Barton Fink
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.
29 December 1950, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 December 1934, Stone, Staffordshire, England, UK
20 August 1946, Iowa, USA
23 April 1955, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
20 July 1943, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
20 June 1940, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
7 February 1925, Aurora, Illinois, USA
20 June 1952, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
9 October 1953, Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
1 January 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
February 14, 2017
Part "Eraserhead" and part "Naked Lunch," "Barton Fink" is like whitefish on sand.
January 02, 2011
Bizarre Hollywood dream factory. Teens only.
October 18, 2008
Again the Coens take familiar movie tropes and twist them into something new. This may be their most haunting movie.
April 19, 2008
Does cinema get any better than this?
November 06, 2007
This creepy satire is full of laughs and flaky twists, but by the end you may still be scratching your head.
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.
November 06, 2007
Scene after scene is filled with a ferocious strength and humor.
April 04, 2011
Goes off the deep end.
November 06, 2007
The film's period decor, mood lighting and artful camerawork are beautiful, at times thrilling, to look at.
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.
November 15, 2009
Resembles not the artist's churning mind but the filmmakers' conjoined colon
