Tag: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

About Dry Grasses | Review

To Sir, With Ego: Ceylan Waltzes with Narcissism in Captivating Character Study The filmography of Nuri Bilge Ceylan is characterized by complex examinations of human...

2024 Lumières Awards: Anatomy Of A Fall, The Animal Kingdom, Last Summer & Disco Boy Land Noms

Naturally, all focus and the most nominations would go to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall (it leads in six categories) but this did...

2023 TIFF: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ilker Çatak, Monia Chokri & Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir Selected

Last year the Contemporary World Cinema had plenty of Cannes Film Festival gems in Aftersun, Falcon Lake, R.M.N. and The Worst Ones. This year's...

2023 NYFF: Haigh, Hamaguchi, Lanthimos, Triet, Glazer and Annie Baker in Main Slate

We were scratching our heads on where films such as Andrew Haigh's (retitled) All of Us Strangers and the under-the-radar A24 film by Annie...

2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10

We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3

A lengthy shoot, a lengthy post-production process and a lengthy runtime mean it's business as usual for our favorite Turkish auteur. A mainstay on...

You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or

Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny Depp in the French language no less) but...

Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!

Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme d'Or and this year he gets to be...

2023 Cannes: Glazer, Ceylan, Rohrwacher, Haynes & Ramata-Toulaye Sy Competing for the Palme d’Or

A surprise Wim Wenders project (Perfect Days), a rare directorial debut Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Banel et Adama) and a Wang Bing film (Jeunesse) are part...

2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls

It's official folks! The drop date has been confirmed. There'll be a couple of films that trickle in a bit after the announcement is...

Through the Looking Glass: Top 20 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022 – Picks 10-1

And now selections 10 down to 1.... #10. The Red Sky – Christian Petzold Basking in the success of his latest feature, Undine, which competed at...

Arte France Cinéma Give Coin to Hansen-Løve’s “Un beau matin” & Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Les Herbes sèches”

The Arte France Cinéma selection committee will be supporting a trio of eyebrow raising projects that will go into production in 2021. At the...

The Conversation: Top 10 of 2019 Thus Far …

Half-way through the last year of the decade, the same cinematic trends exist as far as theatrical releases in the US, those being the...

Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!

Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...

2018 Cannes: Gonzalez, Dvortsevoy & Ceylan In Comp; Plus von Trier, Bahrani & Gilliam Added!

The two omissions that were certainly going to be added in this pending announcement number two have been confirmed. But while Nuri Bilge Ceylan's...

The Conversation – Cannes Predictions VI: Middle East Repped by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jafar Panahi & Hiner Saleem

We can anticipate a handful of items from the Middle East, Africa, and India will populate several sidebars, if not the competition itself. Turkey,...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #11. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Wild Pear Tree

Wild Pear Tree Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns with his first project since winning the Palme d’Or for 2014’s Winter Sleep. His eighth film,...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #9. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Wild Pear Tree

Wild Pear Tree Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Writer: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan happens to be one of the most lauded director working today....

Winter Sleep | Blu-ray Review

Despite director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s lauded history with Cannes, having twice received the festival’s second-place honor, the Grand Prix for 2002’s Distant and 2011’s...

European Film Awards: Vogt, Östlund, Pawlikowski, Zvyagintsev
, Glazer & Ceylan Among 50 Contenders

This year’s European Film Awards are officially out of the gates with a not so lean 50 film submissions to select from. The 27th...

Palme d’Or Winner, Studio Ghibli Pair, “St. Vincent” & “Song of the Sea” Among TIFF’s Final Wave Items

Bill Murray is coming to Toronto folks. Actually, the film he stars in (Theodore Melfi's St. Vincent) is having its official World Premiere launch at...

Winter Sleep | 2014 Cannes Review

Ceylan's Talky Theatrical Epic unlikely to have Many Nodding Off Since it was first announced to go into production more than a year ago, Nuri...

2014 Cannes Film Fest: Always the Bridesmaid, but Now the Bride: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Wins the Palme d’Or for “Winter Sleep”

We might have changed the notion and definition of what the La Nouvelle Vague at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Youth...

Cannes 2014 Day 3 Recap: Ceylan’s Winter Sleep Receives Standing O, Amour Fou Delights

Cannes - May 16th When the mind needs sleep, the body follows. I started off the day on the wrong foot, missing my 9:00 a.m....