I think the appetite to watch Barton Fink was whetted by our recent watch of burn after reading,

which I'm still high off, honestly.

One of the best things I've watched in months.

I've been thinking about the last 10 or so minutes of that movie constantly since we saw it.

Yeah.

And this is one that I hadn't seen Barton think since I was in undergrad,

probably first year university, watching a DVD on my laptop. That's probably dating myself with that.

Rented it from the St. Michael's College Library at University of Toronto. I was interested

to watch this movie too, frankly because Jonathan Rosenbaum's review always stuck in my brain.

Reading it again today, I was actually surprised.

I didn't realize that he gave it three stars.

Like, I guess his thumb was up.

But I remember that it's sort of both Rosenbaum and Jay Hoberman, you know, two of the great critics of their era, kind of had a B in

their bonnet about the Cohen brothers. They regarded them as sort of snarky and not believing in

anything and that sort of thing. I was frankly kind of interested to stress test that opinion

with this movie, which, you know, this movie was acclaimed at the time. It won the Palm Door.

Tanked commercially, though. Yeah,

I think it had a couple of Oscar nominations, though. Michael Lerner was justly nominated for

Best Supporting Actor, so it was warmly received by discriminating audiences. Not the common man,

so much. But I was, but I do think in retrospect, just anecdotally, I feel like this one has sort of

fallen into a position, maybe sort of in the middle of their filmography in people's minds.

It's not one of the ones I hear mentioned first, and it's not one of the ones I hear mentioned last

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