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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: OSCARS '91: Barton Fink
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, alcohol, drinking, racism, antisemitism, fascism, Nazis, gunshots.
We continue our Oscars ‘91 series this week with yet another dark movie about Hollywood. Though this version has a twist: it’s the Coen brothers, and they’re making things incredibly weird, as they’re known to do. For a movie written about writer’s block by two writers dealing with writer’s block, it happens to be a fairly decent movie. It’s just that the Coens hadn’t struck that balance of diggi...