Friday
15Aug
New Clips and Poster from The Coen Brothers' 'Burn After Reading'
Friday, August 15, 2008 at 5:27PM
What do you get when you take The Coen Brothers,
Brad
Pitt,
George Clooney,
John Malkovich,
Tilda Swinton,
Frances McDormand, greedy
but bumbling health club employees, the unpublished memoirs of a CIA agent, and
blackmail? You get
Burn After Reading, which looks like another potential
classic from
Joel and
Ethan.
Before we saw anything from this film - posters,
trailers, and clips - we heard Clooney talking it up as the conclusion to his
"Idiot Trilogy" with the brothers, following O Brother Where Art Thou and
Intolerable Cruelty. (Can't we just skip that second one?) And the more we've
seen over the past few months, the more we truly understand what he means.
We've been tipped by a Big Picture reader to the
existence of another new poster, again inspired by the legendary
Saul Bass. The
last time we published a poster for this flick, it was unapproved, so we had to
remove it. I like this one better, anyway, which was on display over at
JoBlo.
Burn After Reading will open on September 12th. Let's
hope it can live up to, well, every last ounce of footage we've seen so far.
Reader Comments (2)
What on EARTH is a Big Picture premiere?
Good dialogue and excellent acting. This is something I am looking forward to.