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 Barton Fink (DVD)
Description: Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Fantasy / Theatrical Release: 1991 / Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen / Actors: John ... more  Barton Fink (DVD) ... Turturro, John Goodman ... / DVD released 20 May, 2003 at 20th Century Fox / Features of the DVD: NTSC, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen / A darkly comic ride, this intense and original 1991 offering from the Coen brothers (Fargo, Blood Simple) gleefully attacks the Hollywood system and those who seek to sell out to it, portraying the writer's suffering as a loony vision of hell. John Turturro (Miller's Crossing, Jungle Fever) plays the title character, a pretentious left-wing writer from New York City who is brought to 1930s Hollywood to write a script for a wrestling movie for palooka actor Wallace Beery. Fink thinks the job is beneath him, but his desire for acceptance gets the better of him, and he suddenly finds himself holed up in a fleabag hotel in Los Angeles, where he is almost immediately afflicted with writer's block. Various distractions begin to enter his life, first in the form of a famous southern writer (John Mahoney) whom Fink idolises, and then his neighbour in the hotel, a seemingly amiable salesman played by John Goodman (Sea of Love, Raising Arizona). The writer turns out to be a self-loathing drunk whose secretary (Judy Davis) is the one actually doing the writing. And the neighbour, the working-class hero who Fink made his reputation writing about, may have a horrifying secret of his own. Equal parts social commentary and hilarious farce, and winner of the Best Picture, Actor, and Director prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, Barton Fink is a visionary and original comic masterpiece not to be missed. --Robert LaneNewest Review: ... it and Barton Fink is the result. The film is set in 1940's Hollywood where writers and actors were often under contract ... more ... to a studio and not free to sell their ideas around town. Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a New York playwright who is just coming off some critical acclaim for one of his plays. A movie mogul brings him to LA and puts him under contract to write a B-movie about wrestling. Barton is reluctant but the money is enough to put him through writing more plays in the future. So Barton takes up residence in an old hotel where the wallpaper is peeling and there doesn't seem to be another soul apart from the porter and lift...more |
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Barton Fink (DVD): I Fink Therefore I Am (600 words)
by utero - written on 26.07.03 (Very useful, 58 readings)
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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 finger at and say it was terrible. Sure some people may find their films empty, slow and plodding. But that's these peoples loss. The Coen's make films, not movies. These films often emulate genres of the thirties and forties but put a modern day spin on them. Barton Fink was an idea that came quickly after they ...
What's in the box? (734 words)
by Irp13 - written on 20.08.01 (Very useful, 415 readings)
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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 Arizona') but its certainly a fine film, a point which is showed by the three awards it appears to have won at the Cannes film festival. Barton Fink is a New York scriptwriter in 1941, who wants to write about and for the common man. This is something that Barton is quite passionate about and Charlie (John Goodman's ...
Barton Fink (DVD): That Barton Fink feeling! (198 words)
by moronboy - written on 27.08.00 (Very useful, 25 readings)
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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 Big Lebowski', 'The Hudsucker Proxy' and 'Raising Arizona'). Fink is a leftwing playwright (modelled on Clifford Odets), lured to Hollywood by a rich studio owner (modelled on Louis B. Meyer) to write cheesy wrestling movies. Lodged in a crumbling hotel, Fink gets mixed up with a strange neighbour ...
Barton Fink (DVD) : What do I Fink of this one?from dave2707
24.03.2002
Barton Fink (DVD) : Weird and scary!from Motley
16.07.2000
