Barton Fink
by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Actor: John Goodman, John Mahoney, John Turturro, Judy Davis, Michael LernerDirector: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Producer: Ethan Coen
Writer: Ethan Coen
Writer: Joel Coen
Producer: Ben Barenholtz
Producer: Bill Durkin
Producer: Graham Place
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Barton Fink
DVD Review: A Real Cast of Characters
Summary: 4 Stars
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 couldn't get enough of these zany personalities that create a circus of insanity around our otherwise stuffy "hero". It gets crazy at times but it works. DVD Review: Another Coen Brothers' Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
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. DVD Review: When the demons escape from the box!
Summary: 5 Stars
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 not great writer will be pressured by the producers to make a script about the free wrestle. He feels uncomfortable and lacks inspiration, because he is firmly convinced about the role of the art as device of transformation in the human being. When he exposes these standpoints in the famous sequence of the swimming pool, he sounds as he was out of his mind, because he has not captured the mission of the business. But meanwhile in his hotel room, he will meet his neighbor room, a very weird personage (John Goodman made the greatest performance of his lifetime) who eventually will become his only intersection line respect the outer world. On the other hand, seeking inspiration he gets to meet to a brilliant but decaying writer in order to find some clues to make his expected project come true .
You have basically in this cocktail of hallucinating set of fevered personages a satiric metaphor around many, many issues. In sum, a cinematographic jewel all the way through, provided with all the accurate dosis of violence, drama and fine humor.
DVD Review: Great!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Arrived fast and was in perfect condition. I really liked the movie!
Great purchase..
DVD Review: Another good one from the Coen brothers
Summary: 4 Stars
This 1991 film by the Coen brothers is a very dark comedy about the pitfalls of Hollywood.
Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a writer on Broadway that has claimed some success and is wanted by the "Hollywood" studios. He reluctantly goes west to try and achieve some more of his dream as a writer. Barton views himself as a great writer of the typical working man, but is contracted to write a script for a low budget wrestling movie. On the way he meets Charlie (John Goodman) an insurance salesman with a darkside and Audrey a girlfriend to a writer that Barton idolizes. Barton hits a writer's block and things don't go so good.
For those that love the Coen brothers films, like myself, this is another good movie, but not for everyone. If you like Fargo, Raising Arizona and No Country for Old Men, then you'd enjoy this one also.
Description of Barton Fink
Set in Hollywood during the 1940's, "Barton Fink" is a comic satire about creative egos, flashy moguls, a travelling salesman and a nasty case of writer's block. Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a New York playwright lured to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter. It doesn't take long for Barton's life to erupt in complete chaos. His studio boss orders the serious-minded Barton to write a low budget wrestling movie. Deeply disappointed, Barton returns to his seedy hotel, types one sentence and then? nothing. To make matters worse, he is continually interrupted by Charlie (John Goodman), a chatty travelling insurance salesman who lives next door. Eventually they become friends and Charlie tries to help Barton by teaching him the finer points of wrestling. As the clock ticks away and the temperature climbs, Barton becomes more desperate as his life spins out of control.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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