10 Great Movies About Hollywood

The Coen Brothers strike again, this time with one of their much earlier creations - and one of their biggest cinematic achievements.

Barton Fink follows the titular character (as played by John Turturro), a playwright who is sent to Hollywood to write a B-movie script. Suffering from severe writers' block due his inexperience in the movie industry, Fink befriends his peculiar neighbour (John Goodman) and becomes accidentally embroiled in a murder.

Heavily influenced by the work of Alfred Hitchcock and full of unsettling and dark imagery, Barton Fink manages to tell a sombre and hopeless story whilst being very funny and endlessly exciting thanks to its brilliant dialogue and tight script.

It's a genre bending cult classic, and one of the Coen Brothers' most revered and celebrated works, but under all the gross-out violence, the tales of murder and sex and the general ambiguity of the story, it's also a very well-realised film about the difficulties and eccentricities of Hollywood filmmaking.