Barton Fink (1991)

Barton Fink (1991)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 26, 2000Writer's Block/Paranoia Black Comedy
Hollywood noir from the Coen Brothers, this takes us inside the crumbling mental state of a screenwriter in the 1930s. Like a David Lynch remake of Day of the Locust, this comes rich in the Coens' black uncomfortable humour

Deconstructing Harry (1997)

Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Rating: ★★★½
Apr 17, 1999Writer's Self-Analysis Comedy
A Woody Allen film in which he plays a writer on his way to receive an award. The film drifts in and out of a series of vignettes and stories he has written, including a number of fantastic interludes, with highly amusing effect

To Rome with Love (2012)

To Rome with Love (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 15, 2012Quartet of Rome-Set Comedy Tales
Another film amid Woody Allen's European renaissance, four tales all set around the gorgeously shot location of Rome. The stories are on the slight side and it is lesser Allen but there is great casting and moments where Allen is on good form