Tag: Barton Fink

  • How No Country For Old Men Landed In The Coen Brothers’ Lap

    How No Country For Old Men Landed In The Coen Brothers’ Lap

    Throughout their career, the Coen Brothers have excelled at writing verbose characters and snappy dialogue. You have the screwball back-and-forth in “The Hudsucker Proxy,” John Goodman’s folksy salesman in “Barton Fink,” and Frances McDormand’s overbearing gossip in “Raising Arizona,” to name just a few examples. There are exceptions, of course. Billy Bob Thornton’s smalltown barber…

  • The Funniest Fan Theory The Coen Brothers Have Ever Heard

    The Funniest Fan Theory The Coen Brothers Have Ever Heard

    The Coen Brothers are often cagey about the meaning of their films, and in the case of “Barton Fink” — their uncategorizable 1991 film starring John Turturro and John Goodman — perhaps there is no grand unifying message to it. That hasn’t stopped critics and academics from analyzing the movie to death, and there are…