Just finished watching the imported region free Blu Ray of Barton Fink. I absolutely think that the purchase of the set from the UK is worth every bit of extra wait time for it's arrival just for this one film. Not only is this the absolute closest that any Coen film gets to a horror film (in my mind it is a horror flick), it is also set during a time in Hollywood when writers were corralled like cattle at the behest of the human munching, career eating studio system...so, again, there are a lot of moments of dark shadows and brooding room shots. The blu ray hi-def does this justice. For example, when Barton is sitting at his typewriter in his room, the shadows cast on his shirt were always "noisy"--they didn't look really solid on DVD, on blu ray they are absolutely crisp. The blu ray also shows of the stark contrast between the dark, moody, brown and peeling world that Barton lives in, where it seems that the sun is never shining, and the bright world outside of this in the rich world of studio executives with light colored suits, fancy windows and state of the art (for the day) swimming pools. Every bit worth the wait and the price!
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