The movie: Barton Fink

The guest: Proprietor of Runout Records, Roozbeh Showleh

Among the topics we get into:

-the lasting images from the film
-the setting, based on stereotypes and images from the 1940s
-Barton's writer's block
-a bit of a dissection of the final scene, including a super-bleak read from Dylan
-John Turturro's performance
-Barton's ignorant relationship with "the common man"
-watching formative texts years after adolescence and the development of tastes
-the difference between reference (Coens) and borrowing wholesale (Tarantino)