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Barton Fink
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In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture and finds himself with writer';;;;;s block when required to do a B-movie wrestling script, the only relief coming from a traveling salesman living next door.
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture and finds himself with writer';;;;;s block when required to do a B-movie wrestling script, the only relief coming from a traveling salesman living next door.
Actors:
Anthony Gordon,
Robert Beecher,
Jack Denbo,
Jana Marie Hupp,
Harry Bugin,
Christopher Murney,
Steve Buscemi
Anthony Gordon
Robert Beecher
4 November 1924, Hollywood, California, USA
Jack Denbo
7 February 1925, Aurora, Illinois, USA
Jana Marie Hupp
2 April 1964, Spokane, Washington, USA
Harry Bugin
10 March 1929, New York City, New York, USA
Christopher Murney
20 July 1943, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
Steve Buscemi
13 December 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Director:
Joel Coen ,
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
29 November 1954, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Ethan Coen
21 September 1957, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Country:
United States
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Moviehole
April 19, 2008
Does cinema get any better than this?
April 04, 2011
Goes off the deep end.
October 18, 2008
Again the Coens take familiar movie tropes and twist them into something new. This may be their most haunting movie.
November 06, 2007
The film's period decor, mood lighting and artful camerawork are beautiful, at times thrilling, to look at.
November 06, 2007
Scene after scene is filled with a ferocious strength and humor.
February 14, 2017
Part "Eraserhead" and part "Naked Lunch," "Barton Fink" is like whitefish on sand.
January 16, 2013
It's at its best when young Barton Fink simply stares at a picture of a bathing beauty contemplating the ocean -- a Hollywood dream.
Common Sense Media
January 02, 2011
Bizarre Hollywood dream factory. Teens only.
November 06, 2007
This creepy satire is full of laughs and flaky twists, but by the end you may still be scratching your head.
November 15, 2009
Resembles not the artist's churning mind but the filmmakers' conjoined colon
October 13, 2009
Gnomic, claustrophobic, hallucinatory, just plain weird, it is the kind of movie critics can soak up thousands of words analyzing and cinephiles can soak up at least three espressos arguing their way through.
January 26, 2006
Somehow everything coheres, thanks to the Coens' superb writing and assured direction, and a roster of marvellous performances. The result works on numerous levels, thrilling the mind, ears and eyes, and racking the nerves.