Stylized in art-deco fashion, it seems to be full of residents and transients, yet Fink sees none except his sixth-floor neighbor, Charlie Meadows (John Goodman) a door-to-door insurance salesman. In Los Angeles Fink moves into the weird, seemingly abandoned Hotel Earle. ![]() But with the influence of his agent, the money beckons and Barton goes. When he is offered serious money to move to Hollywood to become a script-writer for Capital Pictures he at first refuses. It is a huge success, being appreciated by both the general audience and the critics. Indeed, after this, the Cannes organizers decreed that future films could win only two awards at most.īarton Fink opens in 1941 at the backstage of a Broadway play where playwright Barton Fink (Turturro) is watching the debut of his new play. But Barton Fink achieved the distinction of winning the top three awards at the Cannes Film Festival: Best Actor (John Turturro), Best Director, and Palm D'Or (best picture). The Coens have won the biggest prize, the Best Film Oscar, for No Country. But it resists a simple narrative resolution and so is ambiguous and frustrating. It starts as a drama with touches of comedy and ends as a surreal film noir. Barton Fink, their fourth film, defies simple genre identification. They have made film noir ( Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There), comedy ( Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski), bleak crime ( No Country for Old Men), even romantic comedy ( Intolerable Cruelty). They write their own scripts they direct the films and they usually edit their own work under pseudonyms. ![]() The Coen brothers are probably the most versatile film-makers working today.
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