Notebook Reviews: Tomas Alfredson's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyGary Oldman, a bunch of bald guys, and a whole lot of typewriters star in this curio cabinet John le Carré adaptation.
Gary Oldman, a bunch of bald guys, and a whole lot of typewriters star in this curio cabinet John le Carré adaptation.
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On the Internet, your trailers can run 3 minutes and 42 seconds.
How odd it is to go to the trouble of polling over 100 critics and tabulating the results only to announce your big year-end lists on a Friday evening when just about everyone but a pathetically
And on it rolls. David Fincher's The Social Network has taken the top awards from the New York Film Critics Circle: Best Film and Director. Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right has won three, though
Another good day for The Social Network. David Fincher may be sharing the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Best Director award with Olivier Assayas (whose Carlos also wins Best Foreign Language
The National Board of Review, which, Wikipedia tells us, "was the first group to choose the ten best English-language movies of the year and the best foreign films" in 1929, "and is still the first
• I picked up on something of David Fincher in The Social Network I hadn't noticed before—his appreciation for script's which split his protagonists into dopplegangers. In this film, the character
The scripts that seem to attract David Fincher's recent attention, keeping Panic Room outside for now, are stories that tell facts. I don't mean true things, necessarily, though both Zodiac and his
"Zodiac was the story of one obsession, and The Social Network is the story of several," Ignatiy Vishnevetsky wrote here in The Daily Notebook yesterday. Over the next few weeks, we'll be tracking