Barton Fink
starring: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney
directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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A playwright checks into a seedy hollywood hotel where he must deal with strange characters and writers block.Studio: TcfheRelease Date: 06/12/2007Starring: John Turturro Judy DavisRun time: 116 minutesRating: Pg13
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A darkly comic ride, this intense and original 1991 offering from theCoen 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
A playwright checks into a seedy hollywood hotel where he must deal with strange characters and writers block.Studio: TcfheRelease Date: 06/12/2007Starring: John Turturro Judy DavisRun time: 116 minutesRating: Pg13
Amazon.com essential video:
A darkly comic ride, this intense and original 1991 offering from theCoen 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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- EVERYBODY WRITES ABOUT HOLLYWOOD, BUT EVER TRIED TO LIVE IN SCHOLEM ALECHEM-LAND?
If it works for you its a financial paradise.If it doesn't, its a culturalloy desolate and desolating carnival of sunshine, depravity and decay.You can't have it both ways.But the truth is, Hollywood is not only what it is; that is to say a movie-biz carney town, but a metropolitan entity of mythological dimension.Like Venice, it's improbable; both flashy and shabby, simultaneously.And it too stinks.But...
In BARTON FINK Hollywood is one of the central characters of the story. ... Read More
Rating: - A Real Cast of Characters
I really didn't know what to expect when I rented "Barton Fink" but it wasn't long before I found myself drawn into the movie.The plot has some unusual twists and turns but the thing I came away with was the characters that emerge from the film.John Goodman certainly was one of the top characters in the movie but also noteworthy are the Movie Mogul, the writer (a cross between, I believe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner), the secretary, all the way down to a couple of hard-boiled cops.I ... Read More
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- Another Coen Brothers' Masterpiece
John Turturro is amazing in this wonderful film about a screenwriter in 1940s Hollywood.A scary and mysterious film about a man who "sells his soul" to Hollywood and gets little beyond nightmares in return.A box of nightmares instead of dreams, the writer finds himself in a hellish world where nothing is what it seems and nothing is innocent. I highly recommend this one and would keep myself from knowing too much before the film begins.
Rating: - When the demons escape from the box!
This winner film in Cannes Festival 1991, belongs to the ten best American cinematographic jewels of that decade.
This penetrating script deals with the rise of New York playwright who achieved success, is hired as screenwriter by producers in Hollywood during the early forties.
The Coen brothers explore with magisterial intensity the war times madness in which the evasion was the raw material and the main ingredient for the industry of the entertainment. So this talented but ... Read More
Rating: - Great!!
Arrived fast and was in perfect condition. I really liked the movie!
Great purchase..
- EVERYBODY WRITES ABOUT HOLLYWOOD, BUT EVER TRIED TO LIVE IN SCHOLEM ALECHEM-LAND?If it works for you its a financial paradise.If it doesn't, its a culturalloy desolate and desolating carnival of sunshine, depravity and decay.You can't have it both ways.But the truth is, Hollywood is not only what it is; that is to say a movie-biz carney town, but a metropolitan entity of mythological dimension.Like Venice, it's improbable; both flashy and shabby, simultaneously.And it too stinks.But...
In BARTON FINK Hollywood is one of the central characters of the story. ... Read More
- A Real Cast of CharactersI really didn't know what to expect when I rented "Barton Fink" but it wasn't long before I found myself drawn into the movie.The plot has some unusual twists and turns but the thing I came away with was the characters that emerge from the film.John Goodman certainly was one of the top characters in the movie but also noteworthy are the Movie Mogul, the writer (a cross between, I believe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner), the secretary, all the way down to a couple of hard-boiled cops.I ... Read More
- Another Coen Brothers' MasterpieceJohn Turturro is amazing in this wonderful film about a screenwriter in 1940s Hollywood.A scary and mysterious film about a man who "sells his soul" to Hollywood and gets little beyond nightmares in return.A box of nightmares instead of dreams, the writer finds himself in a hellish world where nothing is what it seems and nothing is innocent. I highly recommend this one and would keep myself from knowing too much before the film begins.
- When the demons escape from the box!This winner film in Cannes Festival 1991, belongs to the ten best American cinematographic jewels of that decade.
This penetrating script deals with the rise of New York playwright who achieved success, is hired as screenwriter by producers in Hollywood during the early forties.
The Coen brothers explore with magisterial intensity the war times madness in which the evasion was the raw material and the main ingredient for the industry of the entertainment. So this talented but ... Read More
- Great!!Arrived fast and was in perfect condition. I really liked the movie!
Great purchase..
