To those who may feel intimidated by the prospect of a three-hour-and-16-minute Turkish movie bearing the somnambulant title “Winter Sleep,” director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has this advice: don’t be afraid ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a masterclass on Thursday, Turkish film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan gave the initial impression of being an austere and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To this Turkish critic, Nuri Bilge Ceylan is our Mike Leigh and Anton Chekhov in one, with multilayered characters of social and ...
Bilge Ceylan — whose works besides “Winter Kills” also comprise “Three Monkeys” (2008), “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” (2011), “The Wild Pear Tree” (2018) and, more recently, “About Dry Grasses” (2023 ...
About Dry Grasses is long, dense, elliptical—and brilliant. A scene from About Dry Grasses. This article appears in the March 2024 issue. The sounds of harsh weather over a black screen, then a snowy ...
When is time not on the side of any Cannes film premiere? Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s About Dry Grasses, which had its world premiere Friday night, follows the middle-class melancholy of a Turkish rural ...
It would be an amusing experiment to send the screenplay of “Climates” to readers at Hollywood studios and see what kind of clueless response it would receive. The fourth film by Turkish ...