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Aug 21, 1991 · "Barton Fink" might possibly be classified as a satire on the life of the mind. There is no doubt that it is about the perils of the mind for someone as impressionable as Barton...
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Aug 23, 1991 · Barton Fink is a left-wing New York playwright, modeled on the Clifford Odets of “Waiting for Lefty,” who writes one proletarian hand-wringer in the late 1930s and then is summoned to Hollywood, where Jack Lipnick (Lerner), the vulgarian in charge of Capitol Pictures, pays him piles of money and assigns him to write a wrestling picture for ...
Barton Fink (played by John Turturro and loosely but conspicuously based on playwright Clifford Odets) is the toast of the New York theater world for his latest play about the proletariat and...
Set in 1941, an intellectual New York playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) accepts an offer to write movie scripts in L.A. He finds himself with writer's block when required to do a...
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- Joel Coen
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- John Turturro
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block.
Jan 23, 2012 · Barton Fink weaves the yarn of its namesake character (played by the inimitable John Turturro), a bold, fresh New York playwright. After attaining critical success with his latest play Bare...
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Aug 21, 1991 · The movie's only flaw is its unsatisfying final quarter, where it raises a lot of questions but fails to provide a satisfactory answer for them. Still, the rest of the movie is great, with superb production values and a brilliantly satirical (yet truthful) portrayal of Hollywood and writer's block.
