Blake's 7, Lost, Three Monkeys...
Nobody around me ever heard of Blake's 7. But this was the most important TV series to me when I was a kid. I remember running back home in a Saturday afternoon to catch the beginning of an episode and swearing at mum as she had sent me shopping... Now I see that a remake of Blake's 7 is possible:
Blake's 7 Remake In the Works
Speaking of TV series, who can beat Lost ??? What a fantastic work. I am somewhere in the 4th season and looking forward to watching the remaining episodes...
In the mean time, a happy moment for Turkish cinema. I could not see "Three monkeys" yet. I was very disappointed with his then latest movie: Iklimler (2006) [... aka Climates]
After Uzak, I had thought now this the perfection of his this style of filmmaking. He needs a change. That change did not come at İklimler and I don't know what happens in the latest movie although the plot summary implies that there is not much change. Some laments for the fact that he is that popular in Turkey. He is respected and not only in Turkey but everywhere artsy movies do not become bestsellers and with his intensely artsy movies I don't believe Mr. Ceylan expects more from the public...
AFP: Turkey's Ceylan wins best director prize at Cannes
AFP: Turkey's Ceylan wins best director prize at CannesTurkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan won Cannes' Best Director prize on Sunday for his searing family drama "Three Monkeys".
Ceylan, almost 40 and already winner of a batch of awards for his first four features, is regarded as one of the most distinctive film-makers of the last decade.
The misery of nationalists
Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan was selected best director at the Cannes film festival; this award is first and foremost a great success and source of pride for Ceylan and his team, but also for our entire nation.‘My lonely and beautiful country'
I do not know why I was so touched when director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, recently named best director at the Cannes Film Festival, said he dedicated his award to his "lonely and beautiful country."Mélodie noire à la turque sur le prix du silence
Le Monde (France), 18 mai 2008, p. 19Thomas Sotinel
Avec ” Les Trois Singes “, Nuri Bilge Ceylan s’aventure loin de sa veine autobiographique habituelle
Un notable de province, candidat à une élection, renverse un homme sur une route la nuit. Pour échapper à l’opprobre et à la justice, le chauffard réveille son chauffeur pour lui proposer d’aller en prison à sa place, contre rémunération.
Ce pourrait être un roman noir américain des années 1930 ou le début d’un Simenon. C’est le nouveau film de Nuri Bilge Ceylan, en compétition au Festival de Cannes, et le cinéaste turc s’aventure loin de ce qui a été son port d’attache. Il abandonne la veine autobiographique, emploie pour la première fois des comédiens professionnels et prend en compte le cinéma des autres. Le résultat est impressionnant d’intelligence, mais aussi déconcertant, tant Ceylan pousse loin son jeu de déformation du film de genre.
Turkish Director Fêted in Cannes, Ignored at Home - TIME
Tuesday, May. 27, 2008 By PELIN TURGUT/ISTANBULCelebrated Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan was awarded Best Director in Cannes on Sunday. Perhaps now Turks will finally go see his movies. Despite being heralded globally for his movie magic, Ceylan's films — slow-paced, poetic tales of individuals struggling against the bleak backdrop of modern Turkey — routinely flop back home. Distant, a previous Cannes competitor, was seen by just 20,000 people in Turkey — only one-fourth as many as saw it in France. His current Cannes winner, Three Monkeys, has yet to sell to Turkish TV, which has deemed it too arty."
School movie wins Cannes honour
French movie The Class, about school life in Paris, takes the coveted Palme d'Or prize at Cannes.No English or eastern flicks at the 61st Cannes Film Festival
The absence of eastern European titles is the main story at Cannes from 14 – 25 May, amidst well- known western names including the Dardenne brothers, Wim Wenders and Italians Sorrentino and Garrone
Sydney Pollack, Who Got Journalism
Director Sydney Pollack is has died. He made many excellent films, but the one that journalists remember best is “Absence of Malice” — a trenchant look at big-city journalism and its practitioners.
