Movie Diary 3/12/2024

Barton Fink (Joel Coen, 1991). A re-visit to a film that looks very tidy, but without the density of the Coens’ general run. It doesn’t keep repaying you, I mean. When the two fast-talking detectives (a Coen specialty, as Ethan has recently reminded us in Drive-Away Dolls) come into the scene, it’s a relief. Despite Turturro’s prominence, John Goodman owns this one.

Wham! (Chris Smith, 2023). A documentary about those chaps. Let he who is without sin cast the first etc.