Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Photo: Courtesy Focus Features "After this last movie, George said: 'That's it, I've played my last idiot.' Ethan said: 'Well, you won't be working with us any more, then.'" — Joel Coen on typecasting George Clooney [ Telegraph ] "We put him in the thong, which is CG. We basically took his outfit from the book. But, as in the book, we took it off him. Because he just lets it go. He certainly...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Here, however, the speaker is Joel Coen and the laughter is provided by Ethan, his younger brother (by three years). They were responding to the question of whether their big night at the Academy Awards in February - four Oscars for No Country For Old Men, including best picture - changed their outlook on the film industry, or their place in it, or in any way represented an apotheosis...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
Film News: New releases perform strong in crowded frame -- Ethan and Joel Coen’s farce “Burn After Reading” led a vibrant boom at the fall box office, debuting to an estimated $19.4 million from 2,651 theaters to give the siblings and Focus Features their biggest opening gross ever.
Amy's Robot (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
When I think of the most memorable actors and characters of the Coen Brothers' movies, I usually think of the men. There are guys they use again and again, like John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and John Turturro, and those...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
6:55 p.m. ET TORONTO - Joel and Ethan Coen know their idiots.They’ve written every sort of bonehead, nitwit and lamebrain imaginable in both comic and tragic form in such films as “Raising Arizona,” “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou'”Yet they may have topped themselves for siring simpletons with the dark comedy “Burn After Reading,” which stars usual Coen...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | yesterday
If there was an announcement made today that Sam Raimi was going to direct a movie from a screenplay written by The Coen Brothers (starring Bruce Campbell, no less), I don’t think there’s a film geek alive who wouldn’t lose their mind. Based on their impressive filmographies and the cult followings that both have amassed, [...]
WJZ Baltimore, Maryland News Weathe (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
The Coen brothers wrote their dark comedy, "Burn After Reading," with stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand in mind. Not necessarily a compliment.
cbs4denver.com: Entertainment (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
The Coen brothers wrote their dark comedy, "Burn After Reading," with stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand in mind. Not necessarily a compliment.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
The Coen brothers wrote their dark comedy, "Burn After Reading," with stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand in mind. Not necessarily a compliment.
Arcane Gazebo (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Saw the latest from Ethan and Joel Coen last night. While it's not at the level of their best films (No Country for Old Men and The Big Lebowski, and reportedly Raising Arizona which I still haven't seen), it's still...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
Joel and Ethan Coen scored their biggest opener to date by raking in $19.4 million in ticket sales for "Burn After Reading" and helping end a seven-week attendance slide at theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
Joel and Ethan Coen scored their biggest opener to date by raking in $19.4 million in ticket sales for "Burn After Reading" and helping end a seven-week attendance slide at theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
... boasts a selection of more than 300 pics, the bulk of them premiering in town, such as Ethan and Joel Coen's "Burn After Reading," Kim Jee-woon's "The Good the Bad the Weird," and Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married."Fest organizers expect to sell about 250,000 tickets to the fest's 22 screens. There will also be free-of-charge screenings in 12 blue-collar neighborhoods as well...
Lost in the Frame (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading (dir. Ethan and Joel Coen, 2008). When the Coen Brothers are in top form, as they are in their new CIA comedy Burn After Reading and last year's No Country for Old Men , it makes you wonder how they can ever do wrong. And in fact, even their relative misfires--dizzy pastiche like The Hudsucker Proxy , brittle noir like The Man...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Brad Pitt is inventive, creating the lovable but not terribly bright gym worker, Chad, in the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading. Ethan and Joel Coen's return to way-out comedy after the rewarding rigors of No Country for Old Men, involves agents of various kinds (CIA, the Treasury) who can shoot straight but can't think straight. It's a sophisticated goofball - a Bizarro-world...
