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Mayor-esque mogul Jack Lipnick (Michael Lerner) is writing the script for rote wrestling feature, a subject that is about as far removed from FinkвЂ™s wheelhouse as can be imagined. His first gig working for blowhard, Louis B. Initially, the arrogant writer balks at the idea until he realizes the pay is more than okay.

The film stars Turturro as Fink, a hots**t playwright who is wooed to Hollywood in the 1940s to pen screenplays for film. This is a film that demands multiple re-watches and much discussion. Which makes the sumptuous looking movieвЂ™s (this was the first feature shot by the great Roger Deakins) appearance on Blu-ray via Kino Lorber that much more vital.

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Still, itвЂ™s hard to lock down exactly what the movie is save for the fact that itвЂ™s a Coen Brothers film, strange and beautiful and here pushed deep into the realms of the phantasmagorical and the surreal.Д«arton Fink won the Palm DвЂ™Or at Cannes and nabbed Joel Coen and Turturro best director and actor brass, but flopped hard at the box office and has faded somewhat into obscurity. But aesthetically, production designer Dennis CassnerвЂ™s sets are straight our of Suspiria, the filmвЂ™s skid row claustrophobia straight out of Eraserhead (as is star John TurturroвЂ™s hair) and the psychological meltdown (mirrored by the gooey melting walls in the title characterвЂ™s hotel room) is straight out The Tenant. Well, the 1991 film canвЂ™t traditionally be labeled a horror picture, but really, none of the CoenвЂ™s films fit easily into any definition of genre.

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And the fact that its a full blown horror movie makes these statements all the sweeter. And with that, IвЂ™d say that Barton Fink is not only superior to the mammoth MillerвЂ™s Crossing, itвЂ™s one of the brothersвЂ™ best movies period. As is sometimes the case with art and life, the work we donвЂ™t over-plan, the things that just leak out of us organically, are often the most interesting and memorable. Legend has it that while The Coen Brothers were in the process of writing their epic gangster drama MillerвЂ™s Crossing, they hit a wall of extreme writerвЂ™s block and, instead of just sloshing through it, they took a detour and penned Barton Fink, in essence a film about a writer with that dreaded block who figuratively goes to Hell in order to unlock himself. Barton Fink: The Coen BrothersвЂ™ 1991 masterpiece is coming to Blu-ray from Kino Lorber