Frances McDormand & Joel Coen · Burn After Reading

--------------------------------- Frances McDormand & Joel Coen · Burn After Reading Starr · Rhinebeck July 14 --------------------------------- Post-Screening Q&A --------------------------------- Frances McDormand stars in this Coen Brothers classic, with an escalating plot of cheating and blackmail that begins when a CIA member’s memoir finds itself in the hands of two gym rats with plans to get rich quick. With mold-breaking performances by Brad Pitt and George Clooney, and a glittering constellation of actors adding to the ensemble (John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, J.K. Simmons, and David Rasche, to name a few), this slightly tilted farce about the American Dream is a crash course on situational comedy. (dir. Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, U.S. 2008, 96m) “That’s the paradox that makes this parade of folly so much fun: it feels as if everyone involved is having a high old time, and their enthusiasm is contagious.” – Newsweek --------------------------------- The CLOSE UP series is generously underwritten by Sara Arno, Rob Dyson, Wendy & Heidi Ettinger, Sven & Barbara Huseby, and Matt Davidson on behalf of Joan K. Davidson & The Kaplan Fund. Upstate Films programs are made possible by Arts Mid Hudson, Dutchess Tourism and by Dutchess County Community Grants Fund of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley ------------------------------------