Barton Fink R
There’s only one thing stranger than what’s going on inside his head. What’s going on outside.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 22, 2017
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Turturro & John Goodman | |
Performer: | Michael Lerner, Judy Davis, Jon Polito, John Mahoney, Tony Shalhoub, Richard Portnow, Christopher Murney & Steve Buscemi | |
Directed by | Joel Coen | |
Screenwriting by | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen | |
Composition by | Carter Burwell | |
Produced by | Ethan Coen | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Deakins |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1991 -
Best Actor: John Turturro
Cannes 1991 -
Best Director: Joel Coen
Cannes 1991 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Somehow everything coheres, thanks to the Coens' superb writing and assured direction, and a roster of marvellous performances. The result works on numerous levels, thrilling the mind, ears and eyes, and racking the nerves.
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Time Out
Rating: 10/10 --
In their dark comic masterpiece "Bartin Fink," [The Coens] draw the line between artistic integrity and artistic smugness.
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The Young Folks
Again the Coens take familiar movie tropes and twist them into something new. This may be their most haunting movie.
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Newsweek
Scene after scene is filled with a ferocious strength and humor.
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Variety
Rating: 4/4 --
Weird, funny, would-be cult film, filled with its strange spaces and surreal dream logic.
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Combustible Celluloid
...[The Coens] are filmmakers of considerable ability. Their scripts are invariably clever and bemused, with a wised-up quality all their own...
Los Angeles Times
...Surreal and sometimes sublime...
USA Today
Product Description:
BARTON FINK is the Coen brothers' apocalyptic masterpiece about the creative process. John Turturro stars as the title character, an idealistic young man with an ERASERHEAD-like do who believes that writing should be about the living truth, revealing the hopes, the dreams, the tragedies of the common man. When Hollywood comes calling for him to write a wrestling picture for Wallace Beery, Fink suddenly finds himself in Los Angeles with a severe case of writer's block, unable to combine his deep-seated ethics with Hollywood's desire to just make a buck. Fast-talking mogul Jack Lipnick (a terrific Michael Lerner) sets Barton up at the Hotel Earle, where the writer meets up with Charlie Meadows (John Goodman), a traveling insurance salesman who is ready to fill Barton's head with tales of the common man--but Fink is too busy espousing his defense of the common man to actually listen to him. So Barton seeks to find the answers in W.P. Mayhew (John Mahoney), a Faulkneresque novelist who has sacrificed his morals for the B-pictures and the bottle. When the disillusioned Fink finds himself part of a murder investigation, all hell breaks loose. Joel and Ethan Coen's BARTON FINK is a multilayered, complex psychological study of the creative mind that is as frightening and bizarre as it is hysterically funny.
Keywords:
Black Comedy
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Psychos
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Spoof
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Recommended
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Surreal
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Showbiz
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Nostalgic
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Theatrical Release
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Hollywood
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Essential Cinema
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