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Barton Fink is a 1991 American period black comedy psychological thriller film written, produced, edited and directed by the Coen brothers.
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.
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...
In the wake of his early but undeniable theatrical success in Broadway, the idealistic author of the proletariat and self-pitying 1940s New York playwright, Barton Fink, finds himself lured to dazzling Hollywood to write scripts for eccentric Jack Lipnick's Capitol Pictures.
Aug 21, 2021 · Thirty years ago today, Barton Fink hit theaters, coming off a triple-win at Cannes and confirming that the Coen brothers were not just formalist genre-film brats but bona fide geniuses.
Feb 18, 2023 · The ironically bombastic ending of the film was the culmination of its transformation from a subtle character study into an over-the-top Hollywood film, and Barton's life became the unrealistic story he often railed against. Like Sullivan's Travels though, Fink couldn't see that entertainment was art in its own way.
Aug 21, 1991 · His first assignment for Capitol Pictures is a wrestling movie "for Wally Beery." "It's not a B picture; Capitol Pictures does not make B pictures," says Jack Lipnick (Michael Lerner), Capitol's...
