August
27
Coens' Burn After Reading Opens Venice
The Coen brothers have always been nothing if not idiosyncratic, and their trademark humor is not shared by everyone. It's always possible that their Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men was lightning in a bottle, a movie that caught the zeitgeist just the right way at just the right time.
Variety's Todd McCarthy is underwhelmed by their latest, the CIA caper comedy Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Frances McDormand, which opened Venice Wednesday night, while Peter Bart clearly enjoyed the movie.
I will catch it in Toronto. Here's the latest trailer.
Meanwhile the Coens are casting their next, the low-budget 60s period A Serious Man, starring stage actor Michael Stuhlbarg (The Pillowman) and TV's Richard Kind (Spin City) as a college professor and his brother, which is set to shoot in the Coens' home state, Minnesota. Unlike their last Scandinavian-inflected pic, Fargo, this one is seriously Jewish. So's their next script assignment: adapting Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
[Venice photos courtesy Awards Daily]




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