The Coen Brothers Reporatory Role Call 1984-2008
film babble blog — In anticipation of the new Coen Brothers film BURN AFTER READING (opening next week!) I decided it was time to update the listing of their stock company of able bodied actors. Let’s get right to it starting with: ...

Best of the Fests: Toronto Begins
Movie Dearest — ... Noah Wyle. Rachel Getting Married: Anne Hathaway plays against type as an out-of-rehab drama queen at her sister's wedding in Jonathan Demme's intimate family portrait. (Watch the trailer here.) Religulous: Bill Maher's sure-to-be-controversial documentary finds him traveling the globe, talking with religious types about their beliefs. Other notable titles include: Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading, Steven Soderbergh’s two-part Che, Stephan Elliott's ...

Vicarious viewing
pullquote — ... Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) and his long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, FLASH OF GENIUS tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win. Wednesday, September 10 at 7:30pm AMC Boston Common Passes are required. click here to download your pass. Then on Thursday, Burn After Reading sneaks at the Fenway, again FREE. [And not to worry, the Sox are off , so ...

2 Days!!!
my new plaid pants — ... I am officially moist in my down-there area over Burn After Reading, y'all. I cannot wait for this movie. Yesterday morning I was laying on the floor of my living-room post-jog and stretching and a new commercial for the movie came on TV and I actually busted into a fit of uncontrollable giggling over one of the faces Brad Pitt pulls. I lay there for minutes, unable to stop. If this thing is half as good as the trailer, it'll be a homerun. Anybody else squirming with outlandish expectations? ...

Burn After Reading
The Reviewer — Rated: R Running Time: 96 Minutes Year: 2008 Nudity: None One Sentence: Not the best ever, but still pretty great.  Such expectation for this one.  People are glowing after No Country For Old Men and everyone is hopeing and wondering if the Coen Brothers can pull off two amazing movies in a row.  With the cast that is lined up for this one, I think everyone is really thinking it might happen.  I was hopeful of anything close to Fargo and thought the trailer really made it look great.  The movie came out ...

The Latest in Theaters: He-Men and the Women
Movie Dearest — ... Burn After Reading: Joel and Ethan Coen, fresh off their own Oscar wins for No Country for Old Men, have rounded up their own crew of Oscar winners (George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton) and nominees (Brad Pitt, John Malkovich) for this goofy crime caper. ...

Film Fan Fridays for Friday September 12, 2008!
Movie Moxie — ... genre film festival based in Austin, TX, USA will be online streaming 5 shorts and 5 features from the festival for free between September 14-20/08. Friday September 12, 2008 Releases Burn After Reading Writers/Dirs: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen (No Country For Old Men, The Lady Killers) Cast: Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich, Richard Jenkins USA Official Film Site, IMDb Page, Trailer Trailer spoiler free until halfway point Righteous ...

Burn After Reading Movie Review
Atomicpopcorn — ... Cutting to the chase: If you like the Coen Brothers previous works of No Country for Old Men, or even O Brother Where Art Thou? than you will find this to be a along the same lines. If you don’t it may make you laugh as it did me. But it also will surprise you as it is not at all what the trailers have shown it to be. ...

BURN AFTER READING - The Film Babble Blog Review
film babble blog — BURN AFTER READING (Dirs. Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 2008) You can’t get any more A-list than the cast of this movie. George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton are Oscar winners, John Malkovich has been nominated more than once, and Brad Pitt is, well, Brad Pitt (yes he’s been nominated too). Mix in a couple of the most acclaimed character actors working today -Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under, THE VISITOR) and J.K. Simmons (J. Jonah Jameson in the ...

Frances McDormand Will Have Her Revenge
Film Experience Blog — ... saddled with? Let's look at how they've envisioned McDormand over the years: (Top Row, left to right: Abby, Blood Simple (1984); Dot, Raising Arizona (1987); The Mayor's Secretary, Miller's Crossing (1990). Bottom Row, left to right: Marge Gunderson, Fargo (1996); Doris Crane, The Man Who Wasn't There (2001); Linda Litzke, Burn After Reading (2008)) Ya know, save poor Dot and that dead possum on her ...

Burn After Reading Review
The Movie Blog — ... Plot synopsis from IMDB: A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it. ...

Burn After Reading (2008)
The Long Take — ... Burn After Reading is comparable to nothing else that the cinematic art has had to offer so far. I have went through the list of the movies I have seen and even though that list includes a lot of absurd and quirky comedies, there is nothing I can relate this latest flick from the Coen brothers to, save for ...

SPIES LIKE THEM
Antagony & Ecstasy — [image] I'd dearly love to spring out with the ol' contrarianism and declare Burn After Reading to be a better film than No Country for Old Men , but I really don't believe I can defend that argument. So instead, let me just stick to the easy praise: Burn After Reading is easily the funniest film by Joel and Ethan Coen since The Big Lebowski ten years ago, and generally speaking feels more like their old stuff than anything else they've done in that decade. Tonally and narratively, Burn plays essentially like a hybrid of Raising Arizona and ...

Sunday Notes
The Chutry Experiment — ... Caught Burn after Reading Friday night, the first time I’ve had a chance to get out to the theater in a few weeks.  There are already plenty of reviews out there, so for now, I’ll just say that I enjoyed it quite a bit.  The satire of DC spy culture was pretty amusing, and Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand as a couple of clueless gym workers were very funny. ...

REVIEW: Burn After Reading (B+)
Getafilm — While my wish for a Coen Bros. sighting/introduction (they're here filming A Serious Man) at the promo screening of Burn After Reading last week was unfilled, my expectations for a distinctly Coenesque comedy were easily met: bizarre characters, dark humor, and a downward spiraling story. ...

I KNEW NORMA SHEARER. NORMA SHEARER WAS A FRIEND OF MINE. MS RYAN, YOU'RE NO NORMA SHEARER.
Antagony & Ecstasy — ... sidelines and look sexy; while women like to look at other women wearing expensive clothes. But no matter how different men and women might be on the surface, we're all expected to be tremendous idiots who'll gobble up whatever pablum the studios crap out, and be grateful for the pandering. We've also learned this weekend that, as ever, great films and great roles know no gender, and the best films are the ones that trust their audience with the most sophistication; and the fact that Burn After Reading won the weekend box office is extraordinarily comforting to me. ...

Keep it like a secret
pullquote — ... darkened theater and different scenes took place, I realized that I had seen the movie before. It was originally released in 2007. Believe me, that didn't spoil the experience at all. The scenes I recalled became even more meaningful. One of the heartbreaking scenes was to have Francois baptized in order to help save him from the Nazis and someone saying, "Don't tell grandpa." (In French, with English subtitles.) But when it comes to the Coen brothers' latest, Ed sez fugeddaboutit. Burn After Reading This intended comedy, written, produced and directed by the gifted brothers ...

Critic After Dark — ... The Coens' Burn After Reading (2008) by any standard is a letdown from their previous film, their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's ...

Review: Burn After Reading (2008)
Matte Havoc :: The Independent Film Commentator — ... (2007) they have chosen to return to their usual style of black comedy with the film Burn After Reading (2008). However, before I really delve into my review for their new thrilling contribution I wanted to draw awareness to the odd correlation between the film's theatrical poster and it's similar design with the design for the theatrical poster for Alfred Hitchcock's classic film ...

Weekend Wrap Up: The Best View is Lakeview
Intermission at Work — ... 1 Lakeview Terrace (2008) $15.6M $15.6M 2 Burn After Reading (2008) $11.3M $36.4M 3 ...

Eagle Eye -- the review's up!
FilmChat — ... 's review of the Coen brothers' Burn after Reading, a spy-movie spoof of sorts that I found amusing in places but didn't care for as much as he did. And one paragraph of his review in particular jumped out at me: ...

Weekend Wrap Up: Eagle Eye is Tops
Intermission at Work — ... 4 Fireproof (2008) $6.51M $6.51M 5 Burn After Reading (2008) $6.11M $45.5M 6 ...

UPdates
Shea of the Dead — ... more week. I feel like my life's been like a freight train and it's building more speed every day. I have been reading a lot lately since they let me out of the cube. I read "The Road", "The Talisman", "Salem's Lot", "The Shack", and about a quarter of the way through "Shadow Land" by Peter Straub. After being in Europe so much, I wish I could sell my car and get a scooter. Brad Pitt and J.K. Simmons were the only good parts of Burn After Reading... both of their roles were fleeting. Why am I so excited about ...

Reel Thoughts: Burn, Baby, Burn
Movie Dearest — ... If you enjoyed visiting Fargo with the Coen Brothers, and want to take a darkly funny vacation from No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading is a Washington DC-based delight. While not as effortlessly layered as Fargo, Burn After Reading features a fantastic cast who are clearly having a ball. Like Fargo, Burn After Reading concerns a dumb crime perpetrated by less than bright criminals. Unlike Fargo (or No Country for Old Men, for that matter), there isn’t a moral compass ...

Weekend Wrap Up: Chihuahuas Take it Home
Intermission at Work — ... 6 Lakeview Terrace (2008) $4.56M $32.2M 7 Burn After Reading (2008) $4.12M $51.7M 8 ...

This Week on Australian Screens
Stale Popcorn — ... Burn After Reading - I very much want to see this followup to the Coen Bros' Oscar-successful No Country for Old Men. Starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich. ...

AN ARGUMENT THAT HAS NEVER BEEN MADE IN SUCH DETAIL, OR WITH SUCH CARE
Antagony & Ecstasy — ... light on incident and heavy on setting up the pieces; not unlike watching people playing Risk, and in much the same way I was ready for it to be over hours before it ended. In principal, this could have been a great look into the culture of the CIA and how much of its policy is nothing but the egomania of men sitting at their desks in Langley, except that Scott is much too detached from the material to breathe much life into it (that, and the fact that the Coen brother's recent Burn After Reading has made it somewhat difficult for any serious-minded spy film to avoid seeming ...

5 Off My Head - Brad Be 45
my new plaid pants — ... Jeffrey Goines, 12 Monkeys "You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules." Tyler Durden, Fight Club "Now, a question of etiquette - as I pass, do I give you the ass or the crotch?" Chad Feldheimer, Burn After Reading "Appearances can be... deceptive." J.D., Thelma & Louise "I may be an outlaw, darlin', but you're the one ...

Win 'Burn After Reading' on DVD
Get The Big Picture — The latest comedy from the Coen Brothers, Burn After Reading, is out today on DVD. The third in their "Idiot Comedy" trilogy with ...

2008: THE YEAR IN MOVIES
Antagony & Ecstasy — ... decided that my Top 10 will follow the Academy's rules for eligibility. Since that bumped my list of options from about 170 to about 225, I've also taken the liberty of extending my Top 20-including-runners-up to a Top 30. I no longer see the point in limiting oneself to just ten movies - living a life in praise of the cinema should know no bounds) Top 15 1. WALL-E 2. The Fall 3. Happy-Go-Lucky 4. My Winnipeg 5. Flight of the Red Balloon 6. Burn After Reading 7. A Christmas Tale 8. The Dark Knight 9. The Argentine ...

Count the F-Bombs in 'Burn After Reading'
Get The Big Picture — I watched one of my favorite 2008 flicks again over the holidays, the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading. ...

The Top Dozen Films of the Year
Film Experience Blog — ... years old for a very very long time. She's both the love interest and the monster in the haunting horror flick Let the Right One In. Director Tomas Alfredson obviously has filmmaking in his blood (his dad, brother and girlfriend are also in the business) and his breakout hit pulses with memorable creepy imagery and smart directorial choices, especially in its first half... READ THE REST for thoughts on Burn After Reading, A Christmas Tale, The Class, ...

More of the Best of Ought-Eight
Termite Art — ... in film, but in case you missed it and can't summon the strength in your index finger to click the link, here's my top ten: 1. My Winnipeg 2. Rachel Getting Married 3. The Dark Knight 4. Wendy and Lucy 5. The Wrestler 6. Milk 7. Let the Right One In 8. Doubt 9. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father 10. A Christmas Tale Honorable Mention: The Bank Job, Burn After Reading, Chicago 10, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Encounters ...

Discuss: The Comedies of 2009
Cinematical — With the R-rated comedy becoming one of the hottest trends of the past couple years (thanks, in part, to a dude named Judd Apatow), we're starting to see a bunch more creative, down-to-earth (albeit foul-mouthed) comedies hit theaters -- with some, like Tropic Thunder, Burn After Reading and Knocked Up, fighting for awards consideration. But what will 2009 bring? Are we on a similar path as both 2007 and 2008, or will the new year bring back the boring, familiar plot threads and idiotic characters? Here's what we're ...

Cinecast Episode 108 - The Privilege Stick
Row Three — ... ), Happy-Go-Lucky, The Reader, The Dark Knight, Man on Wire, The Sky Crawlers, My Blueberry Nights, Wall E, Tears for Sale, Vinyan. - -forgot to mention: Burn After Reading Honorary Diane Lane worst movies of the year: Nights in the Rodanthe (prepare to vomit): Untraceable (Saw 9 meets The Net): DVD Pick(s) for Tuesday, January 6th: Kurt: Eden Lake Woman on the Beach Blu-Ray The Last Emperor Serenity DVD Andrew: Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.0 Woman on the Beach Blu-Ray Pineapple Express Serenity DVD ...

Writers Guild Nominations
Film Experience Blog — Words. I love them. And if you're reading maybe you do, too. Or do I provide too many photoshop goodies to for any wordy appeal. Never mind. Blogger has decided photos are off limits today. No illustrations for you. The Writers Guild have announced their nominations for this film year and they go like so... Original Screenplay Burn After Reading, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Milk, Dustin Lance Black Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen The Visitor, Tom ...

Best Most Editing
Film Experience Blog — ... is as tough as Sigourney Weaver in "Ripley" mode. So Walker probably won't mind me saying how I think it's batshit crazy to leave out Burn After Reading if you have a whole best editing in a comedy category, you know?

2008 OSCAR NOMINATION PREDICTIONS
Antagony & Ecstasy — ... , by Martin McDonagh I don't buy the recent buzz die-off for Rachel whatsoever. Burn After Reading would be the second alternate. Best Adapted Screenplay ...

Bradley Whitford, Richard Jenkins enter Whedon’s Cabin in the Woods
cinemarealm.com — ... Whedon co-wrote the feature with another familiar face from the Buffy and Angel ‘verse, Drew Goddard, whose credits also include Alias, Lost and Cloverfield. Cabin will at the same time be Goddard’s directorial debut. Richard Jenkins, best known from Six Feet Under, recently appeared in a couple of award nominated films: The Visitor and Burn After Reading, while Bradley Whitford (The West ...

IF I RAN THE OSCARS
Antagony & Ecstasy — ... Costume Design, Art Direction and Sound Editing - and it's hard to complain about either Actor, save that it's boring), so as my parting shot, and since it doesn't require me to do anything, I herewith present what the Oscars would look like if I were God, and could bend them to my will. Hopefully, tomorrow will bring with my careful chosen musings on Paul Blart: Mall Cop . Or whatever. (I won't even make you wait for the winners; they're marked with an asterisk). Best Picture Burn After Reading The Fall Happy-Go-Lucky My Winnipeg * WALL-E ...

They Go Together (Like Rama Lama Lama Ke Ding a De Dinga a Dong)
Film Experience Blog — ... which I don't think will win. (I'm guessing its a three way race between Doubt if they're thinking about acting or Benjamin Button vs. Slumdog if they're thinking in terms of Best Picture as they sometimes do). In addition to Milk, I wish SAG had stopped to at least consider Burn After Reading, A Christmas Tale, ...

Slumdog Millionaire, Man on Wire win BAFTAs for Best Film
cinemarealm.com — ... I’ve Loved You So Long ANIMATED FILM Wall-E LEADING ACTOR Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler LEADING ACTRESS Kate Winslet, The Reader SUPPORTING ACTOR Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight SUPPORTING ACTRESS Penelope Cruz, ...

Burn After Reading (2008) - New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day - Japanese Poster
Cinema is Dope — ... for the most part… not so much the colors but the collage of deeply irreverent faces with some wink wink imagery in small spots. Related Coverage: ::: Previous Movie Wallpaper (Cinema is Dope) ::: Japanese Poster Celebration Month - January 2009 Image Source: Official artwork that was used in the original Japanese poster for the film. Related Links: ::: IMDb Profile

Ledger fans want Joker removed
Filmstalker — ... Filmstalker will already know that I am far from agreeing that Heath Ledger should win every award under the sun because of his Joker performance. While I think that the performance was excellent, I do think that credit is being hugely missed for the writing and the sound which really makes this character. Sure Heath Ledger gives a great performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight (Filmstalker review) , but is his performance better than that of Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading or Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt ? I have my doubts. ...

This Week on Australian Screens
Stale Popcorn — ... make all these adult-skewering films into hits. Ladies in Lavender, anyone? The Unborn - Needless to say, I think we all know who the creative force behind the new Batman movies really is and it's not David S Goyer. W. - Oliver Stone neuters himself some more. DVD Releases for the Week 26/02/09 Body of Lies - Leonardo DiCaprio/Russell Crowe/Ridley Scott misfire. Burn After Reading - The Coen Brothers' exceptional comedy of idiots. ...

What he said
pullquote — ... :* Woody Allen is Benny Hill fronting like he's Henry James. On Burn After Reading : Like a kid with a magnifying glass hovering over an anthill. Annnnd , scene! *Please note that I rented this after revisiting Whit Stillman's ...

Men Who Stare At Goats Trailer is Classic Coen-esque Clooney. Today in Film Bloggery 08/27/09
SpoutBlog — Will Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare at Goats be the greatest George Clooney movie of all time? If you’re a fan of the actor/director’s work in Three Kings, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Burn After Reading and Syriana, then it’s possible you’ll see this as the military/CIA satire he’s been working towards his whole career. The fact that it seems like it should or could have been directed by the Coen ...

SERIOUSLY GREAT
Antagony & Ecstasy — ... and Burn After Reading but on speed, A Serious Man enjoys an unresolved ending - nay, "unresolved" is much too small a word for it, this is a positively vicious "fuck you and the horse you rode in on" kind of ending - that is the punchline to the joke the film has been telling all along. "And then things start to get bad." Which, being that this is a Coen film, is pretty damn bad indeed. Yet it's also completely and utterly hilarious. Critics of the Coen brothers enjoy trotting out, film after film, the same complaint: they plainly view themselves as superior to their ...

LFF 2009: The Men Who Stare at Goats
FILMdetail — ... a little different from the film but credit should go screenwriter Peter Straughan who has done a clever job in incorporating the details into a narrative framework and weaving many of the best details into certain scenes. There is quite a lot of voiceover from McGregor, but the fact that he’s a journalist helps soften what can sometimes be a clunky storytelling device. The tone here is somewhat similar to the dry, knowing slapstick of the Coen Brothers (such as Burn After Reading or The Big Lebowski) and director Grant Heslov manages to mine ...

Cinecast Episode 141 – Something to Toy With
Row Three — ... that is Where the Wild Things Are and also dropping some Coen Brothers love in a more detailed examination of A Serious Man . With of course the usual DVD talk and bits of other nostalgia and B-films. Thanks for listening! Click the Audio Icon below to listen in: [image] show [image] show MAIN REVIEWS: Where the Wild Things Are A Serious Man OTHER FILMS MENTIONED: Evil Demon Golfball from Hell!!! Rian Johnson’s upcoming project, Looper Burn After Reading Return of the Living Dead Hausu DVD PICKS: Andrew: Blood: ...