Burn After Reading Review Part 3

Where does this film leave the Coens? Their unique position, as darlings of both the Hollywood set and the festival

circuit, is unchanged. What they have managed to come up with here, somehow, is a light-as-fluff flipside to

hardcore "insider" films like All the President's Men, Michael Clayton or, indeed, The Insider: it paints the

powers-that-be as goofy, chaotic and definitively non-sinister. This lot, you feel, couldn't bug their way out of a

paper bag.

Burn After Reading may also go down as arguably the Coens' happiest engagement with the demands of the Hollywood A-

list - but this bit of career development may also be contributing to a diminishing of their particular film-making

strengths. Or perhaps they are simply evolving. The highly-wrought grotesqueries with which they made their name

seem well in the past; stars find it difficult to merge with the scenery. For better or worse, their films are now

more simply natural to look at and experience. Whether it will pay off again at the Oscar ceremony or box-office

remains to be seen. [Guardian]

Burn After Reading Review Part 1

With Burn After Reading the Coen brothers finds room for George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich - along with

Tilda Swinton who, improbable as it may seem after all those years slogging it out for low-budget avant-gardists

like Derek Jarman, Sally Potter and John Maybury, is now supping at the high table of Hollywood aristocracy. And the

Coens themselves are new enough to the big leagues for them to still feel they are blinking owlishly in the

spotlight.

The film itself may be a bit of an afterthought down here on the Lido. Clocking in at a crisp 95 minutes, Burn After

Reading is a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy that couldn't be in bigger contrast to the Coens' last film,

the bloodsoaked, brooding No Country for Old Men. Burn, in comparison, is bit of a bantamweight: fast moving, lots

of attitude, and uncorking a killer punch when it can.[Guardian]

Burn After Reading Review Part 2

With Burn After Reading the Coen brothers finds room for George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich - along with

Tilda Swinton who, improbable as it may seem after all those years slogging it out for low-budget avant-gardists

like Derek Jarman, Sally Potter and John Maybury, is now supping at the high table of Hollywood aristocracy. And the

Coens themselves are new enough to the big leagues for them to still feel they are blinking owlishly in the

spotlight.

The film itself may be a bit of an afterthought down here on the Lido. Clocking in at a crisp 95 minutes, Burn After

Reading is a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy that couldn't be in bigger contrast to the Coens' last film,

the bloodsoaked, brooding No Country for Old Men. Burn, in comparison, is bit of a bantamweight: fast moving, lots

of attitude, and uncorking a killer punch when it can.[Guardian]

Burn After Reading DVD review

Those of you who claims to be a fan of John Malkovich,George Clooney or Brad Pitt may consider to buy a DVD with the

upcoming movie wich calls Burn After Reading.And what this movie about?Here we go:John Malkovich stars in this

dark comedy from Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen as Osbourne Cox, an ousted CIA official who loses his recently

penned memoir into the hands of a pair of moronic gym employees. George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton round

out the cast of this irreverent farce, whose title alludes to former CIA director Stansfield Turner's book Burn

Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence.

One of the Reviews

"This is a man practiced in deceit," says one character of another in Burn After Reading. "It's almost his

job." Deceit is very much the job of the new film from Joel and Ethan Coen. It's as if, after winning two fat Oscars

(best picture and director) for their fairly straightforward adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men,

the brothers needed to reassert their old capricious cunning, their weasily larkishness, their independence from

easy acclaim. "Just because you agree with the Academy that we made the best film of 2007," they seem to be warning

their fans, "don't think you're any closer to figuring out our motives. We're still tough to get. Deceit is our job,

our pleasure and your challenge." [Time]

What this Movie about?

Burn After Reading Description
Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) is a CIA analyst who quits his job at the CIA after being demoted because of his

drinking problem. He then decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie Cox (Tilda Swinton),
wants to divorce Osbourne and, at the counsel of her divorce lawyer, she copies all his personal financial files off

his computer along with his work-in-progress memoirs. This disk eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout

gym.
Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), who works at the gym, finds the disc and intends to blackmail Cox with his former

employee Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand). CIA agent Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney) who is assigned to recover the

disc is also sleeping with Katie, Osbourne's wife.[Wikipedia]

Burn After Reading Summary

Burn After Reading is an upcoming black comedy film, set for a September 12, 2008 release, starring John
Malkovich, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt, and made by Joel and Ethan Coen. The R-
rated film had its premiere on August 27, 2008 when it opened the 2008 Venice Film Festival.
According to the Coens the Burn After Reading will focus on the world of the CIA, physical fitness in
Washington, D.C., and internet dating. The film is the brothers' first since the Academy Award winning No Country
For Old Men and has been described by Tilda Swinton as "...a kind of monster caper movie. All of us are monsters -
like, true monsters. It's ridiculous. It's much lighter than No Country for Old Men." [Wikipedia]