"Barton Fink" (1991) Directed by The Coen Brothers

“I’ll show you the life of a mind”.

Number 3 in my personal all time favourite Coen Brothers film is this absolute classic. An all star cast again, however it’s the two central performances from a stunning John Turturro as troubled writer “Barton Fink” and his erstwhile friend “Charlie Meadows”, a performance of sublime intrigue and perfection from John Goodman. Before Charlie’s introduction we see the torn life of Barton Fink, standing backstage as his play is drawing to a close with the audience baying for the writer and warmly showing their appreciation, Barton takes his bow. But he looks strangely unfulfilled. More appreciation follows and with the unfulfillment growing, Barton is invited to Hollywood to write larger, bigger productions.

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The above opening paragraphs are taken from my original spoiler free review of "Barton Fink" penned and published over a decade ago, transferred to my Medium blog site and which can now be read in full and for free via my Substack blog site and original updated article linked immediately below. Also linked below is my original opus blog article on the cinematic career of the Coen Brothers.

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/barton-fink-1991-82153ae74e00

https://medium.com/@stephenblackford561/the-world-according-to-the-coen-brothers-f033b11d957d

This spoiler free review is also integral to volume 1 of my 7 volumes of "essential film reviews collection". Currently only available as an e-book on Amazon, all 7 volumes are priced at £4.99 each however, should you have an Amazon Kindle "Unlimited" package you can read each and every exhaustive volume full of spoiler free reviews for free:

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