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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 21 August, 1991 DVD Release : 20 May, 2003 |
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Barton Fink description 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 idolizes, and then his neighbor 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 neighbor, 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 Lane |
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| Imagine, the men who made this brillant movie about writing and Hollywood and pretentiousness, who then also made Lebowski and Fargo and some other good stuff, unfortunately also some nonsense about a divorce lawyer and a silly remake of a black crime comedy with displaced Tom Hanks, these movie geniuses had to pick a mediocre novel by an overrated novelist and put an excellent Spanish actor into it, but gave him a silly haircut and forbade him to act but instructed him to kill everybody in sight, which some people found funny or existentially relevant, these guys achieved their highest level of movie success with that perfect nothing, the movie about no country for old men.
The talent is there, guys, you can do it, you can make good movies after all! Please try to remember your skills! P.S. I got attacked by my friend Metamorpho for not saying enough about Barton Fink but spending most of my review space on something else. Where he is right, he is right. So here is comes. Turturro is a recently successful leftish Jewish New Yorker playwright who gets himself reluctantly signed up by a Hollywood tycoon for a stint as a movie script writer. Of course he develops a bad case of writer's block and starts befriending his hotel neighbor Goodman who seems to be a friendly insurance salesman, which of course he is not. I mention the Jewishness of the title hero on purpose: one of the strongest scene in this movie, which is a mixture of black and screwball comedy, is when Barton gets interrogated by the police in a serial murder case. The cops make sarcastic comments about the fact that the hotel is obviously not restricted. Which tied in surprisingly with the other movie that I reviewed here on the same day: Focus. Also about US antisemitism in the times of WW2. Another parallel: the hotel room does have some slight similarity to John Cusacks 1408. Just in terms of nightmarishness... |
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