He has long hair. He loves heavy metal. And he regularly takes the stage at major venues otherwise reserved for guitar riffs and headbanging. Whether tough guys or mothers, eccentric contemporaries or ...

To this Turkish critic, Nuri Bilge Ceylan is our Mike Leigh and Anton Chekhov in one, with multilayered characters of social and political complexities engaging through dialogue lines that feel both ...

It's not your average police drama, that's for sure. Not only do we never quite get to grips with what happened and how, but it takes well over an hour for the film to even reach the crime scene – in ...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s 2014 effort Winter Sleep won what is arguably cinema’s most coveted prize, Cannes’ Palme d’Or. Since then, he has been remarkably quiet. So it was with some anticipation that the ...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A master of patient, contemplative and deeply metaphysical filmmaking that stands out in an age of instant cinematic gratification, the Turkish auteur and 2014 Palme d’Or winner returns to Cannes with ...