Unable to write and obsessed with writing about the ‘common man,’ the self-pitying writer, who hardly leaves his dinghy room, suffers from insecurity. The humorless intellectual writer is befriended by the good natured but slobbish travelling insurance salesman Charlie Meadows (John Goodman), an ‘everyman’ figure, who has a room next to his in the hotel and is only too glad to tell the writer stories about his common man experiences, stories that can cure his writer’s block, but the snobbish writer won’t listen. Mayer and other studio heads, to write a Hollywood film (a wrestling film to star Wallace Beery) and is put up in a dumpy Los Angeles hotel in 1942, just before World War II. It won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and also awards for Best Actor (John Turturro) and for Best Director (Coen brothers).Īfter his hit play “Bare Ruined Choirs” on Broadway, Barton Fink (John Turturro) is invited by the eccentric Capitol Pictures studio mogul Jack Lipnick (Michael Lerner), who is a composite of MGM’s Louis B. The siblings, Joel and Ethan Coen (“Blood Simple”/”Miller’s Crossing”), have co-directed and written a chilling comedy about the Hollywood scene (featuring its Philistine virtues compared to the more serious stage virtues of Broadway). Mayhew), Tony Shalhoub (Ben Geisler), Jon Polito (Lou Breeze), Steve Buscemi (Chet), Christopher Murney (Detective Deutsch), Richard Portnow (Detective Mastrionotti) Runtime: 116 MPAA Rating: R producers: Joel & Ethan Coen Netflix/Circle Films/Kino-Lorber 1991)īarton Fink is a unique deco-period film, whose hero is modeled after the earnest leftist playwright Clifford Odets, of NYC’s Group Theater, who scored it big with his Depression-era plays in the 1930s. (director/writer: Joel & Ethan Coen cinematographer: Roger Deakins editors: Joel & Ethan Coen music: Carter Burwell cast: John Turturro (Barton Fink), John Goodman (Charlie Meadows), Judy Davis (Audrey Taylor), Michael Lerner (Jack Lipnick), John Mahoney (W.P.
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