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Clooney and The Coens sittin' in a tree... Not kissin', but makin' BURN AFTER READING!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the most exciting news of the day. I first heard about BURN AFTER READING when I had a brief interview with George Clooney at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in February of this year (CLICK IT HERE TO READ THAT!!!). He didn't elaborate, just said he'd do it in the Spring and that it was really funny.
Then there was no word on the project for a good long goddamn while. Now we hear it's officially official. BURN AFTER READING is about a CIA agent (and killer, apparently) who loses the disc to a book he's writing. Not much more info now than there was in February, but the starting date has been pushed back to August/Mid-September while Clooney finishes shooting and posting his next directorial effort, LEATHERHEADS.
Looks like this will indeed be Joel and Ethan Coen's next project, with the long talked about HAIL CAESAR! and SUBURBICON taking a backseat. BURN AFTER READING sounds great! Absolutely can't wait!
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It's been a while since they knocked it out of the park. Here's hoping it's a return to form.
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was great! They lost it a bit with "Intolerable Cruelty" and then a bit more with "The Ladykillers", but those two movies were still better than a lot showing at the time. Agree that they need to step up a gear or two with the next one though.
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I couldn't agree more, although I'm not sure if your including The Man Who... in your unbroken run. I am, I suppose, because I liked that one, although it was a bit of a downer. I'm beginning to worry the Coens have become infected with some kind of talent-sucking virus, which I suspect they caught from that Catherine Zeta Jones.
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I don't think the author and the killer are the same character, actually...
http://tinyurl.com/yk7q37
That's where this was reported some days back.
Clooney is the killer and he, apparently... well... go to the link to see... -
Something fishy about this project.
Here are my findings:
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From what I've heard I expected a simple date movie...but it was a date movie in Coen-style!
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as its detractors claim. It may have not been up to the Coen's best, but it was a movie just about any director would have been proud to have made.
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it was goofy fun. it just wasn't up to the Coen Bros usual standard of brilliance. Neither was the Ladykillers, come to think of it.
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But then I hate the Hanks too. I just thought the whole movie was a waste. Why create an OK remake when they can create such amazing original movies? It just pissed me off.
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...to wash the taste of Intolerable Cruelty out of my mouth. That film was nigh unwatchable. Where the hell is my special edition DVD of Raising Arizona?
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dear god let it be MADE!
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It's never gonna happen. Sadly.
Any special edition Raising Arizona is only going to be special by merit of including a fifteen minute featurette. They don't exactly go overboard on bonus materials. -
I was sure that was next.
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...is their next film to be released, it's in post production and will probably be out in early 2007. I'd like to see them adapt Cormac MacCarthy's new book The Road, it's some scary shit.
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Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers were both UNDERrated in my opinion. "Are you Wheezy Joe...?"
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Those three movies are the Coen Bros. equivalent of Beggars Banquet/Let it Bleed/Sticky Fingers/Exile. Sure It's Only Rock and Roll is a good album, but it's not nearly as good as any of those 4 were.
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. . . but since you named 4 albums & only 3 Coen movies, I'm adding Raising Arizona to your list.
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No love for Miller's Crossing? Come on, that's quite a caper...
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I was part of a conference call with Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Heder when School for Scoundrels came out. Thornton said he's already finished a movie with the Coen Brothers that's coming out in the future and that it's one of his top five favorite movies he's enjoyed making. Why wouldn't that be their next project? Any word on what that would actually be? It's not on IMDB or anything
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. . . I just love Raising Arizona Better. I love The Hudsucker Proxy as well.
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However they need to right the ship after taking a definite 2 steps back with Intolerable Cruelty and Ladykillers (and some think TMWWT). I suppose it's too much to ask that everything they do is 10/10. However this is TB where logic does not reign, therefore I DEMAND a return to form or I will eat a baby! And not just any baby, SHILOH PITT JOLIE!
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I mean, in many ways, as a work of art, BARTON FINK trandscends even the heady brilliance of THE BIG LEBOWSKI.
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Actually some of the articles about this, including this one, have gotten part of the announcement wrong. The CIA Agent and the killer are NOT the same character. Clooney will be playing the killer, but not the lead role of the CIA agent. "No Country For Old Men" is already finished and in part, like the above person stated. "Suburbicon" will not be directed by the Coens, but instead by Clooney himself at some point. Apparently they shyed away from making it and Clooney loved it so much he convinced them to let him direct it himself. As for "Hail Caesar!", who knows what is going on with that one.
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but tomorrow it could be Miller's Crossing of The Big Lebowski. The real problem with Intolerable Cruelty (I never saw Ladykillers) was that the earlier Coen films were too damn good. Intolerable Cruelty was still better than any cinematic abortion Hollywood is calling a comedy these days.
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is that FARGO,O BROTHER, and BIG LEBOWSKI are all in HEAVY rotation at my pad. Shit i almost wore out mt SE lebowski and i've only had it a year...and btw supernatural that was blasphemy
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is its better than most other films out there, youve become a slobbering apologist. Ladykillers was an embarassment - of course if anyone is due a free pass its the Coens but it doesnt change the rank fumes wafting off that film.
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Farrelly Bros., Wachowski Bros.
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Seriously, there aren't a lot of filmmakers around with the right touch for his stories, which is why his terrific novels become trainwreck movies. Clooney would be great as Mick Stranahan -- could even play Skink....
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that i made about robotic racism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuADFpwOYH4
be a pal and leave a rating and some feedback, it's four parts
the rest of the links in order are
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk5kQC4OEfs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51d2tn3Iq2w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T1GT2iAKFI
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Usually when people ask me what my favorite Coen brother film is, I usually respond by first saying, "Well, not counting BARTON FINK (because for me, that film ranks so far above regular movie fare that I can't even begin to form a "best Coen movies" list without leaving it aside), I would have to say THE BIG LEBOWSKI, or maybe FARGO, then again, maybe it's O BROTHER." And then, when all is said and done, I remember my absurd love of BLOOD SIMPLE as possibly the best film noir since the moniker "noir" was used to describe a genre of film, and MILLER'S CROSSING as just about the finest example of stylized dialog used in film since SUNSET BOULEVARD, I realize that I just can't bring myself to rank Coen brother movies (the early ones, anyway).
So after all that waffling, I usually just say, "Yeah, the Coen brothers are the shit." (Or some such silly phrase that doesn't quite sum up how much I love their movies.)
I do agree, though, their latest movies (barring THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE) have been letdowns.
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Oct 26, 2006 11:23:02 AM CDT
If I were ranking them, top to bottom, I'd probably...
by childe roland
...put Barton Fink at the top of my list, too, but for very personal reasons. It's not a movie I recommend readily or easily to just anyone. For that, we've got the infinitely accessible and no worse for it Raising Arizona, which is probably my number four favorite Coen film. O Brother is 2 and Fargo is 3. I like Lebowski, but it's overexposed and, therefore, inevitably overrated by each new crop of hipsters who believe they're the first to discover it (kind of the Stairway to Heaven of the Coen catalog). Blood Simple was solid. As were Miller's Crossing and The Man who Wasn't There. Hudsucker Proxy is a guilty pleasure. I also found some things to enjoy about Ladykillers. But Intolerable Cruelty was just ass. The Coens probably have one of the best records of any of my most watched film makers, so anything they do gets an automatic look. Guys like Lucas, M. Night and Tarantino have lost that privilege. Smith recently regained it. Zach Snyder is rapidly earning my respect, but he's got a long way to go before he gets Coen-style favored nation status.
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I'll have to wait and see, which is always the case with the Coen's films for me. Certainly somebody (or several of you - or many, even) will spew hate upon anyone that doesn't worship all their films (and maybe some of you will agree, don't mean to generalize either way). But peronally, I don't. In fact I find many of them to be misses. They're still better than a majority of what makes it to the theaters. And the Coens definitely have their own style. Which, again, seperates them from a lot of other artists working in their field and can make it (depending on the subject matter, for me, personally) a little easier to plunk down $10 to go see it. But I just don't LOVE very much of their work, in the longrun.
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I liked The Man who wasn't there. I could not stand the ladykillers. Intolerable Cruelty was okay, but below par of the Cohen's. Here's hoping that Burn after reading is good.
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