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I felt the need to reinstitute my old trailer of the day posts (though not every day, it’s just the trailer of today, maybe of the week, maybe of the month, who knows).

The new Coen Brothers film Burn After Reading had a trailer released a couple weeks ago (I provided a link then, but now it’s on YouTube). I think this film looks like a return to the old Coen Brothers humor that was notoriously missing from some less successful recent projects like The Ladykillers & Intolerable Cruelty. There is a great cast with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and many others. I’m reposting to try and contain my excitement for what could be the best comedy of the year.

I believe the film is going to start doing a festival or two (or so I have been told) in the next month or so, which means reviews should start popping up around then. Maybe it’s a bloated attempt to find that Big Lebowski kind of success, but this looks like a script and cast that could pull off what the Coens are famous for, black comedy with an edge. Who knows. Here it is:

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