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- Burn After Reading is a 2008 Black Comedy spy thriller film written, produced and directed by The Coen Brothers, starring John Malkovich, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, J. K. Simmons, Richard Jenkins, and Brad Pitt.
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Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. [5] It follows a recently jobless CIA analyst , Osborne Cox ( John Malkovich ), whose misplaced memoirs are found by a pair of dimwitted gym employees ( Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt ).
Burn After Reading: Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich. A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- 2008-09-12
- “Spy”
- “Blackkklansman”
- “Bridge of Spies”
- “The Imitation Game”
- “Munich”
- “Enemy of The State”
- “The Hunt For Red October”
- “Casino Royale”
- “The Manchurian Candidate”
- “The Lady Vanishes”
The spy comedy is a surprisingly fertile microgenre, between “Spy Hard” and the ever-popular “Austin Powers” franchise. But none can hold a candle to the simply named “Spy,” which provides Melissa McCarthy with her best/possibly only great post-“Bridesmaids” comedic turn, complete with Paul Feig returning to direct her. Cast against type as a doorm...
Detectives Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) and Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) go undercover in the Ku Klux Klan for Spike Lee’s darkly hilarious “BlacKkKlansman.” Based on Stallworth’s 2014 memoir of the same name, this 2018 Best Picture contender won Best Adapted Screenplay, earning Lee his first competitive Oscar 30 years after “Do The Right...
Among Tom Hanks’ best roles is his performance in “Bridge of Spies” as the real James B. Donovan, a Cold War-era attorney tasked with negotiating the release of U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell). The 2015 historical drama not only stirringly reenacts the events of the 1960 U-2 crisis, but sees the Best Picture nominee’s staggeringly s...
Directed by Morten Tyldum, “The Imitation Game” tells the compelling true story of Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), a brilliant mathematician and computer scientist who worked as a code-breaker for the British during World War II. This poignant spy drama offers not only a fascinating glimpse into Turing’s most salient innovations and discoveries...
Israel’s occupation of Palestine is a truly touchy subject, but Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” is one of the few great portrayals of the conflict on film. A slightly fictionalized account of the events following the 1972 Black September attacks that lead to the deaths of 11 Israel Olympic Team Members in Munich, the film focuses on a team lead by Moss...
Bobby Dean (Will Smith) finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time in director Tony Scott’s “Enemy of the State.” When Bobby’s old friend from college (Jason Lee) witnesses a murder involving high-level government officials, the pair’s chance meeting at a shopping center leaves the ill-fated labor lawyer with critical evidence. Soon, he’s o...
Still the best adaptation of a Tom Clancy novel to date, “The Hunt for Red October” chronicles the search for a hard-to-detect submarine off the east coast of the U.S. The powerful ballistic missile sub may be captained by Soviet captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery), but it’s the CIA’s duty to find and stop it. Alec Baldwin leads as agent Jack Ryan,...
It’s difficult to remember a time when people regarded Daniel Craig as a strange choice for James Bond, and that’s largely because his first film as 007 was such an out-of-the-gate home run. And while Craig would star in four further films as the character, “Casino Royale” still stands tall as his only truly great Bond adventure. Director Martin Ca...
Released at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, director John Frankenheimer’s “The Manchurian Candidate” redefined the double-cross with the story of a soldier, played by Laurence Harvey, who is unwittingly weaponized by foreign enemies. The concept comes from author Richard Condon’s gripping 1959 novel, but is made even more compelling by the ...
Alfred Hitchcock is the only director on this list to have three separate entries, which is highly unsurprising; as the master of suspense, the British filmmaker’s talents are perfect for the spy genre. One of his earliest and best spy films is “The Lady Vanishes,” His 1938 British film about an English tourist (played by Margaret Lockwood) traveli...
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Sep 24, 2014 · • Part of the genius of Burn After Reading is the way it employs the somber aesthetics of an espionage thriller to tell a story that is, at its core, a sex farce (though admittedly one with...
- Christopher Orr
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst (John Malkovich) falls into the hands of Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), the two gym employees see a chance...
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- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
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- Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Burn After Reading on DVD December 23, 2008 starring George Clooney, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton. A dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. CIA agent Osborne Cox decides to pen his memoirs and is fired from the
Burn After Reading is a 2008 Black Comedy spy thriller film written, produced and directed by The Coen Brothers, starring John Malkovich, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, J. K. Simmons, Richard Jenkins, and Brad Pitt.
