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2008 Fall/Holiday Preview: #12. Burn After Reading

Everyone expecting the second-coming of No Country for Old Men, should instead count on a zany piece filled with plenty of dumb people. The ensemble of A-list actors steal the show.
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#12. Burn After Reading

Director/Writer: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and the Coens.
Distributor: Focus Features

The Gist: The Coen Bros. script is loosely based on the novel “Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence,” by Admiral Stansfield Turner, who served as director of the CIA from 1977 to 1981. The contemporary East Coast caper is about a CIA agent who is writing a book and he loses the disc.

Fact: Deakins was replaced by Children of Men‘s Emmanuel Lubezki (cinematographer).

See It: Everyone expecting the second-coming of No Country for Old Men, should instead count on a zany piece filled with plenty of dumb people. The ensemble of A-list actors steal the show.

Release Date/Status?: Venice and TIFF premieres followed by a wide September 12th release. 

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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