This week, there’s another “red band” trailer on Trailer Scaler, full of the stuff you wouldn’t get to see on network television. Tee-hee! We’re so naughty!
What’s that? The movie? Oh… right. That’s important, too. Not just the prurience. The movie is Burn After Reading, the new film from the Coen brothers.
(Let’s get scalin’… after the jump)
The Movie: Burn After Reading (opening September 12; premiering at the Venice Film Festival on August 27)
The Buzz: As they tend to do, the Coens are following up a drama–No Country For Old Men–with a comedy. Their latest movie stars a bunch of great actors (George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, etc.) and one movie star who is capable of great acting (Brad Pitt). It promises to be a violent, madcap, and bizarre. You know, like most Coen brothers movies.
The Trailer:
The Review: Last year, a New York reporter got hold of this movie’s script and said it was really funny. Based on this trailer, I can believe it. It seems like the cast is delivering a delicious blend of earnestness and insanity, and the plot details are obviously primed to go to dangerous places. A story about idiots trying to blackmail CIA agents just begs for the kind of world-searing chaos that anchors Coen greats like Fargo, No Country for Old Men, and The Big Lebowski. These guys do well when things are thisclose to madness.
But honestly… even if this trailer made the movie looked crappy, I’d still see it. I’ll give any Coen brothers movie a shot. But the crackle of this trailer only boosts my enthusiasm.







1 response so far ↓
1 Chad // Oct 7, 2008 at 11:16 am
the performances were great, and I appreciated some colorful themes and irony at work among the cohen’s typical oddball, pitch black humor. but all the same, the tone of the film was uneven. “burn” lacks the coherence and dramatic eloquence of their other comedies like lebowski and fargo.
But I still loved it. Cohen bros movies are like pizza, even when they’re bad they’re still good
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