On set photography from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by Gary Oldman. [ Source ]
Cominciamo dall'inizio (premesso che ricordatevelo sempre una classifica è per definizione una cosa estremamente soggettiva e nessuno deve trovare alibi alle proprie scelte, è che di parecchi di questi film non ne ho mai parlato, nè qui ne su twitter). Shame è stato il film che più in assoluto mi ha scavato dentro e rivoltato come un calzino, lo difendo a spada tratta allo stesso modo in cui farò per Prometheus che per me è la sintesi di quello che intendo per fantascienza. La talpa è un film di un'eleganza incredibile, un orologio perfetto scritto da Dio. Il [...]
This weekend the Indie Spirit Awards and Academy Awards will be bestowing their trophies upon some of the best movies from 2011. It is due time that I presented my highly subjective, personal list of favorite films from 2011. Beginners...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) As one of the four words in its title divulge, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is set in a covert intelligence agency. Based on a John Le Carre novel of the same name, the film takes...

Evil conquers all, once again. That's right bitches and it also flip-flopped Tom Cruise (just a little & I am sure he's used to it). Weekend Total // Total Total 1. The Devil Inside $34,500,000 // DEBUT 2. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol $20,500,000 // $170,200,000 3. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows $14,100,000 // $157,400,000 4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [...]
20 film usciti nelle sale in Inghilterra nel 2011. Il 2011 è stato per me un anno ricchissimo di visioni nuove e sorprendenti, davvero una grande annata. Consideriamo che questi film viaggiano tra le ★★★★★ e le ★★★★, e che c'è stato molto dibattito interiore tra le posizioni in classifica. Come al solito i miei criteri sono: a) Quanto ho amato il film, un calcolo in base al numero di volte che ho rivisto/voluto rivedere il film in questione (tipo The Artist io lo [...]
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when it seemed like maybe we'd already seen the best of Gary Oldman. After establishing himself as a fearlessly intense and committed film actor with Alex Cox's seminal British indie, Sid and Nancy (1986), he spent the next decade delivering unforgettable performances in roles ranging from Lee [...]
Alberto Iglesias provides a moody atmosphere in the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy soundtrack.
Alberto Iglesias provides a moody atmosphere in the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy soundtrack.

A new film adaptation of John leCarré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy prompts The Atlantic to look at the various incarnations of his greatest character, George Smiley . Across the sequence of novels in which he appears, peripherally or centrally, this secret servant of Her Majesty (like Bond, he works for British Intelligence, known in le Carré world as “the Circus”) is discreet to the point of self-erasure. Bureaucratically dowdy, rarely spotted in the field, a dull fucker by both instinct and training, Smiley drops no one-liners, romances [...]
NPR goes to bat for John le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: You see, le Carre wasn't merely a better writer than Fleming, but a reaction against him. Where 007 fought amusingly acronymed groups like SPECTRE, le Carre conjured a Cold War hall of mirrors in which spy craft wasn't about knife fights and hot sex, but about gambits and machinations in which it was hard to tell the good guys from the bad. His masterpiece was 19742s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy — not merely the greatest spy novel ever [...]

'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (UK Release: 16 Sept '11) // Words: Saam Das John Le Carré 's best-selling novel, 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' has already been adapted for television and the radio so it was almost inevitable that a big screen version would emerge. Any tension about the film's quality was immediately relieved upon seeing the cast list, featuring three generations of incredible British actors - including John Hurt , Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy . Yet [...]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a four word justification for the existence of that most onerous of Hollywood trends: the remake. However, unlike other adaptations of novels from the Cold War era, the story hasn’t been modernized the way the Bourne films have been. Director Tomas Alfredson does not set out to make ham-fisted metaphors about the state of contemporary intelligence, he focuses on telling a tight, old-fashioned spy tale. Like the original, this version of TTSS assembles the finest British actors working today, with a killer cast including Colin Firth, Ciaran [...]
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A full set of hi-res posters have been released for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Along with the stunning quad above, they feature stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy and Mark Strong in character poses, covered in code. They follow the first poster for leading man Gary Oldman, who can be seen as George Smiley here . Oldman plays George Smiley in this adaptation of John Le Carré's classic book. Set in the 1970s, Smiley - a recently retired MI6 agent - is adjusting to life outside the secret service. However, when a [...]