Happy pride month to Haydon and Prideaux
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
This is a Christmas movie because the Christmas party scenes are a downright genuis stroke of screenwriting ingenuity that tethered this story together.
And it gave us a JLC cameo and a scene of a cafeteria full of british spies singing the Russian national anthem to Stalin Claus.
Great movie. Maybe the greatest movie idk.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
Add an extra 20 or 25 minutes here and there (especially that choppy-ish first act) and this is a perfect movie. As is, it's in the conversation.
I'm so happy that this exists.
Long live my sad spy daddies.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
I watched the movie twice last year, read the book over the summer, finished the audiobook a couple weeks ago, finished the TV show today, and now here’s rewatch #7 or something.
Man, this movie just delivers. It’s something I never knew I wanted until I saw it. I just wish I had gone to see it in the theaters when it first came out. Would have been a transcendent experience I’m sure.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
Before I watched this, I read that in post production, Alfredson had a tough time cutting this down from 3 and 1/2 hours down to the 2ish it ended up being.
With that in mind, I noticed a half dozen or so weird editing moments, mostly when it came to dialogue. Random lines layered over transition shots like “Did you get the keys to Control’s flat?” that hint at a more robust runtime.
As it is, Tinker…
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
Film is by and large a subjective medium, except when it comes to the last 5 minutes of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Nothing beats it. Nothing.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
By sleeping on this, y’all are missing out on one of the best movies of the decade and (in all seriousness) the most intellectually and emotionally compelling mystery ever put to film.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
"If it's bad, don't come back. I want to remember you all as you were."
There is an oppressive amount of sadness to this film. Winning the war wasn't all it cracked up to be. The game evolved into a neverending battle between spies and secrets.
In short, a masterpiece.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
One of my Top 5 favorite movies of all time just gets better and better. I've seen this movie 5 or so times now and I've liked it more and more with each viewing.
P.S. As much as I want the trilogy to be completed, the fact that Alfredson is teaming up with Fassbender for an adaptation of one of my favorite books, The Snowman, is the best possible consolation prize.
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The Irishman 2019
I’ve been eager to revisit this after Killers of the Flower Moon. Being only a few minutes longer, it’s interesting to see how Marty utilizes each film’s length and to what purpose.
Killers spends every available minute immersing you into a time and place that’s been both overlooked and underserved before now, using its final minutes to reckon with its own role in the tragedy-to-entertainment cycle. Irishman puts a character’s glory days and shopping of their own casket 50 years later…
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The Irishman 2019
Criterion Collection.
Now that it’s out on Criterion, I’ll take a break from this. I want to really build the anticipation before I watch it again in a few years, since I can already recite some scenes from memory lol.
Any clumsiness you can attribute to the first couple thirds, whether it be youthifying, the actors playing younger than they are, whatever, is overshadowed by that last hour.
That last damn hour. Good lord. I love it as your basic,…