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- Although Barton Fink isn't typically classified as a horror film, its use of anxiety makes it a worthy entry in the genre.
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Oct 12, 2021 · The final, fiery set piece of Barton Fink most explicitly makes the case for it as a horror film. You have the terror of someone handcuffed to a hotel bed as a man charges...
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The diverse elements of the film have led it to defy efforts at genre classification, with the work being variously referred to as a film noir, a horror film, a Künstlerroman, a postmodernist film and a buddy film.
Aug 23, 1991 · Like all of the Coen productions, “Barton Fink” has a deliberate visual style. The Hollywood of the late 1930s and early 1940s is seen here as a world of Art Deco and deep shadows, long hotel corridors and bottomless swimming pools. And there is a horror lurking underneath the affluent surface.
Aug 21, 1991 · Barton Fink: Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. With John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner. A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
- (130K)
- Comedy, Drama, Thriller
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- 1991-08-21
Feb 18, 2023 · Mixing elements of noir, horror, comedy, and drama, the movie was a veritable pastiche of Old Hollywood and cinema itself. Now remembered as the celebrated auteur directors' most underrated movie, Barton Fink was also a bitter look at the Hollywood system and its seeming war on artistic expression. Obviously close to the hearts of its creators ...
- Dalton Norman
- Senior Staff Writer
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 B-movie...
- (67)
- Drama
- R
Fink travels back to his hotel room to begin, but when he arrives he types one sentence and then falls into the horror of writer's block. He tries getting help from his neighbor, "Common Man" Charlie Meadows; famed writer Mayhew; Mayhew's girlfriend Audrey and producer Ben Geisler.
