{"id":2179,"date":"2011-12-31T08:12:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2011-12-31T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T17:03:50","slug":"number-2-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Number 2 &#8211; TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?attachment_id=2180\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2180\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-TInker-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"12-31-11 TInker\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-TInker-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-TInker-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-TInker.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>An actor\u2019s showcase built around a spy story, \u201cTinker Tailor Soldier Spy\u201d was one of the most expertly crafted films of 2011.  It is also a fantastic follow up to \u201cLet the Right One In\u201d for director Tomas Alfredson.  The story set in the Cold War spy world is taken from a famous novel of the same name from famed British espionage author John le Carr\u00e9. The novel was been adapted before in 1979 in the form of a seven-part mini-series for British television. The Oscar winning  actor Alec Guinness was the star of that first adaptation.  In the 2011 theatrical update, another talented Englishman Gary Oldman plays Smiley. And although Oldman has probably never delivered anything less than top-notch work, I have to say that I can\u2019t imagine that he\u2019s ever given a performance better than the one he delivers in \u201cTinker Tailor Soldier Spy.\u201d  A thinking person\u2019s spy movie, \u201cTinker\u201d should expand in 2012 to be seen by American audiences whose British counterparts have already embraced it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=2176\"><em><strong><br \/>\nNext: Number 1 &#8211; THE ARTIST<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best of 2011, British spy film comes in at number 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}