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The spy just happens to be being played by the most gifted comic actor who ever lived. You've seen the bit where Buster Keaton bonks a railway sleeper out of the way with another railway sleeper watch the whole thing, though, and you'll see it's a proto-spy film. Robert Pattinson wears some lovely suits too.

Whether it makes sense and what actually happens in the end is the wrong question to ask it's really a mega-budget attempt to invert blockbuster cinema at large. When Protagonist (yep) is recruited by a shadowy organisation which has the technology to manipulate time, he's tasked with taking out the villainous Sator who wants to save the world by turning it all backwards and destroying it. But with a little bit of distance, it all feels less like Nolan's audition for a Bond film – though there were definitely nods and winks here and there – and more like a genre-bending attempt to launch a sensation straight into your brain. (It was a deliberate artistic choice! Actually!!) Tenet was the first Christopher Nolan thinky-thriller to really split opinion. The release schedule knackered by the pandemic and everyone's ears were knackered from straining to hear what anyone's saying through the haze of noise and rumbling which permeates the whole thing. Here we've collated our favourite spy films of all time, from le Carré-style gritty realism to the outlandish espionage fantasises of Jason Bourne and (of course) James Bond, meaning there is something there for everyone – wherever your allegiances lie. They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten up their rotten little lives.' Related Storyīased on the book by John le Carré, Leamas is one of the many less-than-glamorous spies that populate the author's work and their adaptations, from an out-dated, out-numbered and out of style Gary Oldman in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy to a haggard Philip Seymour Hoffman, giving one of his final (and greatest) performances as a German intelligence officer in A Most Wanted Man. Now, with Faces Places nominated for Best Documentary at this year’s Academy Awards, Varda becomes the oldest person to ever receive a nomination.In the 1965 film The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Richard Burton's disgruntled secret intelligence officer Alec Leamas offers a choice appraisal of his profession: 'What the hell do you think spies are? Model philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not. The half-a-decade-plus age difference between JR – who is in his early thirties – and Varda – in her late eighties – also added to the pair’s unlikely frisson. However, Varda, best known as a French New Wave director, brought a certain level of delicacy, seniority and charm to the project. In a way, it is an extension of early art projects, many of which involve the production and display of huge black-and-white photographic portraits.

The movie sees the pair travel into the French countryside to meet and produce giant photographic portraits of local residents. Last year the artist and activist JR teamed up with the Belgian-French filmmaker Agnès Varda to release his documentary about life in small-town France, Faces Places. The artist's documentary, Faces Places is up for best documentary - here’s why the nomination is so important JR and Agnès Varda, co-directors of the Oscar-nominated documentary, Faces Places JR’s film nomination makes Oscars history

Academy awards best picture montage 1928 2011