One of the most anticipated films of the Venice Film Festival was Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which is a new take on John le Carré's 1974 cold-war thriller novel. The film remakes the well-loved 1979 BBC version starring Alec Guinness as retired MI6 agent George Smiley, called back to action to uncover a mole infesting the agency, aka 'the Circus.' This version features Gary Oldman as Smiley, with supporting players Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciaran Hinds, Mark Strong, Svetlana Khodchenko, Toby Jones, John Hurt, Stephen Graham and Kathy Burke. The first reviews of the film came out of Venice over the weekend and they position the film as one that fulfills most of the hopes we've developed based upon the material and cast. Notes from a handful of reviews follow after the break, along with four artful posters and one clip from the film.
- 9/6/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Remember Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye Lenin!, the brilliant satirical take on Communism and how political ideologies effect individual lives? Billie Eltringham's Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution is a film in a similar mould, with the clash of ideolgies and individual choices forming its leit motif. A UK-Hungary coproduction, this is though based on a real incident about a family that had migrated to East Germany from the UK in 1968 influenced by Communist ideology, only to flee from there after a few months when the family head found that his ideological convictions need not necessarily match up to realities of life under a Communist regime.
- 4/11/2009
- by Utpal Borpujari
- DearCinema.com
Rob Lane, who recently wrote the acclaimed music for BBC's hit fantasy series Merlin (soundtrack CD available here), is doing the score for The Damned United, a British feature film based on the David Peace novel about Brian Clough's short (44 days) reign as the coach of football team Leeds United. Tom Hooper, who has worked extensively with Rob Lane on TV shows such as John Adams and Elizabeth I and feature film Red Dust, directs the film which stars Jim Broadbent, Stephen Graham and Michael Sheen as Clough. Rob Lane's other recent projects include miniseries Tess of the D'Urbervilles and feature film Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution.
- 12/2/2008
- by noreply@blogger.com (Mikael Carlsson)
- MovieScore Magazine
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