95. The Coen Brothers Brothers: Barton Fink

Small Beans

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2018

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Join Michael Swaim, Abe Epperson, and presumably Milhouse Van Houten and Nelson Muntz in a thoughtful discussion of the Coens' treatise on the act of screenwriting itself. Get ready to finally understand that sink drain shot!

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0:00.0	You're going to be. Barton, think, think, think, Barton think, Barton Fink. Barton Fink.
0:34.0	Barton Fink.
0:36.0	Welcome to Cohen Brothers,
0:38.0	where myself Michael Swam and my good pal over there.
0:41.0	Hey, Bepperson. Talk about Barton Fink every episode. No, but we've been very
0:48.0	excited for this one. This is the fourth episode of Cohen Brothers brothers where we will cover the fourth
0:54.7	Cohen Brothers film.
0:56.6	It hails from 1991.
0:58.7	Yep, and it's called Fart and Bink.
1:00.6	Fart and Bink.
1:02.0	Oh, fuck Oh fuck!
1:02.7	Fok! All right, we got to redo this whole thing from the top.
1:06.1	Fart and Bing. No, no, no.
1:10.4	I think considered widely considered their least accessible film maybe until a serious man
1:15.4	It's pretty inside baseball because it's about a writer
1:20.4	Who's the toast of New York and he gets invited to Hollywood and it sucks the life
1:27.4	out of him. Yes, but it's super artsy and artistically ambitious and whereas we discussed last episode on the Miller's
1:38.3	Crossing episode that was their attempt to show that they can work within the studio system.
1:43.2	This is literally a movie they made while taking a break from that.
1:47.7	So imagine this as them indulging themselves with a breath of fresh air and like getting as artsy as they fucking want.
1:55.0	Yeah, right, I mean we're not getting we're not just Miller's Crossing filmmakers.
2:00.0	We're not just gonna make gangster movies, right?
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