Wow! Such a good movie.

hyped garbage

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Again, this is a very good Coen films. Its a funny, well written comedy about a struggling screenwriter who moves to los angeles. The actors are all great, both convincing and laughable. John Goodmans character is by far the most interesting. The strange hotel staff (including Steve Buscemi) are also very funny. Its also a very original film. My only complaint would be that the jokes are a bit infrequent and dont make you burst out laughing, like in Fargo and Raising Arizona. A good film tough. 8/10

This is probably one of the most hermetic, personal and autobiographical films that the Coen Brothers have ever presented. Many people find it boring. I understand and I can even agree but I also believe that I understand, at least in part, what the directors wanted to tell us.There is a lot of common between the Coen's and Barton Fink, an idealistic intellectual Jew who idolizes ordinary people and, therefore, cannot see how stupid they are (the Coen's can). Suddenly, Fink is hired to write the script for a mediocre B movie about pugilism. The kind of movie ordinary people pay to see even today. Of course the script, by an intellectual full of ideals, would never be useful in these kind of film because Fink didn't know how to adapt himself to the task. He is far above ordinary men to realize what they want to see and that is why he would never please them. This is not just with Fink: today, the majority of people don't like theatre or art because it has become too elitist and intellectual to appeal the masses (taking theatre and the arts as an example, we can still think of classical music or even cinema).From this point of view, this film is deeply intelligent: it starts out as a very intellectual and hermetic film which will make the most idiotic audience flee from the theater and, then, it gradually becomes more "normal" through action and violence. Even so, it always contains some intellectuality, through elements and moments that the film never bother to explain (the importance and content of the box that Fink receives near the end, for example, a thing that left me confused and curious). Its as if the film, even making an effort to adapt itself, never ceased to be what it really is. In the midst of it all, I enjoyed the work of Turturro, which gave life to the protagonist. He knew how to make his character naive and dreamy. Fink sometimes seems so oblivious to the world around him that he seems to be stoned. What counts for him is the world he has inside his head. Very interesting, but difficult to swallow for commercial audiences.

"Barton Fink" is the kind of film that takes the viewer on a journey. Through the Hellish world of Hollywood, the Coen Brothers craft one of their finest films; an exploration of everything from loneliness to sexuality. A film that requires multiple viewings and different perspectives; a complex work of genius that makes me laugh and cry each time I see it."Fink" is certainly on the Coen brothers' most ingenious tricks, an intentionally weird and perplexing film that has remained one of the strangest and darkest American movies of all time. Using indescribably bleak cinematography, haunting sound design, and often surrealist imagery, the Coen's create a Lynchian dystopia populated by greed and confusion. Often laugh out loud funny and occasionally disturbing, "Barton Fink" is a cinematic treasure chest waiting to be opened.

Barton Fink is movie that proves yet again all you need to do is throw nonsense in a blender, do it with style and pretend it means something, and people will eat it up. I'm no stranger to symbolic and surreal movies (Eraserhead is one of my very favorites), but this is something (like Barton himself in the film) that bears no substance and is purely superficial. What makes it so much worse, and most ironic, is that the movie attempts to disprove that in its message but ultimately ends up being just as much a part of it (if not moreso due to its aforementioned intention and execution).It's not surprising given its reputation among so-called """cinephiles""" but it's all the more frustrating because I fell for it. I admit, I was thoroughly engrossed by the film, largely due to its beautiful set design and unconventional narrative structure. Not to mention, it has some good bits of black humor as well, but beyond that there's nothing there. And in the end, it left me feeling dumb for having played along.