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
- Barton’s writer’s block
- a bit of a dissection of the final scene, including a super-bleak read from Dylan
- John Turturro’s performance, including this gem of a scene
- Barton’s 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)
Links & Mentions:
- the Wikipedia page on Barton Fink is a great read
- you can find Runout Records on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
- you can find Roozbeh’s radio program, The Heavy Early show here on CHRW
- the Runout Records Listening Party is on Thursday, July 14th from 7-8pm. Click here for more details
- the previous podcast Dylan mentions is our review of Galaxy Quest, found here
Dylan Clark-Moore is a podcast creator and blogger at NetFlakes. You can find him on Letterboxd and Twitter.
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