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Executive producer of Coens’ films to speak at NCC
3 October 2008: Robert Graf, executive producer for the Coen brothers’ films “No Country for Old Men” and the current “Burn After Reading” will speak about his career in the film industry 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, in the Fine Arts Auditorium of Normandale Community College, 9700 France Ave. S., Bloomington.
The event is free and open to the public.
Graf was the executive producer on Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2007 Academy Award winning film, “No Country For Old Men.”
Graf worked with Joel and Ethan Coen brothers as the location Manager on the 1996 hit “Fargo.”

Once more, with feeling: Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading
2 October 2008: Its no surprise people Washington D.C are obsessed with screwing each other. But remember, this is a Coen Brothers movie. After making a movie about a bloody fiasco, the Coen brothers take ‘er easy with Burn After Reading. It’s an oddball comedy about morons extorting money from other morons. The brothers cast great actors to play the characters, especially Brad Pitt as brainless Chad …

Hollywood Blockbuster “Burn After Reading” Features Chinese Music From World Music Specialists ARC Music
27 September 2008: Hollywood’s newest Blockbuster “Burn After Reading” hits cinemas across the globe this autumn, and is the latest film to feature music from World Music specialists ARC Music.
Sussex, UK (PRWEB) September 27, 2008 — Hollywood’s newest Blockbuster “Burn After Reading” hits cinemas across the globe this autumn, and is the latest film to feature music from World Music specialists ARC Music.
Described as “a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy…” by the Guardian, Burn After Reading stars such Hollywood heavyweights as Brad Pitt, George Clooney and John Malkovich and is directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, the team behind the films ‘The Big Lebowski’, ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou’ and the multi-Oscar-winning ‘No Country for Old Men’.

Hollywood Blockbuster “Burn After Reading” Features Chinese Music From World Music Specialists ARC Music
27 September 2008: Hollywood’s newest Blockbuster “Burn After Reading” hits cinemas across the globe this autumn, and is the latest film to feature music from World Music specialists ARC Music.
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Sussex, UK (PRWEB) September 27, 2008 — Hollywood’s newest Blockbuster “Burn After Reading” hits cinemas across the globe this autumn, and is the latest film to feature music from World Music specialists ARC Music.

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‘Burn After Reading’: Mixed Nuts, By Kurt Loder - Movie News Story …
12 September 2008: Because the Coen brothers’ most formidable competition is with themselves, their new movie, “Burn After Reading,” can’t really compete with the best of their earlier films. Unlike such poleaxed classics as “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “Raising Arizona” and (especially) “Fargo,” the new film feels like an intellectual exercise — a sort of screwball-comedy genre dissertation.
Still, it is a Coen brothers film — written, directed and edited-by, as usual — and so it’s filled with mad dialogue and wonderfully strange performances. The story is all quirks and comic tremors. It begins at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where Osborne Cox (John Malkovich), an intelligence analyst with a second career in being perpetually pissed off, is getting the boot because of his drinking problem. Since he doesn’t drink all that much (never at breakfast, for example),

‘Burn After Reading’ Fires Up Weekend Box Office - Movie News …
15 September 2008:
The Box-Office Top Five

#1 “Burn After Reading” ($19.4 million)
#2 “Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys” ($18 million)
#3 “Righteous Kill” ($16.5 million)
#4 “The Women” ($10.1 million)
#5 “The House Bunny” ($4.3 million)

It’s been a long time since something other than a superhero or action adventure flick has led the weekend box office. Either we’ve entered the fall movie season, or the Large Hadron Collider sucked us all through a black hole and into a parallel dimension. How else to explain the success of the Coen brothers’ latest, “Burn After Reading,” which (get this, friendo) is the #1 film for the weekend?

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