• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' Trailer (Oldman, Firth, Hardy, Strong)

Status
Not open for further replies.
T

Totakeke

Member
E

Expendable.

Member
new character posters:



previous one:

Tinker-Tailor-Soldier-Spy-01-sm.jpg
 
R

rpg_poser

Member
My favorite TV series of all time. I own it, rewatch it once or twice a year, and get something new out of it each time.
Oldman, please, please don't be a ham.
 
S

Speedymanic

Banned
Expendable. said:
pushed back to Dec. 9th....dayyyyyumm :(

At least that is more promising for awards play.
Click to expand...

Sucks. Oh well, I'll be sure to post some in depth impressions when it's released over here in a couple of weeks. :D
 
T

Timbuktu

Member
Somehow i missed all news about this movie until the trailer came on in front my screening of Rise of the Planet of the Apes; that was one of the best experience in cinema for me this year. And it's out so soon.

I just hope it gets the marketing it deserves, not sure i've seen enough in London when it's out in a couple of weeks (or is that pushed back too?) Pretty happy i've haven't read the book or seen the BBC series yet, The Spy who came in from the cold was pretty awesome.
 
D

Dead Man

Member
Timbuktu said:
Somehow i missed all news about this movie until the trailer came on in front my screening of Rise of the Planet of the Apes; that was one of the best experience in cinema for me this year. And it's out so soon.

I just hope it gets the marketing it deserves, not sure i've seen enough in London when it's out in a couple of weeks (or is that pushed back too?) Pretty happy i've haven't read the book or seen the BBC series yet, The Spy who came in from the cold was pretty awesome.
Click to expand...
I think that is his best book, but they are all pretty damn good.
 
E

Expendable.

Member
Awards Daily:

Extraordinarily strong notices coming out of Venice fro Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy. Among the proud UK critics, The Guardian gives it 4/5 stars (“Right here, right now, it’s the film to beat at this year’s festival.”) and The Telegraph goes all in with 5/5 stars (“a superb adaptation… the film is a triumph.”)

IndieWIRE‘s Matt Mueller:
Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, hot off the impressive child-vampire thriller Let The Right One In, makes an ideal candidate to handle Tinker’s chilly, melancholic intrigue and serve up a dispassionate portrait of miserable, paranoid spies. Gary Oldman too is an actor with the finely calibrated talent to wipe memories of Alec Guinness’ iconic performance as George Smiley, the nondescript intelligence analyst whose sad, drab exterior masks a fluent, animated intellect. Pile on a helping of stellar British thesps with career heat to burn (Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciaran Hinds, Mark Strong and Toby Jones) and this makes for compelling adult entertainment.

Alfredson’s approach to Le Carre’s tale is diligent, honourable, astute, a carefully executed whodunit that captures the stark drabness of early ‘70s Cold War Britain (the hair, suits and skin pallor all marvellously dreary), contains a clutch of nail-biting sequences and features a razor-sharp turn from Oldman as the doleful spy brought in from the cold to unmask whichever one of his former colleagues is leaking secrets to the Russians. Besides Oldman, it’s Hardy who makes the biggest impression, bringing a touch of humanity to this barrel of cold public-school fish as Ricky Tarr, the anxious working-class operative with vital information. Cumberbatch, too, has great fun as Smiley’s trusted inside man.
Click to expand...

The Guardian‘s Xan Brooks:

Nimbly navigating the labyrinthine source novel by John Le Carré, Alfredson eases us through a run-down 70s London, all the way to a municipal MI6 bunker, out by the train yards. This, it transpires, is “the Circus”, a warren of narrow corridors and smoke-filled offices, patrolled by jumpy, ulcerous men with loose flesh and thinning hair, peering into the shadows in search of a spy. There’s a mole at the top of the Circus, a “deep-penetration agent” leaking secrets to the Soviets. Control (John Hurt) has narrowed the hunt to five likely suspects. Now all that remains is for diffident George Smiley (Gary Oldman), working off the books and under the radar, to steal in and identify the culprit.

Oldman gives a deliciously delicate, shaded performance, flitting in and out of the wings like some darting grey lizard. We have the sense that Smiley has seen too much and done too much, and that a lifetime’s experience has bled him of colour. His eyes are tired, his collar too tight, his necktie a noose. Yet still he keeps coming, quietly infiltrating a first-rate supporting cast that includes Mark Strong, Kathy Burke and Colin Firth. Away in Istanbul, Tom Hardy raises the roof as Ricki Tarr, the tale’s bullish rogue element, while Benedict Cumberbatch is mesmerising as the well-groomed gentleman conspirator coming slowly apart at the seams.
Click to expand...

The Telegraph‘s David Gritten:

We’ve never seen Oldman like this before, and he’s simply stunning: his soliloquy about his only meeting with his counterpart, the Soviet super-spy Karla, is so engrossing you forget to breathe. Alec Guinness immortalised Smiley in the 1970s TV version of this story, yet Oldman is easily his equal.

There’s a terrific extended set-piece scene involving Smiley’s young colleague Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch) who must smuggle archived files from the Circus undetected. It’s funny, seductive and suspenseful all at once.

Much of the credit for all this must go to director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). He captures scenes with silky fluidity, dispatching his cameras into nooks, crannies and improbable angles, finding a visual equivalent to the story’s hunt for complex solutions. Alfredson is Swedish, which may account for his detachment in viewing the film’s setting as another country with three layers of ‘foreignness’ – the recent past, Britain, and the machinations within the Circus.

This is a British and European success story. It comes from Working Title, our leading production company and is financed not by Hollywood but Europe’s StudioCanal. Its key behind-the-camera talents (including Alfredson and Alberto Iglesias, composer of the cool, sometimes jazzy score, with its hints of melancholy and menace) are all from this continent.

The best compliment to pay Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is to affirm that it does what every great film can do: it makes your heart pound, gets your pulses racing and sends your brain cells into overdrive.
Click to expand...
 
F

fallengorn

Bitches love smiley faces
I now want a trailer that's like the old Casino Royale trailer.

"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is too much for just ONE Gary Oldman!"
 
H

Henke

Member
I saw this last night and only upon entering this thread did I realise that the Let The Right One In guy is involved. It all makes sense now, visually I found the film stunning in that way that's hard to pinpoint exactly. The movie is fantastic by the way, go and see it.
 
G

gerg

Member
I saw the movie yesterday afternoon, and despite finding it hard to stay awake in the beginning - I had had four hours sleep, and the screen was very, very hot - the film really was great.

I did find the ending a bit surreal, though.
 
A

adamsappel

Member
I need to see this soon. If only so I can stop saying the line, "There's a mole. Right. At the top. Of the Circus. He's been there for years."

Great book, although now I wish I'd waited to see the movie first. I know who dun it!
 
T

Tremas

Member
Saw it earlier today. Fantastic film, probably my favourite of the year so far. It's not for everyone, and I suspect those far too used to the frenetic pacing of most modern cinema will be put off by it, but I wouldn't want it any other way.
 
W

Wilbur

Banned
It's wonderful. Extremely well paced, impeccably acted, superbly directed. It isn't for everyone, but I'd recommend it to everyone in the hope they'd love it. Seeing it again tomorrow.
 
R

RibbedHero

Member
Watched the film on Sunday. Nice film, I wouldn't really say great. I felt it had odd pacing and poor character depth, but this is coming from a huge fan of the book.

The movie just didn't live up to the excellent book.
 
G

Gambit

Member
Acid08 said:
Benedict Cumberbatch is one hell of a name.
Click to expand...


A fantastic name!

I was in England till last Wednesday and therefore missed the film by a couple hours. Now I have to wait for it to show in Germany, which is in November! Argh.

Anyway, I´d greatly appreciate more impressions. So UK-Gaf, come to the rescue!
 
E

EliCash

Member
It's very good indeed, the whole cast were great - Tom Hardy especially I thought. Mark Strong too. Film of the year so far for me probably, I still have a lot to see though.

I have yet to read the book.
 
Y

Your Excellency

Banned
I watched this film. I concentrated, and I'm good at understanding films which don't give you everything on a plate.

I had no idea what the hell was going on during pretty much anything after the first 45 minutes.


If you haven't read the book or seen the tv show, do one of those first (both are highly acclaimed) as I imagine they do far more to improve your understanding of what's going on and the characters. The film is like an attachment to those.
 
K

KungFuBill

Member
Henke said:
I saw this last night and only upon entering this thread did I realise that the Let The Right One In guy is involved. It all makes sense now, visually I found the film stunning in that way that's hard to pinpoint exactly. The movie is fantastic by the way, go and see it.
Click to expand...
This. It'll benefit from a second viewing I think, at home, not in the horrible stuffy non-AC screening room 9 of my local cinema. Fantastic cast and wonderfully set up to boot. A strong contender for my favourite movie this year
 
F

FreeChicken

Neo Member
Saw this last night and really enjoyed it a lot. The direction was very thoughtful and really gave you all the information you needed during the film without ever having to spell it out for the viewer which I really appreciated as it is pretty rare in modern cinema. Also felt they captured the period pretty great, the whole film had the correct atmosphere about it throughout.
 
P

Peru

Member
Your Excellency said:
I watched this film. I concentrated, and I'm good at understanding films which don't give you everything on a plate.

I had no idea what the hell was going on during pretty much anything after the first 45 minutes.


If you haven't read the book or seen the tv show, do one of those first (both are highly acclaimed) as I imagine they do far more to improve your understanding of what's going on and the characters. The film is like an attachment to those.
Click to expand...

Well the first time I watched the tv show I didn't catch more than perhaps 50% of the plot, backstory. Loved it still, and then watched it again, understood more and loved it even more. It's a very very dense story, and even though they're bound to have grossly simplified it for the movie I imagine there's a lot of things to pack in in 2 hours.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

15 Films to See in October (what are you watching?)
45
6K
SOME-MIST replied
  • Locked
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy (New Screenshots)
25
3K
Speculator replied
  • Locked
Tom Hardy joins Batman 3
2 3 4
187
10K
Skiptastic replied
  • Locked
10 Films To See In December (what are you watching?)
2 3
142
10K
LOCK replied
Top Bottom