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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

January 6, 2012 by · Comments Off on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 

Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyTinker Tailor Soldier Spy, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and “My Week With Marilyn” lead the pack in the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ longlists, which were released by BAFTA on Friday.

The longlists narrow the contenders to 15 in most of the categories for the Orange British Academy Film Awards, which will be handed out on February 12 in London.

Both “Tinker, Tailor” (left) and “Marilyn” received 16 longlist mentions, with “The Iron Lady” receiving 14, “The Artist” 13 and “Hugo” and “War Horse” 12.

“The Help,” “Marilyn” and “Tinker, Tailor” led the way in the acting categories, with five mentions each. Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer were listed for “The Help”; Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench and Zoe Wanamaker for “Marilyn”; and Gary Oldman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, John Hurt and Kathy Burke for “Tinker, Tailor.”

Some of the oddities of the list: The Best Film longlist included “The Iron Lady,” which received mixed reviews, but not “Shame” or “The Tree of Life.” In fact, that Terrence Malick movie received only a single mention, for cinematography.

And despite a remarkable performance in “Coriolanus,” Vanessa Redgrave was left off the Supporting Actress list, which included Alexandra Roach and Olivia Colman in “The Iron Lady,” Judi Dench and Zoe Wanamaker in “My Week With Marilyn” and Melissa McCarthy in “Bridesmaids.”

The Lead Actress category contains four performances that are being campaigned in the Supporting Actress category for the Oscars: Berenice Bejo for “The Artist,” Carey Mulligan for “Shame” and Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet for “Carnage.”

Mulligan was one of a number of actors who were mentioned for two different roles. In her case, she was listed in the lead category for “Shame” and in supporting for “Drive.” Olivia Colman was listed for both “Tyrannosaur” and “The Iron Lady,” Ryan Gosling for “Drive” and “The Ides of March,” and George Clooney for “The Descendants” and “The Ides of March.”

In a reverse of Oscar voting, all the chapters of the British Academy vote to select the shortlist and to determine the final nominations. Members of the individual chapters vote then to select the winners in their branch.

Asterisks in the lists below indicate the top choices of the chapter members in each specific field. Since the chapter voting doesn’t kick in until the final round, those asterisks don’t indicate the likeliest nominees, but they do point toward the possible winners.

The films that were the top chapter choices were “The Artist,” with nine, and “Tinker, Tailor” and “Hugo,” with eight.

Final nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 17.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

September 13, 2011 by · Comments Off on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 

Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyTinker Tailor Soldier Spy, To celebrate the launch of the spy thriller Tinker Soldier as the September 16, we are giving four lucky users the chance to win a copy of the classic novel by John Le Carré and the CD soundtrack of the film Oscar-nominated composer Alberto Iglesias!

Set in 1970’s SPY TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER is George Smiley (Gary Oldman), an MI6 agent recently retired, doing everything possible to adapt to life outside the secret services. However, when a disgraced agent returns with information about a mole in the heart of the circus, Smiley is drawn back into the dark field of espionage.

The task of investigating which of his former trusted colleagues chose to betray him and his country, Smiley narrows its search for four suspects – all experienced urban actors, success – but the stories of the past, rivalries and friends are far from easy to identify the man who is destroying the heart of the British establishment.

Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy is in theaters September 16

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

September 5, 2011 by · Comments Off on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 

Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyTinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Any film of John Le Carré, ‘as Soldier Spy Tinker’ 1974 novel Cold War spy has the twin shadows of the book and television series that against him. How equal or exceed the 1979 five-hour version starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley – now played by Gary Oldman, recently lost by the film very seriously – a British spy who colorless different James Bond to fit more comfortably tearooms in a provincial train station on a tropical beach or a country club in the Caribbean?

Moreover, how quiet get as much information about retirement, ex-MI6 luminaire Smiley’s campaign to discover mechanical “mole right in the center of the circus” in a feature film version, while maintaining broad characterizations Le Carré Fruity and barbs about a change in Britain?

History is more or less like Le Carré had, about the strange set-Hong Kong Istanbul becomes, for example, Czechoslovakia and Hungary now. But the essence remains the same. A well-connected officials, silent, conspiratorial Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney, of course), Smiley recruits and an assistant, the young spy Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch, playing Watson to Sherlock Smiley), figure out which of his former colleagues is a spy high pass secrets to the Russians. Others are starting to believe the former head of control Smiley (John Hurt) had suspected for a long time before their expulsion from the service after a failed operation to sullen, tough as nails spy Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) in Budapest is one rotten apple in the upper part of the service.

Is Bill Haydon dilettante Peacock (Colin Firth), Percy Scottish Alleline acid (Toby Jones), rough, smooth Roy Bland (Ciar? N Hinds) and the Hungarian emigre Esterhase Tony (David Dencik)? The catalyst for the operation of Smiley’s new information revealed by the renegade agent Ricki Tarr, played by a brilliant and cunning libertine Tom Hardy. She only briefly to steal the show is Kathy Burke, fill the boots of tough old Beryl Reid as an old friend and colleague Connie Smiley Sachs, although it is difficult to imagine Reid delivering the line, “I am seriously underfucked”, as does deliciously Oldman: ‘George … bad, bad George.

Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (‘Let the Right One In’) blows a fresh continental style in the history of Le Carré without damaging the period 1970 British feel of its source material. There is a touch of ‘The Ipcress File’ his’ Soldier Spy Tinker as how industrialized the circus – the Circus Cambridge HQ service – turning inside portacabin structures similar to soundproof meeting rooms. He does the same moving the base of Smiley Paddington to what looks like a warehouse near Liverpool Street. Everything feels a touch more urban. There is also a touch of Scorsese on the road slips Alfredson chamber through history and some of the amazing images and the music matches the one chosen as the cut of an exciting and concise final assembly of Charles Trenet ‘La Mer ‘sung by Julio Iglesias.

Yet this is a world of dusty files, ramshackle caravan and remote schools to prepare. Smiley Oldman – more gaunt, grim and silent Guinness, but with enough of a voice track of the great man to honor his memory – even appears Trebor mint in your mouth in the run up to the great revelation of the film. The new script by Peter Straughan and Bridget O’Connor his late wife (who dedicated the film) is a marvel of intelligent and respectful adaptation. Sometimes you need your wits about you to keep up with a tangle of a plot, and prior knowledge of the work or TV show certainly smooths the ride.

Of course, some episodes of the book and the TV series they do in the movie, but it is surprising how much remains, preserved by a sly look fast image here or there. Anyone not familiar with the book or the series might find the latest revelation of the mole – a door opens and there it is – disappointing. But that’s exactly how Le Carré had. The spy story is about the journey – the process – and the ways of the road, not the final. Excellent cast of this film, written and directed by threatening to make the journey as exciting as the book of Le Carré.

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