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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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On Movies & Media

Totally Traumatized by Tinker Tailor? There's Help for That.

No, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is not incomprehensible. Not at all. ... Actually, I found it to be more comprehensible, in some ways, than the miniseries from the 1970s, in which Alec Guinness played Smiley. Difficult? Sure. Challenging? In ways that remind me of old-fashioned spy film, the movies that asked
25 Jan 2012 1 min read
On Movies & Media

Tinkering and Tailoring a Spy Series Re-boot

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is happening again. The new feature film adaptation of John Le Carre's seminal cold war best-seller is being produced by Working Title's co-chairmen Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and marks their next collaboration with Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan ("Frost/Nixon,
09 Jul 2009 1 min read
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