I’ve stumbled upon some new Burn After Reading promotion photographs. You can see them in the movie’s multimedia page or right here;

• Clooney on stairs
• Clooney panicking near car
• Clooney shoots!
• Clooney and MacDormand do dinner
• Pitt with bloody snozz
• Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich
• Pitt relieves cramp
• Joel and Ethan Coen on set
• Clooney and MacDormand

I’ve no idea if it’s official or where it came from but movie blog Land of Movies has the below image heading their post about the Burn After Reading green band trailer which was released a few weeks ago. I like it and hope to see a hi-res version one day…

EDIT: It would seem this is the poster that us UK-based folks will see. Confirmed by Working Title’s website. They display a vertical version of the above poster, here it is…

The website for Tilda Swinton’s (soon to be seen in Burn After Reading) Scottish film festival, the Ballerina Ballroom Cineam of Dreams is live and has been updated with the programme choices of Joel Coen. He has chosen Busby Berkeley’s Dames and Akira Kurosawa’s High & Low (Tengoku to jigoku) . Dames will be showing on the festival’s opening night- Friday 15th August, with High & Low showing on Tuesday 19th. As most of you will know Busby Berkeley’s musical numbers were the inspiration for The Dude’s dreams in The Big Lebowski.

Thanks to Bunnie for mailing this in to me.

Amazon has a listing for a Burn After Reading book written by both Joel and Ethan Coen, with 96 pages, published by Faber & Faber but no further details at all. Now I’m no brother Seamus but it’s probably just the screenplay book. Faber & Faber have published a LOT of these books and your average screenplay is around 90 pages. 2+2=4.

So the evil PR person made me remove the two leaked posters but she did send me this instead. A really high resolution version of the approved, final US one-sheet. Click here to view/download it. It weighs in at a whopping 3.31meg and is 6038 x 4088 pixels.

Alright so they made me remove the new Burn After Reading posters but to [sort of] make up for it I have happened upon this during one of my websearches- the Japanese poster for No Country For Old Men. Lovley.

Hey all, in light of the new Burn After Reading posters I couldn’t decide which to use as my desktop so I decided to quicky throw all three of them together in one image. So you can click on the image below to download it and use it as a nice desktop wallpaper. It’s at 1600×1200 pixels but, if there’c call for it, I’ll make others.

If anyone out there with better Photoshop skills than me fancies knocking some Coen-related wallpapers together I’d be happy to receive them and share them with everyone else.

EDIT: Sorry all, I have been asked/told to remove the two new posters from the site by a PR person working for Focus Features as they are not “approved film assets”. Hopefully some of you grabbed them beforehand because I understand how we, as Coen fans, were excited by these posters. Maybe the final, approved versions will emerge soon. Boo

Not near as classy as the first but here are two more posters for Burn After Reading. There’s still a little bit of Saul Bass in there particularly in the form of the sworl of gun-toting arms in the bottom one. Neither are particularly amazing but they’re, you know, OK. Click ‘em for a biggerer version…

EDIT 1: Heh, a reader, Joshua, just emailed me pointing out the strange credits on these two new posters. I assume this is because these are not yet the finished article and these credits are placeholders for the final ones. If anyone knows different I’d be interested to hear from them. Thanks again Joshua- good spot.

EDIT 2: Sorry all, I have been asked/told to remove the two new posters from the site by a PR person working for Focus Features as they are not “approved film assets”. Hopefully some of you grabbed them beforehand because I understand how we, as Coen fans, were excited by these posters. Maybe the final, approved versions will emerge soon. Boo

Bit of a strange one this. Oscar winner Tilda Swinton, star of the forthcoming Burn After Reading, has started up a somewhat strange film festival in her home town of Nairn in the North-East of Scotland. It will be devoid of red carpets, premieres and paparazzi flash bulbs instead focusing on the beauty and romance of cinema itself. The program of movies is yet to be announced and, enticingly, she has roped in Joel Coen (who apparenlty holidays in Scotland regularly) to program two evenings of films for the festival. Although his choices are not yet announced, co-organiser Mark Cousins said, “They are as daft as a brush. If you went through 5,000 films, you would never guess them.”

Entrance to each of the showings will be primarily on the door at the cost of £3 or a tray bake (seriously) and the audience will lounge around on beanbags. The festival is called The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams and runs at the town’s old Ballerina ballroom between the 15th and 23rd August. The organisers hope it is a success and, if it is, plan to make it an annual event.

As soon as I know any more, particularly about Joel’s involvement, I will let you know.

Thanks to Jonathan for mailing it in. Link to the Guardian piece here.

Well kinda. A new version of the existing Saul Bass-esque poster has been released. It’s almost identical but official word is thus; ‘that while this one-sheet looks very similar to the old one, the position of the gun is slightly different. ‘ Indeed, if you compare it with the previously released poster the gun is now more horizontal and pointing directly at the binoculars of the dude on the right. In the old one the arm of the shooter was at an angle, pointing the gun up above the spyglass dude. See for yourself (I’ll try to find a better resolution version)…

How bizarre!