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Aug 21, 1991 · There is no doubt that it is about the perils of the mind for someone as impressionable as Barton Fink (John Turturro). Barton is a pious, prissy New York playwright of very funny, unredeemed...
- 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 ...
Aug 21, 2021 · No sooner has Fink, bard of the common man and the misguided hero of Joel and Ethan Coen ‘s venomous 1991 masterpiece, scored great opening night reviews for his social-realist melodrama Bare...
- David Fear
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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- John Turturro
Aug 21, 1991 · Just the best role of John Tuturro in his career. Barton Fink has a huge array of references to the Coen brothers' early films. An excellent black comedy, in which there is no low-grade humor, but there is a provocative surrealism of what is happening.
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Barton Fink is a 1991 American black comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a film studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie Meadows, the insurance salesman who lives next door at ...
