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AICN & FANTASTIC FEST present BURN AFTER READING - The Austin Screening!!!

Published at:  Sep 11, 2008 4:10:35 AM CDT

Hey Folks, Harry here... highly intoxicated after a day, night and early morning of drinking to intoxicated glory at the Hub Pub in Boston to celebrate the glorious union of John Robie and the babe he found to make him happy forever. Good times. Speaking of GOOD TIMES - we have a Coen Brother screening coming up in Austin - and I wanted to let you folks know how you could get there! Here's the plan - written by soberer minds than my own. SEE YOU THERE!





AICN/Fantastic Fest Present BURN AFTER READING Advance Screening Wednesday 9/10

The Coen Bros, fresh off their NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Best Picture/Director/Screenplay sweep at last year's Oscars, take a U-turn back toward LEBOWSKI territory with this new dark crime comedy/thriller. Ain't It Cool News and Fantastic Fest are excited about giving you this opportunity to see it first Wednesday Night 9/10 at 7:30pm at the Alamo South Lamar.

At the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Arlington, Virginia, analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) arrives for a top-secret meeting. Unfortunately for Cox, the secret is soon out: he is being ousted. Cox does not take the news particularly well and returns to his Georgetown home to work on his memoirs and his drinking, not necessarily in that order. His wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) is dismayed, though not particularly surprised; she is already well into an illicit affair with Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a married federal marshal, and sets about making plans to leave Cox for Harry.

Elsewhere in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, and seemingly worlds apart, Hardbodies Fitness Centers employee Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) can barely concentrate on her work. She is consumed with her life plan for extensive cosmetic surgery, and confides her mission to can-do colleague Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt). Linda is all but oblivious to the fact that the gym's manager Ted Treffon (Richard Jenkins) pines for her even as she arranges dates via the Internet with other men.

When a computer disc containing material for the CIA analyst's memoirs accidentally falls into the hands of Linda and Chad, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. As Ted frets, "No good can come of this," events spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, in a cascading series of darkly hilarious encounters.

To attend, email RSVP@FantasticFest.Com with the subject line "Feldheimer". Specify the number of guests you will be bringing (up to 2).

If you are a 2008 Fantastic Fest badgeholder, email BadgeHolder@FantasticFest.Com with "Feldheimer" in the subject line. We will cross-reference emails with our sales list so please use the email you purchased your pass with. Fantastic Fest badgeholders will receive half the available admissions.

Emails we be accepted through Sunday night at midnight.

The randomly chosen guest list will be posted on Tuesday 9/9 at noon.

Don't miss out on the year-round perks of Fantastic Fest. 2009 VIP Badges go on sale September 20th. Don't be left out.

BURN AFTER READING Opens at the Alamo Ritz Friday September 12.


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  • Sep 06, 2008 2:08:19 AM CDT

    This Will Rock

    by georges garvaren

    The Brothers have hit a new stride.

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  • Sep 06, 2008 2:13:52 AM CDT

    Harry?

    by georges garvaren

    What have you seen that none of us have or will see for some time to come? It's just you and me, baby. I won't tell.

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  • Sep 06, 2008 6:23:41 AM CDT

    Harry can u drink with the lap band?

    by broseph

    just curious?also how's the weight loss coming big guy?the coens rule i'm sure this movie will be good

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  • Sep 10, 2008 2:13:23 PM CDT

    The list is out!

    by jrbarker

    http://tinyurl.com/5z2bfe

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