"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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."
"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"
"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"
"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."
"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"
"Burning Up (film) Burning Up is a 1930 American Pre-Code action film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and written by Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt. The film stars Richard Arlen as a racing driver and Mary Brian as his love interest, the daughter of a fellow driver. An early talkie, the film also features motorcycle stunts, and also stars Francis McDonald, Sam Hardy, Charles Sellon, and Tully Marshall. The film was released on February 1, 1930, by Paramount Pictures. The film was made in an effort by Paramount's Jesse L. Lasky to emulate the success of earlier racing films"
"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"
"Burning Bodhi Burning Bodhi is a 2015 independent film written and directed by Matthew McDuffie. It stars Kaley Cuoco, Landon Liboiron, Sasha Pieterse, and Cody Horn. The film had its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival on November 1, 2015. Dylan (Landon Liboiron) finds out via Facebook that his best friend from high school, ""Bodhi"" has died suddenly of an aneurysm. Reluctantly, he returns to his old neighborhood in New Mexico to grieve his popular friend's death. Yet, as past lovers and old friends follow suit, Dylan gradually realizes his homecoming also means reconciling the realities of his present"
"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"
"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,"
"Trial by Fire (2018 film) Trial by Fire is an American biographical drama directed by Edward Zwick. The story is based upon David Grann's article ""Trial by Fire"" that appeared in ""The New Yorker"" in 2009. The film stars Jack O'Connell as Cameron Todd Willingham and features Laura Dern, Emily Meade, Jeff Perry and Jade Pettyjohn in supporting roles. It had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2018. The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert testimony that bolstered"
"F scale. 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"
"its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival on November 1, 2015. monterey media bought the U.S. and Canadian rights for the film in November following the Austin Film Festival. The theatrical launch was March 18, 2016. Burning Bodhi Burning Bodhi is a 2015 independent film written and directed by Matthew McDuffie. It stars Kaley Cuoco, Landon Liboiron, Sasha Pieterse, and Cody Horn. The film had its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival on November 1, 2015. Dylan (Landon Liboiron) finds out via Facebook that his best friend from high school, ""Bodhi"" has died suddenly of an aneurysm. Reluctantly,"
"Afterburn (film) Afterburn is a 1992 dramatic film written and produced for television, based on a true story where one woman takes on the United States military and General Dynamics, manufacturer of the F-16 jet fighter aircraft that took her husband's life. The docudrama starred Laura Dern, Robert Loggia, and Vincent Spano. The film's name is derived from the ""Afterburner"" bar where the central character (Janet Harduvel), who works as a waitress, met her future husband, a setting that forms the focus of the first part of the film. On November 15, 1982, Janet Harduvel (Laura Dern) is devastated by"
"SBS awarded the film four stars out of five, observing that the film is an ""experiential kaleidoscope of sex, love, and the numbing nihilism that accompanies a traumatic event."" She also notes that ""Burning Man manages to bring energy, originality and depth to a storyline that is itself something of a trope: ‘The Cancer Film’."" 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"
"Burn"" on Blu-ray in the US on August 18, 2015. Night of the Eagle Night of the Eagle is a 1962 British-American horror film directed by Sidney Hayers. The script by Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson and George Baxt was based upon the 1943 Fritz Leiber novel ""Conjure Wife"". The film was retitled Burn, Witch, Burn! for the US release (not to be confused with the 1932 novel of the same name by Abraham Merritt). Norman Taylor (Peter Wyngarde) is a psychology professor lecturing about belief systems and superstition. After a scene in which his wife searches frantically and finds a"
"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"
"Allison Burnett Allison Burnett (born December 16, 1958) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. Allison Burnett was born in Ithaca, New York. He graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois before attending Juilliard where he studied playwriting. Allison's first screenplay to be produced was the kick-boxing prison drama, (1992), which he co-wrote with Charles Mattera. He also wrote Gregory Hines' directorial debut, Bleeding Hearts (1994), and the film Red Meat (1997), which he directed, starring John Slattery, Jennifer Grey, and Lara Flynn Boyle that had its first world premiere on Sundance Channel. Allison's next film was Autumn in"
"The Burning Dead The Burning Dead (also Volcano Zombies) is a 2015 American horror film directed by Rene Perez, written by Jeff Miller and Jason Ancona, and starring Tom Downey and Moniqa Plante. Long-dead cannibals are brought back to life when a volcano erupts. A sheriff and his daughter band together with several other survivors to defeat the lava-based zombies. Perez was attracted to the project due to his desire to work with producer Jeff Miller, and he was intrigued by the possibility of directing a campy horror film, which he had never done before. Plante said that she was"
"Mississippi Burning Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker. The script by Chris Gerolmo is loosely based on the 1964 Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner murder investigation in Mississippi. The film stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI agents assigned to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi. The investigation is met with hostility and backlash by the town's residents, local police, and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Gerolmo began working on the original script in 1985, after researching the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman,"
"In addition to the three BAFTA Awards, Hambling had been nominated for the BAFTA award for three additional films (""Fame"", ""Another Country"", and ""Evita""). Six films edited by Hambling were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (""Midnight Express"", ""Fame"", ""Mississippi Burning"", ""The Commitments"", ""In the Name of the Father"", and ""Evita""). Hambling had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors. ""Mississippi Burning"" won the ACE Eddie Award, and in 1998 Hambling was honored by the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. He died in 2013 at the age of 86. The director of each film"
"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"
"Burnt by the Sun Burnt by the Sun (, translit. ""Utomlyonnye solntsem"", literally ""wearied by the sun"") is a 1994 film by Russian director and screenwriter Nikita Mikhalkov and Azerbaijani screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov. The film depicts the story of a senior Red Army officer, played by Mikhalkov, and his family during the Great Purge of the late 1930s in the Stalinist Soviet Union. It also stars Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė and Mikhalkov's daughter Nadezhda Mikhalkova. The film achieved a high degree of popularity in Russia and positive reviews in the United States. It received the Grand Prix at the 1994"
"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,"
"they just didn't have either the means or the experience to pull it off this time."" Mac McEntire of DVD Verdict wrote, """"After Sundown"" promises low budget cowboy vampire zombie action, and that's just what it delivers. I doubt it'll ever be considered a horror classic, but fans of the genre could do a lot worse."" After Sundown (2006 film) After Sundown is a 2006 American horror-Western film directed by Christopher Abram and Michael W. Brown, written by Abram, and starring Susana Gibb, Reece Rios, Natalie Jones, and co-directors Brown and Abram. A vampire gunslinger from the Old West terrorizes"
"to how ""Friday the 13th"" had earned distribution with Paramount Pictures. British director Tony Maylam, known for rock music documentaries in the 1970s, was hired as ""The Burning""s director in summer 1980. Maylam had met Weinstein and Burger while the producers worked as rock promoters. During his discussion with film critic Alan Jones on the commentary track of MGM's DVD, Maylam said that once he came on board things moved very quickly. The screenplay was written in just six weeks and was sculpted to conform to the emerging genre conventions of the time. As it was, the film takes place"
"Brain on Fire (film) Brain on Fire is a 2016 biographical drama film directed and written by Gerard Barrett, based on Susannah Cahalan's memoir ""Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness"". The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Jenny Slate, Thomas Mann, Tyler Perry, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Richard Armitage. Principal photography began on July 13, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia. It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 14, 2016. The film was released on Netflix on June 22, 2018. Susannah Cahalan (Moretz) is a ""New York Post"" writer, who works with her boss Richard (Perry)"
"Heat Lightning (film) Heat Lightning is a 1934 Pre-Code drama film starring Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, and Preston Foster. It is based on the play of the same name by Leon Abrams and George Abbott. The movie was one of the last to be released before the Motion Picture Production Code was rigorously enforced. According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, two months after its release, it was banned by the Catholic League of Decency. Olga (Aline MacMahon) runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot desert somewhere in the American Southwest with her discontented younger"