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The Coen Brothers pit dim-witted fitness instructor (Brad Pitt) against a retired secret agent (John Malkovich) in Burn After Reading, a ridiculously entertaining screwball spy spoof that opens Friday.
Published: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT - Source: Blog.Wired.Com - Read the articleLiteratureWired editors unveil their feature-editing process in a new blog
This month, the editors at Wired are trying something new with their ordinarily super-confidential production process?they're letting it all hang out. Senior editor Jason Tanz sez: We at Wired are engaged in what we think is a pretty cool experiment. We?ve just started a blog called Storyboard, and on it we?re documenting, in near-real-time, the process of conceiving, writing, editing, and designing a feature for our November issue. We?re posting pretty much everything?internal emails, rough drafts, edit memos, PDFs of layouts, marked-up page proofs, etc. The other cool thing? The story in question is a profile of Charlie Kaufman, the brilliant screenwriter behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, and Being John Malkovich. He?s got his directorial debut coming out in October, and gave us unprecedented access. So anyone who?s interested in his work may enjoy seeing how this piece comes together. It starts with an idea, of course?a bunch of dudes gathered around a table talking?and then comes the pitch, and in a few days time, you should see the rough draft. If you ever wondered how a magazine article is made, or if you're a fan of Wired, this is a great opportunity to see some of the most brilliant minds in tech journalism working with award-winning magazine designers to make it all come together. (Check out The Process, creative director Scott Dadich's blog, for updates on the design front.) Storyboard (Wired)( Lisa Katayama is a guest blogger.)...
Published: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:54:51 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the articleMoviesBurn After Reading
Starring:
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich
Review:
All the Academy Awards that Joel and Ethan Coen won for No
Country for Old Men produced an unintended effect: It made the
outlaw brothers respectable. That's got to be driving them nuts.
(Have any Oscar winners ever looked more miserable on camera?)
Luckily, the idiot-boy side of the Coens barrels out whenever
prestige threatens to choke their rebel spirit. Blood
Simple begat Raising Arizona, Barton Fink
begat The Hudsucker Proxy, and Fargo begat
(hello, stoner heaven) The Big Lebowski. For me, the only
time the slide into silly didn't work was when The Man Who
Wasn't There begat the twin low points in the Coen canon,
Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers.
Burn After Reading will have No Country
converts running for cover. Instead of a subtle walk through Cormac
McCarthy territory,...
Rating:
3 Stars
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