Burn After Reading (US Version) DVD Region 1

With their overtly comedic follow-up BURN AFTER READING, the Coen Brothers return--about a third of the way--from the dark, dank recesses of the human psyche they traversed in their Oscar-winning NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. For those unfamiliar with the landscape of modern movie psychoanalysis, this puts the fraternal filmmakers square in the cruel, misanthropic, and farcical realm of their 1990s-era body of work, somewhere between the tragicomic crime thriller of FARGO and the disconnected noir-homage anti-storytelling of THE BIG LEBOWSKI, with 2007's NO COUNTRY retroactively adding new nihilism-tinged dimensions of smart skepticism to the proceedings. In a more linear trajectory, BURN AFTER READING also stands as the third entry, after BLOOD SIMPLE and FARGO, in what could be an unofficial Tragedy of Human Idiocy trilogy, wherein characters make the most outlandishly moronic moves to devastating consequences simply by adhering to true human behavior. Indeed, Carter Burwell's emotionally weighty score, which washes over biting scenes of explosive, anesthetizing belly laughs, is very reminiscent of his FARGO work. BURN is ostensibly structured and propelled by a spy-thriller plotline involving a classified CD lost by a disgraced CIA spook and found by two simple gym employees. But, in actuality, it's simply--amazingly--a collection of brilliant caricature studies interwoven by veracious, if Coenesque, social interactions, as epitomized by the pathos of the Frances McDormand character's precipitous quest for cosmetic surgery. The CIA superior who learns of the film's events (always second-hand and sometimes along with the viewer) doesn't know what to make of it, and why would he? This is the first Coen film in almost 20 years not shot by cinematographer Roger Deakins, yet the "new" guy, Emmanuel Lubezki (CHILDREN OF MEN), has created as visceral and emotionally fraught a high-definition cartoon as any since BARTON FINK.

3 stars out of 4 -- "[T]he brothers have conjured a crazy-quilt comic thriller that takes on our growing national stupidity in the form of a sex farce. The result is wildly funny." - Peter, Travers (Rolling Stone Critic), Rolling Stone, 09/18/2008

"This latest offering from the Coen brothers is an outlandish dark farce/spy spoof with some hilarious characters and quotable lines." - Claudia, Puig (USA TODAY CRITIC), USA Today, 09/12/2008

"Pitt, a newcomer to the Coen's world, is completely at ease with this material....The actor matches McDormand laugh for laugh playing a doltish accomplice who means well but is not really cut out for the espionage game." - Kenneth, Turan (Los Angeles Times Critic), Los Angeles Times, 09/12/2008

3 stars out of 5 -- "BURN AFTER READING has some outstanding comic highlights -- many of them courtesy of Pitt himself. Loose-limbed and absent-minded, his hyper performance stays the right side of mannered." - Matthew, Leyland (Film Critic), Total Film, 11/01/2008

"[T]he dialogue pops as usual with musical idiom....[The] perfectly shifting plot mechanics hold appeal in an era wanting for screenwriting basics." - Nicolas, Rapold (Film Comment Critic), Sight and Sound, 11/01/2008

4 stars out of 5 -- "This is precision-built madness. Beneath these chattering lunatics and the pinballing plot lies an intricacy worthy of Kubrick." - Ian, Nathan (Empire Film Critic), Empire, 11/01/2008

	English 繁體中文 简体中文 日本語 한국어
Product Title:	Burn After Reading (US Version) Burn After Reading (US Version) Burn After Reading (US Version) Burn After Reading (US Version) Burn After Reading (US Version)
Artist Name(s):	Brad Pitt (Actor) | George Clooney (Actor) | Tilda Swinton (Actor) | Richard Jenkins (Actor) | Joel Coen | Ethan Coen | Bo Welch | Mark Kozelek (Actor) | Diablo Cody (Actor) | Geoff Boyle (Actor) 畢彼特 (Actor) | 佐治 古尼 (Actor) | 蒂達史雲頓 (Actor) | Richard Jenkins (Actor) | 祖爾高安 | Ethan Coen | Bo Welch | Mark Kozelek (Actor) | Diablo Cody (Actor) | Geoff Boyle (Actor) 毕彼特 (Actor) | 佐治 古尼 (Actor) | 蒂达史云顿 (Actor) | Richard Jenkins (Actor) | 祖尔高安 | Ethan Coen | Bo Welch | Mark Kozelek (Actor) | Diablo Cody (Actor) | Geoff Boyle (Actor) ブラッド・ピット (Actor) | ジョージ・クルーニー (Actor) | ティルダ・スウィントン (Actor) | Ｒｉｃｈａｒｄ Ｊｅｎｋｉｎｓ (Actor) | Joel Coen | Ethan Coen | Bo Welch | Mark Kozelek (Actor) | Diablo Cody (Actor) | Geoff Boyle (Actor) 브래드 피트 (Actor) | 조지 클루니 (Actor) | Tilda Swinton (Actor) | Richard Jenkins (Actor) | Joel Coen | Ethan Coen | Bo Welch | Mark Kozelek (Actor) | Diablo Cody (Actor) | Geoff Boyle (Actor)
Director:	Joel Coen | Ethan Coen 祖爾高安 | Ethan Coen 祖尔高安 | Ethan Coen Joel Coen | Ethan Coen Joel Coen | Ethan Coen
Producer:	Joel Coen | Ethan Coen | Bo Welch | Diablo Cody 祖爾高安 | Ethan Coen | Bo Welch | Diablo Cody 祖尔高安 | Ethan Coen | Bo Welch | Diablo Cody Joel Coen | Ethan Coen | Bo Welch | Diablo Cody Joel Coen | Ethan Coen | Bo Welch | Diablo Cody
	Manage My Personalized Product Alerts
Release Date:	2008-12-21
UPC Code:	025195016490
Language:	English
Country of Origin:	United States
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Color Information:	Color
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	R (MPAA)
Publisher:	Universal Studios Home Video
Package Weight:	100 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1013018762

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

DVD Features:

Snap Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Featurette:
1. Finding the Burn
2. DC Insiders Run Amuck
3. Welcome Back, George