#64 - Barton Fink: An Unconventional Movie About the Conventions of Movie-Making

The NetFlakes Podcast

The movie: Barton Fink The guest: Proprietor of Runout Records, Roozbeh Showleh Among the topics we get into: -the lasting images from the film -the setting, based on stereotypes and images from the 1940s -writers block -a bit of a dissection of the final scene, including a super-bleak read from Dylan -the lead performance by John Turturro -Barton and his ignorant relationship with the common man -watching formative texts years after adolescence and the development of tastes -the difference between reference (Coens) and borrowing wholesale (Tarantino)