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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 Lane
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Coen brother movie Hands down!,
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This review is from: Barton Fink (DVD)
In my opinion, Barton Fink represents the greatest archievement from Joel and Ethan Coen. They mix here the two genre they are the best with : film noir and comedy, to create a perfect black comedy! The two John are perfect in there role and what about Michael Lerner.....one of these caracter like John *Jesus Quintana* Turturro in The Big Lebowski or J.K. Simmons of the recent Burnt After Reading that are just totally hilarious and typically *coen style*. The directing is top notch, and it's a pretty nice ambiant style. Honestly, if you enjoy Blood Simple, The Hudsucker Proxy or Fargo, this one is like a mix of the three!
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Life of The Mind,
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This is a movie not to be missed.Its subtelty, plus the acting of John Goodman and John Terterro, marks it out as one of the Coen Brothers best.Terterro is an idealistic 'one hit' playwrite who attracts the attentiom of an Hollywood Mogul and is signed-up to write a film.It is made plain to him that he is not required to write an artistic script but one about wrestling: "Big men in tights" as its put to him.He takes a room in an hotel and from there the drama unfolds in the most unexpected ways. Both actors are brilliant in their roles but John Goodman (then in his prime) plays a part unequalled in its authenticity as someone truly insane, being both the gentle easy going giant and a brutal killer as and when the mood takes him.The whole film is a masterpiece with the last scene where Goodman enacts 'the life of the mind' in its most savage form, and then reverting to the 'gentle giant,being particularly moving.This is a film destined to become 'cult'and in the years to come collectible.It is not a film which reveals its full subtelty at first viewing but those who watch it more than once will be well repayed by increased insight into its complexity and drama. A must buy for the discerning.A.Murphy. PostgraduatePsychology.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Difficult but rewarding,
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This review is from: Barton Fink (DVD)
Barton Fink is a nightmarish film and a black comedy, much of which takes place in a lifelike hotel sparsely populated by grotesque characters. Barton is himself a nervous, self-absorbed nerd, and fits right in. His roomate, Charly, is an overweight salesman with an ear infection who has some kind of bizarre telepathic connection with the hotel. Their conversations are sublimely entertaining, and undeniably the work of the Coen brothers. Even if the somewhat self-absorbed plotline of a playwright unable to write a wrestling screenplay due to personal eccentricities doesn't interest you, the film is visually fascinating from beginning to end. Stylistically, it resembles a mutation of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick, which in itself should promise a good, eerie, challenging two hours of surrealism and allegory. Indeed, it's full of clever visual clues that will spark arguments over what it all means. Should be of interest to the artsy-fartsy crowd, conventional types shoudn't waste their time.
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