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Set in 1941, intellectual New York playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) accepts an offer to write movie scripts in L.A. He finds himself with writer's block when required to do a B-movie script. His neighbor (John Goodman) tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 26, 2022 - 22 comments

From the director of Amélie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the title character is a 10-year-old boy from Montana whose mother (Helena Bonham-Carter) is fascinated with insects and whose father (Callum Keith Rennie) is a cowboy. T.S. Spivet's experiments with trying to invent a perpetual motion machine result in a call from the Smithsonian Institute. [more inside]
posted by larrybob on Sep 24, 2019 - 3 comments

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand. [more inside]
posted by los pantalones del muerte on Sep 23, 2018 - 4 comments

After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, writer and exterminator Bill Lee (Peter Weller) accidentally murders his wife (Judy Davis) and becomes involved in a secret government plot in the Interzone, a port town in North Africa. Or, perhaps, he’s wandering the streets in a drugged haze. Or both. Per the MPAA, “Rated R for heavy drug content, bizarre eroticism, and language”
posted by Going To Maine on Mar 27, 2017 - 7 comments