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Friends of Duncan Film Club

Burn After Reading
2023-08-13 14:00:00 2023-08-13 16:00:00 America/New_York Friends of Duncan Film Club A special viewing of film releases. James M. Duncan Jr. Branch Library - Children's Area

Sunday, August 13
2:00pm - 4:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-08-13 14:00:00 2023-08-13 16:00:00 America/New_York Friends of Duncan Film Club A special viewing of film releases. James M. Duncan Jr. Branch Library - Children's Area

A special viewing of film releases.

It's funny, sometimes delightful, sometimes a little sad, with dialogue that sounds perfectly logical until you listen a little more carefully and realize all of these people are mad. Roger Ebert https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/burn-after-reading-2008


The brilliantly contrived plot is in the manner of classical farce but it leads to mayhem on a massive scale that escalates from a broken nose to an accidental killing, butchery by axe, and execution by CIA gunmen. It's the ingenuity of it all that holds the audience (along with the performances) rather than any succession of laugh-aloud gags. Phillip French, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/oct/19/comedy- coenbrothers


As it is, the Coens have constructed, with the aid of some of the best players in the business, a comedy that, like those other brothers called Marx, is spitefully able to make monkeys of practically everybody Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard.


Burn After Reading is a blackly comic illustration of Murphy's Law, set in the Washington world of CIA espionage, and populated with a cast of delusional dunces who are a wonder to behold. David Ansen Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/coen-brothers-latest-dark- comedy88973 

AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Movies & Film |

TAGS: | movies | film |

James M. Duncan Jr. Branch Library
kpayne@alexlibraryva.org
Phone: 703.746.1705
Fax: 703.746.1785
Branch manager
Kayla Selsky
Hours
We're closed Friday July 04 due to Independence Day
Mon, Jun 30 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Jul 01 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Jul 02 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Jul 03 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Jul 04 Closed
(Independence Day)
Sat, Jul 05 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Jul 06 1:00PM to 5:00PM
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  • Metrobus: 10A, 10B
  • DASH Bus: 33

For reasonable disability accommodation, contact jgregorio@alexlibraryva.org or call 703.746.1701 or TTY 703.746.1790.

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