Featuring an ensemble cast, Burn After Reading is the Coen Brothers' first directorial effort since they took home Oscar™ gold for 2007's No Country for Old Men. Recently-ousted CIA analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) loses a computer disc containing his top-secret memoirs at Hardbodies Fitness Center. The disc is then discovered by two of the gym's employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) who attempt to blackmail him for its return. George Clooney and Tilda Swinton also star.
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Genesis of a Poster
Andrew Percival, creative director of Mojo, tells us how the poster for Burn After Reading came into being.
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Carter Burwell
Scott Macaulay learns how Carter Burwell gets into the character of the films he scores.
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Laughter is the Worst Medicine
While a gut-busting guffaw is the perfect compliment to a comedy, Mikita Brottman considers whether laughing is really all its cracked up to be.
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Brad Pitt
As the most photographed man in the world, Brad Pitt is a movie star that hard to pin down. Nisha Gopalan charts the many faces of Brad Pitt.
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The Dude Abides: The Cult of The Big Lebowski
To mark the release of the 10th anniversary edition DVD of the Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski, Jason Guerrasio meets with Lebowski Fest founders Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt to discuss the cult of the Dude.
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Sleeping and Severed Toes: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen on the Art of Screenwriting
In a further trip into the Faber & Faber archives, we open the pages of Tricia Cooke and William Preston Robertson's The Making of The Big Lebowski to get a rare look at the reclusive Coen brothers creative process.
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You've Just Won An Academy Award - now what?
Burn After Reading is the first film from the Coen brothers since they won big with No Country for Old Men. David Parkinson looks at how other directors rebounded after Oscar.
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For the Love of Movies: Tilda Swinton's Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams
Alistair Harkness visits the remote Scottish village of Nairn where Tilda Swinton's upstart film festival is reconnecting the community to cinema.
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