. The Cohen brothers have produced another ...

After making "Miller's Crossing" the previous year, the Coen brothers had a hard act to follow if they were to continue their success. Fortunately they managed it with "Barton Fink" a superb satire on the film industry. Set in the 1940's, it stars John Turturro as a intellectual left-wing playwright who goes to ...