Barton Fink (Blu-ray) R
There’s only one thing stranger than what’s going on inside his head. What’s going on outside.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 22, 2017
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Turturro & John Goodman | |
Performer: | Michael Lerner, Judy Davis, Jon Polito, John Mahoney, Tony Shalhoub, Richard Portnow, Christopher Murney & Steve Buscemi | |
Directed by | Joel Coen | |
Screenwriting by | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen | |
Composition by | Carter Burwell | |
Produced by | Ethan Coen | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Deakins |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1991 -
Best Actor: John Turturro
Cannes 1991 -
Best Director: Joel Coen
Cannes 1991 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
...The Coens share with Lynch an ability to find brilliant aural and tactile devices to suggest a world gone awry...
Sight and Sound
...Partly hilarious, partly horrific, totally mesmerizing...
Rolling Stone
...Surreal and sometimes sublime...
USA Today
Rating: 4/4 --
Weird, funny, would-be cult film, filled with its strange spaces and surreal dream logic.
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Combustible Celluloid
It was like a witty and stylish description of a dripping tap or a damp sock. Dripping taps and damp socks are all very well, I thought to myself at the end of the film, but when it comes to the crunch, who gives a fink?
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The Spectator
Rating: B --
Goes off the deep end.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: B --
Part "Eraserhead" and part "Naked Lunch," "Barton Fink" is like whitefish on sand.
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ColeSmithey.com
Product Description:
BARTON FINK is the Coen brothers' apocalyptic masterpiece about the creative process. John Turturro stars as the title character, an idealistic young man with an ERASERHEAD-like do who believes that writing should be about the living truth, revealing the hopes, the dreams, the tragedies of the common man. When Hollywood comes calling for him to write a wrestling picture for Wallace Beery, Fink suddenly finds himself in Los Angeles with a severe case of writer's block, unable to combine his deep-seated ethics with Hollywood's desire to just make a buck. Fast-talking mogul Jack Lipnick (a terrific Michael Lerner) sets Barton up at the Hotel Earle, where the writer meets up with Charlie Meadows (John Goodman), a traveling insurance salesman who is ready to fill Barton's head with tales of the common man--but Fink is too busy espousing his defense of the common man to actually listen to him. So Barton seeks to find the answers in W.P. Mayhew (John Mahoney), a Faulkneresque novelist who has sacrificed his morals for the B-pictures and the bottle. When the disillusioned Fink finds himself part of a murder investigation, all hell breaks loose. Joel and Ethan Coen's BARTON FINK is a multilayered, complex psychological study of the creative mind that is as frightening and bizarre as it is hysterically funny.
Keywords:
Black Comedy
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Psychos
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Spoof
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Recommended
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Surreal
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Showbiz
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Nostalgic
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Theatrical Release
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Hollywood
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 115,387
- UPC: 738329207403
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