The Turkish drama won the best actress honor for star Merve Dizdar at this year's Cannes Film Festival. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Sideshow and Janus Films have picked up U.S. rights to ...
The sensitive, serene film “About Dry Grasses” is the sixth submission from Nuri Bilge Ceylan to compete for the Best International Feature Oscar, and the 30th from Turkey, which has never received a ...
The latest discursive saga from the 2014 Palme d'Or winner ('Winter Sleep') revolves around schoolteachers in a remote rural region. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Of course, that’s not ...
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 ...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan makes long films, by movie standards, but short ones by Russian literature standards. There may be no filmmaker more consciously working in a novelistic tradition. The Turkish ...
It’s the sixth time Turkey has selected a Ceylan film to represent the country at the Academy Awards, though none have advanced to the final nomination stage. He won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2014 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan has responded to criticism regarding his participation in Iran’s government-run Fajr Film ...
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 ...
When we first encounter Samet, the solitary protagonist of Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s superb drama “About Dry Grasses,” he’s miserable. Being dropped off in what appears to be the middle of ...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (born 26 January 1959; Istanbul) is a Turkish director, screenwriter, photographer and actor. His film Winter Sleep (2014) won the Palme d'Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, while ...
Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan has responded to criticism regarding his participation in Iran‘s government-run Fajr Film Festival, saying that it should not be considered a show of support for the ...
About Dry Grasses, the latest film from Nuri Bilge Ceylan that played in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, was submitted by Turkey on Friday to represent the country in the Oscar ...