"Burn After Reading Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film stars George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, and Brad Pitt. The film had its premiere on August 27, 2008, opening at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. It was released in the United States on September 12, 2008, and in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2008. Faced with a demotion at work due to a drinking problem, Osbourne Cox angrily quits his job as a CIA analyst and decides to write a"
"possible. More than just a satire on espionage, the movie is scathing critique of modern America as a superficial, post-political society where cheating of all sorts comes all too easily...The most disturbing thing about ""Burn After Reading"", though, is how it resembles every day in Trump's Washington, where the line between blundering idiocy and malevolent conspiracy is increasingly blurred."" The National Board of Review named ""Burn After Reading"" in their list of the Top 10 Movies of 2008. Noel Murray of ""The A.V. Club"" named it the second best film of 2008, ""Empire"" magazine named it the third best film"
"Best Actor at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. He eventually collected the award one year later at the 2008 festival. Pitt's next appearance was in the 2008 black comedy ""Burn After Reading"", his first collaboration with the Coen brothers. The film received a positive reception from critics, with ""The Guardian"" calling it ""a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy"", noting that Pitt's performance was one of the funniest. He was later cast as Benjamin Button, the lead in David Fincher's 2008 film ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"", a loosely adapted version of a 1921 short story by F."
"Mills film adaptation of the novel ""Thumbsucker"". Swinton later had cameos in ""Narnia""'s sequels, """" and """". In 2007, Swinton's performance as Karen Crowder in ""Michael Clayton"" earned her both a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2008 80th Academy Awards, the film's sole win. Swinton next appeared in the 2008 Coen Brothers film, ""Burn After Reading"". Swinton said of the film, in which she plays opposite George Clooney, ""I don't know if it will make anybody else laugh, but it really made"
"The Reader (2008 film) The Reader is a 2008 German-American romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by David Hare, based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink. Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet star along with the young actor David Kross. It was the last film for producers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom died prior to its release. Production began in Germany in September 2007, and the film opened in limited release on December 10, 2008. The film tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a"
"Incendiary (film) Incendiary is a 2008 British drama film portraying the aftermath of a terrorist attack at a football match. It is directed by Sharon Maguire and stars Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, and Matthew Macfadyen. It is about an adulterous woman's life that is torn apart when her husband and four-year-old son are killed in a suicide bombing at Emirates Stadium during an Arsenal F.C. match. It is based on the 2005 novel ""Incendiary"" by Chris Cleave. A young East Ender woman (Michelle Williams) is married to bomb-disposal officer Lenny (Nicholas Gleaves); they have a four-year-old son (Sidney Johnston). While"
"Produced by The Atlantic Theater Company, it ran there from March 2008 through June 1, 2008. and Art Meets Commerce. In May 2009, the Atlantic Theater Company produced Coen's ""Offices"", as part of their mainstage season at the Linda Gross Theater. ""Burn After Reading"", a comedy starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, was released September 12, 2008, and portrays a collision course between a gym instructor, spies and Internet dating. Released to positive reviews, it debuted at #1 in North America. In 2009, the Coens directed a television commercial titled ""Air Freshener"" for the Reality Coalition. They next directed ""A"
"intelligence and everything ends badly."" Todd McCarthy, of ""Variety"" magazine, wrote a strongly negative review of ""Burn After Reading"", which he said ""tries to mate sex farce with a satire of a paranoid political thriller, with arch and ungainly results."" McCarthy said the talented cast was forced to act like cartoon characters, described Carter Burwell's score as ""uncustomarily overbearing"" and said the dialogue is ""dialed up to an almost grotesquely exaggerated extent, making for a film that feels misjudged from the opening scene and thereafter only occasionally hits the right note."" ""Time"" film critic Richard Corliss said he did not"
"The Burning Plain The Burning Plain is a 2008 drama film directed and written by Guillermo Arriaga, the screenwriter of ""Amores perros"" (2000), ""21 Grams"" (2003), and ""Babel"" (2006). The film stars Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Basinger and Joaquim de Almeida. In Arriaga's directorial debut, he films a story that has multipart story strands woven together as in his previous screenplays. Filming of ""The Burning Plain"" began in New Mexico in November 2007, and the film was released in late 2008 in various festivals, before a limited theatrical release in 2009. Typical of Arriaga's works, this film is told"
"the BAFTA Award for ""Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer for their First Feature Film"". Hunger (2008 film) Hunger is a 2008 Irish-British historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, and Liam McMahon, about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and McQueen. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for first-time filmmakers. It went on to win the Sydney Film Prize at the Sydney Film Festival, the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics, best picture from"
"Burning Blue (film) Burning Blue is a 2013 American drama film, directed by D.M.W. Greer and starring Trent Ford and Rob Mayes. It is based on the 1992 play of the same name by Greer about a U.S. Navy accident investigation which becomes a gay witch hunt during the ""Don't Ask, Don't Tell"" era. Best friends Lieutenants Dan Lynch (Trent Ford) and Will Stephensen (Morgan Spector) are U.S. Navy fighter pilots flying the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet and hoping to become the youngest pilots to be accepted into the space program. After two accidents, one of which is due to"
"an extraordinarily unconventional love story."" The Reader (2008 film) The Reader is a 2008 German-American romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by David Hare, based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink. Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet star along with the young actor David Kross. It was the last film for producers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom died prior to its release. Production began in Germany in September 2007, and the film opened in limited release on December 10, 2008. The film tells the story of Michael Berg, a"
"hard to know where to start, but the fatal problem is that this is a film with an identity crisis""; the film at times seems like a ""study of guilt and grief"" and at other times a ""conspiracy thriller"" but ""ends up being a compendium of bizarre diversions, most of which are utterly surplus to the film’s half-cocked desire to stick with the experience and emotions of its main character."" Incendiary (film) Incendiary is a 2008 British drama film portraying the aftermath of a terrorist attack at a football match. It is directed by Sharon Maguire and stars Michelle Williams,"
"Maria Rilke’s gorgeous 'Go to the Limits of Your Longing'."" The writing and directing were criticized, but Ford and Mayes were praised for their portrayals. The film scored a 28% in review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Burning Blue (film) Burning Blue is a 2013 American drama film, directed by D.M.W. Greer and starring Trent Ford and Rob Mayes. It is based on the 1992 play of the same name by Greer about a U.S. Navy accident investigation which becomes a gay witch hunt during the ""Don't Ask, Don't Tell"" era. Best friends Lieutenants Dan Lynch (Trent Ford) and Will Stephensen (Morgan"
"""Burn After Reading"" (2008) as Osborne Cox, and ""Changeling"" (2008) as Reverend Briegleb. In 2010, he co-starred with Josh Brolin and Megan Fox in the science fiction Western: ""Jonah Hex"" as Quentin Turnbull. The same year he also starred in: ""Secretariat"" with Diane Lane, and ""RED"" with Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren. A role he later reprised in the 2013 sequel: ""RED 2"". Malkovich made an appearance in the 2011 science fiction action film: """" as Bruce Brazos. He co-starred in the romantic zombie comedy film: ""Warm Bodies"" as General Grigio in 2013 and lent his voice to"
"Afterwards Afterwards () is a 2008 English-language psychological thriller film directed by Gilles Bourdos and starring Romain Duris, John Malkovich and Evangeline Lilly. Based on Guillaume Musso's novel ""Et après..."", the story tells of a workaholic lawyer who is told by a self-proclaimed visionary that he must try to prevent his imminent death. The film was shot in New York City, Montreal and various New Mexico locations over June to July 2007, and had a French release in January 2009. As a child, Nathan Del Amico (Duris) 'dies' in an accident, but comes 'back'. Years later, now a career-driven New"
"Burn Burn Burn Burn Burn Burn is a 2015 British black comedy film, the directorial debut of Chanya Button. The film is a coming-of-age tale, written by Charlie Covell and inspired by the Jack Kerouac novel ""On the Road"" published in 1957. The fictional plot follows the story of two girls, Seph (Laura Carmichael) and Alex (Chloe Pirrie), taking a road trip to follow the instructions of their close friend Dan, who has died and given them instructions where to scatter his ashes. The ashes (stored in tupperware in the glove compartment) keep diminishing in quantity as the trip progresses."
"Burning Man (film) Burning Man is a 2011 Australian drama film written and directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. Burning Man tells the story of Tom (Matthew Goode), a British chef in a Bondi restaurant, who seems to have chosen to disobey his boss, and his actions are tolerated by everyone around him. As Tom descends into darkness from a car crash in his Volkswagen, pieces of a different story start to emerge. Every woman around him tries, in different ways, to help Tom put himself back together. ""Burning Man"" currently holds a Rotten Tomatoes approval rating of 74%. Fiona Williams of"
"Burnt (film) Burnt is a 2015 American drama film directed by John Wells and written by Steven Knight, from a story by Michael Kalesniko. The film stars Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Omar Sy, Daniel Brühl, Matthew Rhys, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alicia Vikander, Uma Thurman and Emma Thompson. The film was released on October 30, 2015, by The Weinstein Company. Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) was the chef at a high-class Parisian restaurant owned by his mentor until his drug use and temperamental behavior destroyed his career and the restaurant. In the aftermath, Adam went into self-imposed exile in New Orleans to sober"
"Hunger (2008 film) Hunger is a 2008 Irish-British historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, and Liam McMahon, about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and McQueen. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for first-time filmmakers. It went on to win the Sydney Film Prize at the Sydney Film Festival, the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics, best picture from the Evening Standard British Film Awards, and received two BAFTA nominations, winning one. The film was also nominated"
"The Burning (film) The Burning is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Tony Maylam and written by Peter Lawrence and Bob Weinstein. It stars Brian Matthews, Brian Backer, Leah Ayres, and Lou David. The plot tells about a summer camp caretaker named Cropsy who is horribly burnt from a prank gone wrong. Years later, he is released from the hospital with severe disfigurements, and seeks revenge on those responsible at a nearby summer camp. The story is loosely based on the upstate New York urban legend of Cropsey, a tale that became popular at summer camps in the 1960s"
"and recognition to create a public service announcement about the murder which ran on LOGO and across MTV networks. Victim of police brutality Rodney King compared the murder to his own experience as a victim of hate crime stating, ""What have we learned? What have we changed?"" An examination of the circumstances that preceded and followed the 2008 murder was captured in the 2013 HBO documentary film, ""Valentine Road"". The murder was a central inspiration for Canadian writer Raziel Reid's award-winning young adult novel ""When Everything Feels Like the Movies"", published in 2014. and 's novel ""L'enfant mascara"", published in"
"also is considered to be ""strong, intelligent, heart-breaking and realistic. The author said that principally, the novel is about the feelings of a mother for its children and the aftermath of a terrorist attack. The film, loosely based in the book, was released on October 24th on 2008. It was directed by Sharon Maguire and starring Michelle Williams in the main role, supported by Ewan McGregor as Jasper Black, and Matthew MacFadyen as Terrence Butcher. Unlike the book, the film received poor reviews, receiving 23% of approval in the site Rotten Tomatoes. Incendiary (novel) Incendiary is a novel by British"
"Burning (film) Burning () is a 2018 South Korean mystery drama film directed by Lee Chang-dong. The film stars Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, and Jeon Jong-seo. The film is based on the short story ""Barn Burning"" by Haruki Murakami. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It was also selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, making the December shortlist, becoming the first Korean film to do so. Lee Jong-su performs odd jobs in Paju. One day he runs into Shin Hae-mi,"
"absence from ""Burn After Reading"". This was his tenth film with them. Costume designer Mary Zophres returned for her ninth collaboration with the directors. The Coens themselves stated that the ""germ"" of the story was a rabbi from their adolescence: a ""mysterious figure"" who had a private conversation with each student at the conclusion of their religious education. Ethan Coen said that it seemed appropriate to open the film with a Yiddish folk tale, but as the brothers did not know any suitable ones, they wrote their own. Open auditions for the roles of Danny and Sarah were held on"
"with Gayle Lynds, was originally conceived as a mini-series; the book evolved from a short treatment Ludlum wrote for NBC. The Bourne movies, starring Matt Damon in the title role, have been commercially and critically successful (""The Bourne Ultimatum"" won three Academy Awards in 2008), although the story lines depart significantly from the source material. During the 1970s, Ludlum lived in Leonia, New Jersey, where he spent hours each day writing at his home. Ludlum died on March 12, 2001, at his home in Naples, Florida, while recovering from severe burns caused by a mysterious fire which occurred on February"
"Films production (London, UK) Distribution: UDI Urban Distribution International (France) World Premiere: BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere The film is rated R13 in New Zealand for offensive language and sexual references. Burn Burn Burn Burn Burn Burn is a 2015 British black comedy film, the directorial debut of Chanya Button. The film is a coming-of-age tale, written by Charlie Covell and inspired by the Jack Kerouac novel ""On the Road"" published in 1957. The fictional plot follows the story of two girls, Seph (Laura Carmichael) and Alex (Chloe Pirrie), taking a road trip to follow the instructions"
"a compelling and entertaining debut that stays true to his earlier interests."" The film grossed $58,749 in its first weekend in North America. It grossed $200,730 domestically and $5,267,917 in foreign countries, for a total of $5,468,647 worldwide. The Burning Plain The Burning Plain is a 2008 drama film directed and written by Guillermo Arriaga, the screenwriter of ""Amores perros"" (2000), ""21 Grams"" (2003), and ""Babel"" (2006). The film stars Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Basinger and Joaquim de Almeida. In Arriaga's directorial debut, he films a story that has multipart story strands woven together as in his previous screenplays."
"Burning Annie Burning Annie is an American independent comedy film starring Gary Lundy, Sara Downing, Kim Murphy, Brian Klugman, Jay Paulson, Rini Bell, Todd Duffey, and Kathleen Rose Perkins. It is the directorial debut of Van Flesher. The film was produced by Randy Mack of Armak Productions and in 2007 was distributed by Lightyear Entertainment via Warner Bros. In 2017 it was re-distributed by the filmmakers through Sundance Institute's Creative Distribution Initiative. A dysfunctional romantic comedy about Max, a college student in 1998 who's obsessed with Woody Allen's film Annie Hall. He believes the film holds all the answers to"
"that Harvey Weinstein's predatory behavior went back as far as 1980. The Burning (film) The Burning is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Tony Maylam and written by Peter Lawrence and Bob Weinstein. It stars Brian Matthews, Brian Backer, Leah Ayres, and Lou David. The plot tells about a summer camp caretaker named Cropsy who is horribly burnt from a prank gone wrong. Years later, he is released from the hospital with severe disfigurements, and seeks revenge on those responsible at a nearby summer camp. The story is loosely based on the upstate New York urban legend of Cropsey,"
"Afterschool Afterschool is a 2008 drama film filmed, written, and directed by Antonio Campos. Filmed at the Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut, ""Afterschool"" premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in the program Un Certain Regard. The film gained an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award nomination for Campos and won the Jury Prize for experimental narrative film at the Nashville Film Festival. While doing a film project at a private school, internet-video obsessed teenager Robert (Ezra Miller) catches twin sisters dying due to drugs contaminated with rat poison. Confused, Robert does not call for help but rather simply walks"
"the movie, which was read by actor Wallace Langham. Following the movie, Thompson and Soler's home was under surveillance by a terrorist group in West Hollywood, who eventually firebombed the couple on November 1, 2000. Thompson has discussed this incident in interviews with Jesse Brown of CANADALAND and fellow Canadian comic Elvira Kurt as being inspiration for his future show ""The Lowest Show on Earth"". In the interview with Kurt, he says of the attack, ""We were sleeping and a group came to our home. They filled our giant garbage cans with gasoline and set them on fire on our"
"when we say one nice thing to each other."" Swinton said of the dynamic, ""I'm very happy to shout at him on screen. It's great fun."" Swinton described ""Burn After Reading"" as ""a kind of monster caper movie,"" and said of the characters, ""All of us are monsters – like, true monsters. It's ridiculous."" She also said, ""I think there is something random at the heart of this one. On the one hand, it really is bleak and scary. On the other, it is really funny. ... It's the whatever-ness of it. You feel that at any minute of any"