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Post by dvbalove ♥ on Apr 25, 2008 10:32:00 GMT
Intelligence is relative.Plot:A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it. Cast:Directors:Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Writers:Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (screenplay) Brad Pitt ... Chad Feldheimer George Clooney ... Harry Pfarrer Tilda Swinton ... Katie Cox John Malkovich ... Osbourne Cox Frances McDormand ... Linda Litzke Richard Jenkins ... Ted Treffon Matt Walton ... Del Trailer:Release Date:UK 5 September 2008 USA 12 September 2008
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Post by dvbalove ♥ on Apr 25, 2008 10:32:48 GMT
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Post by dvbalove ♥ on May 30, 2008 20:41:23 GMT
I just added the trailer to the main post.... it looks fantastic.... lol
Other than Brad's dancing? running style? These where some great quotes:
"We really don't know what anyoone is after. Report back to me when, uh, I don't know, when it makes sense."
"Where's the money?" "He wouldn't give it to me!!"
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Post by Yada on May 31, 2008 7:47:08 GMT
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Post by dvbalove ♥ on Jun 11, 2008 21:36:25 GMT
the movie looks like a lot of fun!
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Post by Yada on Jul 29, 2008 18:30:22 GMT
^ Yeah, Brad's expressions are so funny...
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Post by Yada on Aug 25, 2008 11:13:24 GMT
The Venice Film festival starts on Wedneday and this film will make its debut there! Exciting days are on our doorstep... Since they have had their twin babies, Brad and Angelina vanished... Looking forward to seeing them both soon, in the form of great HQs!
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Post by Yada on Aug 31, 2008 7:07:53 GMT
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Post by Yada on Sept 1, 2008 11:06:45 GMT
Here is some recent review made during the Venice Film Festival which will end on September 6
Movie about idiots pokes fun at world of intelligence
The Coen brothers wrote their dark comedy "Burn After Reading" with stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand all in mind. Not necessarily a compliment.
The movie, which premieres Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival, is, simply put, a tale about idiots -- and what happens when their worlds collide.
Pitt and McDormand are a pair of hapless gym employees who get in way over their heads when the memoirs of a failed CIA analyst, played by John Malkovich, fall into their hands and they try to peddle them as classified intelligence secrets. Clooney plays a hypochondriac philanderer having an affair with the CIA analyst's disappointed wife, played by Tilda Swinton.
"Looking at the parts we are playing, I'm very concerned about what you think of us," Clooney said at a news conference.
It is Clooney's third film with the Coen brothers -- completing what he called "his trilogy of idiots," after "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "Intolerable Cruelty."
Pitt said he had waited a long time to work with the Coen brothers. "Like George ... I'm not sure if I should be flattered or insulted. I'm still a bit unsure."
Asked if the film was a love letter from her husband, Joel Coen, McDormand quipped: "Have you seen the film? And you call that a love letter?" The film's opening shots are of McDormand's Linda Litzke having her behind, belly and arms scrutinized by a plastic surgeon in her attempt to stave off middle age.
"We started writing the movie as kind of an exercise, thinking of what kind of parts these actors might play, what kind of story they might inhabit," Ethan Coen told a news conference.
"Burn Without Reading" is set within a spy story for no other reason than "we hadn't done one before," Joel Coen told reporters. "It could have been a dog movie or an outer space movie. We just kind of landed on a spy movie."
McDormand's and Pitt's characters have no business playing spies, and appear driven by a combination of naivete, greed and the kind of trite wisdom and oversimplified world view that can be gleaned from the self-help shelf of the corner bookstore and daytime television.
The film -- part comedy, part satire of Washington, D.C.'s government community -- got a number of laughs during the press screening before the gala opening Wednesday night. At one point, Pitt's Chad Feldheimer shows up for an extortion date chewing gum, wearing a bike helmet and calling himself "Mr. Black." When the blackmailing fails, Pitt and McDormand as Chad and Linda head off -- where else? -- to a monumental Russian Embassy to make a deal, meeting a diplomat sitting below an oversized photograph of former Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The stars said there was no room for ad-libbing in the tightly written script, which weaves together overlapping stories.
"It's really a funny script. I didn't feel any need to wander off the script," said Pitt. Of his iPod-loving, spandex-wearing character, Pitt says: "He doesn't consider any other possibility other than what he thinks will happen. I pretty much ran with that."
Swinton plays an angry wife unable to shake her disappointment at being married to a failed spy and lush who watches for the clock to tick to 5 p.m. to begin cocktail hour and tap out the memoirs in an alcoholic haze.
"There's something really, really funny in terms of my character being so angry all the time," Swinton said.
Clooney said the movie -- though poking fun at the world of intelligence -- had no political intent. Speaking of politics, wouldn't Clooney, who is planning a fundraiser for presidential hopeful Barack Obama in Geneva, Switzerland, next month, rather have been at the Democratic Convention in Denver, this week instead of in Venice?
"I'm sort of happy to be here," Clooney said. "It is one of my favorite places."
"Burn Without Reading," is playing out of competition for the Golden Lion, which will be awarded on the festival's closing night.
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Post by Yada on Sept 15, 2008 22:07:04 GMT
Brad Pitt's Comedy No. 1 at Box Office! Brad Pitt is box office gold. His latest comedy, Burn After Reading, debuted at No. 1, with $19.4 million, making it the Coen Brothers' most successful opening ever. The writing-directing team's The Ladykillers, with Tom Hanks, opened with $12.6 million in 2004. Last year's No Country for Old Men, which grossed $73.3 million, only made about $1.2 million in its opening weekend.) www.usmagazine.com/news/brad-pitt-no-1-at-box-office
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