Burn After Reading (D.C. Onscreen, Part 6)
Update: 2025-06-12
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We're closing out our D.C. Onscreen series with a look at the interwoven affairs of the 2008 Coen brothers comedy Burn After Reading!
Join in as we discuss our favorite Coen Brothers movies, the perplexed reception the film got from critics, and possibly the worst street in all of D.C.
Plus: What's the best blind date spot in D.C.? Is anyone in this movie not an idiot? Does 2008 comedy sensation Tropic Thunder hold up? And, most importantly, what's the worst picture book in the current market?
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Next week: Batman (1966)
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Key sources and links for this episode:
- 2008 interview with Joel and Ethan Coen at TIFF (SpoutBlog)
- Composer Carter Burwell's notes on the Burn After Reading score
- "Coens Dumb it Down with Burn" (USA Today)
- "Venice Opens with Pitt and Clooney in Madcap Comedy" (Reuters)
- "Movie Preview: Burn After Reading" (EW)
- "Jeremy Renner Turned Down Hawkeye Season 2 Because He Was Offered 'Half' His Season 1 Salary: 'Did You Think I'm Half the Jeremy Renner Because I Got Run Over?'" (Variety)
- "Tropic Thunder R-Word Use Draws Ire" (CBS News)
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