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Barton Fink
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Genre | Comedy |
Format | NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Anamorphic |
Contributor | Donna Isaacson, Richard Portnow, Ben Barenholtz, John Lyons, Meagen Fay, Michael Lerner, Joel Coen, Jana Marie Hupp, Jon Polito, Tony Shalhoub, Darwyn Swalve, Harry Bugin, Anthony Gordon, Ethan Coen, Jim Pedas, John Turturro, David Warrilow, Johnny Judkins, Bill Durkin, Christopher Murney, John Mahoney, Steve Buscemi, William Preston Robertson, Gayle Vance, Lance Davis, I.M. Hobson, Judy Davis, Robert Beecher, Ted Pedas, Jack Denbo, Max Grodenchik, Isabelle Townsend, John Goodman See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 56 minutes |
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Product Description
A perplexing and fascinating mix of psychological drama and black comedy, Joel and Ethan Coen's award-winning film stars John Turturro as Barton Fink, a '40s New York playwright hired by a Hollywood studio to write screenplays. Fink's inability to complete the assignment, the rundown hotel he stays in, and a talkative insurance salesman from the next room all play a part in a cinematic descent into Hell. With John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner. 116 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English; interviews; deleted scenes; theatrical trailer.
Product details
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.93 ounces
- Director : Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Anamorphic
- Run time : 1 hour and 56 minutes
- Release date : August 22, 2017
- Actors : John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney
- Subtitles: : English
- Producers : Jim Pedas, Ethan Coen, Bill Durkin, Ben Barenholtz, Ted Pedas
- Studio : Kl Studio Classics
- ASIN : B071GB3P5P
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #29,736 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,981 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
- #2,766 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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It is 1941 in New York, and the well-meaning but insufferably pretentious playwright Barton Fink is pretending not to enjoy the success of his first major work. Hollywood comes calling through his agent and, with a brilliant cut to a Pacific Ocean wave crashing on a boulder, we suddenly find him (and ourselves) on the West Coast. Barton Fink checks in to the hot, decaying Art Deco hell of the Hotel Earle ("A day or a lifetime" reads the stationery), and begins a descent into the nightmare world of Joel and Ethan Coen.
Writer's block. Bombastic studio heads. Type-A movie producers. Alcoholic novelists (and their muses). Serial killers. All of these elements converge in a tightly woven plot by turns hilarious and unnerving. Is it a horror film with laughs? Or a comedy with scenes of real terror? In the Coens' typically understated style, Barton Fink balances on the knife's edge.
A clue to where it's going comes when Barton (John Turturro) becomes a suspect in the murder of Audrey (Judy Davis), assistant and lover to alcoholic novelist W.P. Mayhew (John Mahoney). The two L.A. police detectives who question him are named Deutsch and Mastrionotti - German and Italian. Deadpan send-ups of stock film noir characters, the cops don't even try to disguise their anti-Semitism ("Fink. That's a Jewish name, isn't it?...I didn't think this dump was restricted!"). Coincidence, given that the story is set on the eve of America's involvement in World War II? I think not.
John Goodman is outstanding as Charlie Meadows/Madman Mundt, the real serial killer. He's Barton's WASPish, working-man doppleganger, and is both endearing and malevolent. He may represent America itself - the oafish do-gooder with a dark side, who both rescues and oppresses Barton Fink. By the time Meadows' true nature is revealed in the stunning climax, the film's allegory seems to crystallize.
Or...maybe not. The central question - did Meadows/Mundt really kill Audrey - is never fully addressed. Neither is the other disturbing loose end - just what is in that box Barton carries around at the end? Audrey's head? I think so. But Barton Fink's ultimate meaning, despite the seeming clarity of its symbolism, remains just out of reach. You can brush it with your fingertips, almost grasp it. Then it slips away, demanding another viewing, another visit to the Hotel Earle.
For people who enjoy this sort of thing - and you know who you are - it's a no-brainer. Buy it.
Charlie is a mysterious character, unctuous, larger than life, earnest, in need of being loved, of telling his stories to anyone who will lend an ear, but his hotel neighbor Barton, too pompous to listen, insults Charlie with consequences that you'll have to see in the film.
Without giving away the plot, let me just say this film is a fable about the need to listen to the common man. It is also a film that skewers the quest for fame and money. The film has spiritual cousins, one being Mulholland Drive, another film about the tragedy that results from blind ambition and deals people make with the devil.
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Gegen eine leichte Rezeption sperrt sich auch der Voraussetzungsreichtum. Da sind Filmfiguren, die realen Vorbildern nachempfunden sind (u. a. David O. Selznick, William Faulkner), die man kennen und über deren Rolle in Hollywood man Bescheid wissen muss, um die Pointen zu erfassen. Und da ist die zeitgenössische Frage, ob Hollywood ein Ort ist, an dem auch gesellschaftlich relevante Filmkunst geschaffen werden kann. Auf diese Frage hatte Preston Sturges mit »Sullivans Reisen« 1941 (also in dem Jahr, in dem »Barton Fink« spielt) eine negative Antwort gegeben. Hat man all das nicht wenigstens vage im Hinterkopf, bleibt der Film, schätze ich, eher unzugänglich, obwohl es immer noch in reichlicher Menge virtuose Erzählmomente gibt, an denen man sich freuen kann.
Hat man jedoch seine Hausaufgaben gemacht, entfaltet der Film für einen eine komplexe Geschichte über jüdische Identität. Und die Coens gehen dabei bis an die Schmerzgrenze, wenn sie den jovialen Massenmörder mit deutschen Wurzeln (grandios: John Goodman) am Ende exakt die Worte sprechen lassen, mit denen Barton Fink am Anfang seine eigene Motivation und Position beschrieben hatte.