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Barton Fink (1991)
Barton: Have you read the Bible, Pete?Pete: Holy Bible?Barton: Yeah.Pete: Yeah, I think so.Anyway, I've heard about it.
Every time I re-watch Barton Fink I come to love it more and more, until my last re-watch a couple of months ago it cemented it firmly in my top three Coens movies (alongside Fargo and A Serious Man). It's so funny and strange and ultimately terrifying and the relationship between Turturro and John Goodman ranks among the greatest in any Coens movie. Most of all I am always, every time, surprised by it -- it always brings something new out to contemplate. Just a brilliant film. And with that we wish John Turturro a happy 68th birthday today! I am a couple of episodes behind (I just watched the episode pictured below last night) but I did finally start watching the new season of Severance and his character of Irving remains my favorite character on the show by leaps and bounds -- when do we are we gonna get John an Oscar? He's seriously overdue. Let's get on that. What are your favorite Turturros?
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Definitely my favorite Coen bros movie. Others would probably be Inside Llewyn Davis and Big Lebowski. Loved A Serious Man and that's due for a rewatch. I feel like Buster Scruggs got a lot of middling reactions but I think about the Tom Waits sequence all the time, it's one of the more beautiful things they've ever filmed.
Oh I need to rewatch Scruggs too, you're right. I only saw it when it came out -- it's seriously due for a rewatch. Funny enough if I had a physical media copy of it I'd think of it more often, but since it's consigned to the depths of the Netflix algorithm I forget about it. Damn them, they better get Criterion on this one.
Favorite Turturro? THE NIGHT OF just popped into my head, so let’s go with that.
The Man Who Wasn't There is my favourite with Barton Fink as runner up with Goodman so deserving of the 91 Supporting Oscar.
Miller’s Crossing, which is also my fav Coens…Turturro was already nomination worthy in 1990, really a pity Ampas has been so “distant”, same with John Goodman, memorable Turturro’s co-star in Barton Fink
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