Creative Lives is presented in memory of David Burr Gerrard and made possible by the generous support of his friends and family.
Presented in 35mm
Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a young playwright in New York in 1941 who enjoys an overnight success with a drama celebrating the common man. Hollywood takes notice and enlists him to write wrestling pictures for Wallace Beery. Barton Fink chronicles his struggle with writer’s block, with Hollywood, and with the neighbor in his hotel (John Goodman) who shows Barton something about the darker side of wrestling, and of life.
Winner of the prestigious Cannes Palme d’Or in 1991
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
"Gnomic, claustrophobic, hallucinatory, just plain weird, it is the kind of movie critics can soak up thousands of words analyzing and cinephiles can soak up at least three espressos arguing their way through."
"A triumph for the offbeat, grimly funny brothers, it reveals in its mythic fashion the vagaries of the creative process that plague every artist."
Q&A with Writer and Film Critic Jordan Hoffman
Thursday, Mar. 6 2025, 7:00
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
This film is part of the Creative Lives series.
Creative Lives is presented in memory of David Burr Gerrard and made possible by the generous support of his friends and family.
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