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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.
- (129K)
- Comedy, Drama, Thriller
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- 1991-08-21
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.
- David Fear
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...
- (67)
- Joel Coen
- R
- John Turturro
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.
Feb 18, 2023 · Referencing the themes of 1941's Sullivan's Travels, the ending of Barton Fink showed that life cannot be analyzed, only lived. Barton's biggest problem was that life tried to come to him, but he was too selfish to accept it unless it conformed to his vision.
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New York intellectual Barton Fink comes to Hollywood in 1941 to write a screenplay, but he soon finds himself with a severe case of writer's block as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him from his task.
