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"From Turkey with love: return of one of Cannes favourite sons

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan poses during a photocall ...

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan poses during a photocall for his film "Three Monkeys" at the 61st Cannes film festival. At the festival, Ceylan's film offered a breather from a slew of hard-hitting movies on social themes with a highly personal family drama.

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AFP: From Turkey with love: return of one of Cannes favourite sons

CANNES, France (AFP) — One of Cannes' favourite film-makers, Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan, returned to the film festival offering a breather from hard-hitting movies on social themes with a highly personal family drama."

Article | 'Three Monkeys' at present is toast of Cannes

By M.A.M

I saw another picture today, "Three Monkeys" from the Turkish writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, whose "Climates" remains one of the few masterworks I've seen in world cinema this new century. Ceylan's latest is visually extraordinary and often arresting, a simple tale of a blackmail arrangement that leads to adultery and horrific recriminations. I'm talking to Ceylan tomorrow, so more on this one later. With its exquisite sense of composition and color, to be sure, "Three Monkeys" proves that Ceylan is leading the vanguard when it comes to high-def digital video's expressive possibilities.

How women found their voice in Turkish cinema

In light of celebrating Mother's Day this Sunday and the Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival continuing in Ankara until next week, we take a brief look at women in the history of Turkish

Pangea Day: World Peace Through Film?

A new global film festival called Pangea Day hopes to use the power of visual storytelling to foster peace and understanding.

2008 Altin Koza/Golden Cocoon



Bu yıl 2-8 Haziran arasında yapılacak ''15. Altın Koza Uluslararası Film Festivali''nde 12 Türk filminin yarışacağı bildirildi.

''Ulusal Uzun Metraj Film Yarışması''nda yarışacak filmler belli oldu. Toplam 29 filmin sunulduğu yarışmada, sinema yazarları ve festival sinema etkinlikleri koordinatörlerinden oluşan Festival Kurulu tarafından belirlenen 12 filmin, Altın Koza ödülüne sahip olabilmek için aday seçildiği bildirildi.

9 Historically Accurate Movies




Award To "beyaz Melek" Is Evidence Of Progress Of Turkish Movie Industry, Minister

Awards | 27th International Istanbul Film Festival

By M.A.M

INTERNATIONAL GOLDEN TULIP COMPETITION

The International Jury of the 27th International Istanbul Film Festival presided over by Michael Ballhaus and composed of Joan Dupont, Selim Eyüboğlu; Bent Hamer, Pawel Pawlikowski, and Kirsi Tykkilainen has decided to give:

 

found in Movie Maps of the World


You’d think that in the world of global cinema, the US is the dominant force. You’d be wrong. Think New Zealand, India and Iceland. Of course these cartograms (i.e. maps distorted to demonstrate some kind of information) fall into the third category of untruths enumerated by “lies, damned lies and statistics”. Having these these cartograms demonstrate other aspects of the film industry would undoubtedly result in radically different maps.


Cannes festival line-up unveiled

Movie icon Clint Eastwood will premiere his latest film, Changeling, at the Cannes Film Festival.

New Film

By Professor Rubenstein

Here's today's rave NY Times review of Gus Van Sant's new film about a teenage boy:

Maybe it will get down here before the term is over and we can all go.

Paranoid Park (2007)

 

Remembering Kemal Sunal, Şaban the Nerd

You might have heard of Recep İvedik, the vulgar Turkish anti-hero with a unibrow, breaking box-office records in movie theaters in the last month. Based on Turkey's very own Mr.

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