Edward Berger To Address Israel’s Sam Spiegel International Film Lab
All Quiet on the Western front helmer Edward Berger is to host a masterclass at the launch of the 12th edition of Israel’s Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. Coming amidst the devastating Israel-Gaza crisis, the lab, which has in the past unearthed big Israeli hits, has also unveiled its projects lineup, including shows from Poland, the Netherlands, Croatia, France, Hungary and Israel. Berger will give a masterclass to all participants, fresh off the back of his Oscar for Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front and coming as war rages in Israel. “We believe in the power of storytelling, freedom of speech and creative expression, to be able to hold complex situations like the current war in Israel, and believe an international meeting point for young filmmakers is of major importance these days,” said Mor Eldar, the lab’s director.
All Quiet on the Western front helmer Edward Berger is to host a masterclass at the launch of the 12th edition of Israel’s Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. Coming amidst the devastating Israel-Gaza crisis, the lab, which has in the past unearthed big Israeli hits, has also unveiled its projects lineup, including shows from Poland, the Netherlands, Croatia, France, Hungary and Israel. Berger will give a masterclass to all participants, fresh off the back of his Oscar for Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front and coming as war rages in Israel. “We believe in the power of storytelling, freedom of speech and creative expression, to be able to hold complex situations like the current war in Israel, and believe an international meeting point for young filmmakers is of major importance these days,” said Mor Eldar, the lab’s director.
- 12/4/2023
- by Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Who will win the Palme this year? Todd Haynes' lesbian romance "Carol"? Yorgos Lanthimos' macabre future-romance "The Lobster"? Paolo Sorrentino's paean to life and death "Youth"? No question, a few serious contenders have emerged, but we won't know until awards unveil May 24. In the meantime, enjoy these five powerful Palme d'Or winners at home. "Winter Sleep" (2014) Watching Nuri Bilge Ceylan's near-four-hour Turkish drama sounds like a lot of work. And it is. The first time I saw it, it felt like nothing but a series of moving pictures of empty individuals bloviating about life, work, pride, class and intellect. But upon closer inspection, this is a haunting masterpiece of world-building. Ceylan checks us into the Anatolian mountaintop hotel that is a psychological prison for three people — has-been writer/actor Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), his young trophy wife Nihal (Melisa Sozen) and his careworn, trundling sister Necla (Demet Akbag...
- 5/21/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Snow falls on the Cappadocia Mountains as turmoil boils up indoors between a wealthy writer and his wife. At least that would the superficial way to describe master filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest intimate epic, which earned him the Palme d’Or award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. But with Ceylan’s work nothing is ever shallow. His affinity to elicit nuanced vulnerability from both his actors and the landscape is present in every frame of this 196-minute marvel of a film. Yes, it’s a film that expands for over three hours, which takes place in just a few locations and focuses on a small cast. That, however, should not deter anyone from experiencing this riveting and powerful work. Time is not an issue for Ceylan’s calibrated pacing, and it never becomes one for the viewer that is willing to dive in fully into the emotional and philosophical odyssey that is “Winter Sleep."
Read More: Sydney Levine's Feature Piece on "Winter Sleep" from Cannes 2014
Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), the owner of a charmingly rustic hotel, is having issues with a family of unruly tenants at a different property within the mountain community. He rarely bothers with micromanaging any of his business. His butler/handyman Hidayet (Ayberk Pekcan) handles all the daily operations that would otherwise occupy Aydin’s time. Instead, the refined middle-aged man dedicates his days to writing. Aydin writes articles about relevant occurrences in the small town, and he is particularly drawn to the lack of righteousness he sees in certain religious leaders. In fact, his own self-declared virtue is often what scares people away. He is a man of principles who, unconsciously perhaps, uses such qualities against the flawed individuals that surround him.
Both his young wife Nihal (Melisa Sözen) and his divorced sister Necla (Demet Akbag) feel weak under his unspoken and all-consuming superiority. On the one hand, Nihal wants to find a small amount of independence by doing charity work without Aydin’s supervision. Raising money without his help would grant her a sense of fulfillment outside of his domain. Necla, on the other hand, is obsessed with the idea of defeating evil by passively accepting it. She claims that by not fighting evil the perpetrator will experience shame. Aydin finds this philosophy absurd, probably even more so because of a recent incident with the troublemaking tenants. This concoction of complex ideologies and internal conflicts makes for thought provoking conversations throughout the film.
“Winter Sleep” is evidently a dialogue driven film that was inspired by Chekhov’s stories, which Ceylan avidly transformed into the perfect material for his poetic vision. Complementing the searing debates about class and human nature are the spectacular vistas that characterize the director’s work. The vast snowy landscape serves as ominous backdrop for the characters’ realizations about one another. Like in his previous works, Ceylan once again correlates his protagonists’ internal state with the natural environment and the weather. Their introspective thoughts translate into the dangerous beauty of his chosen locations.
Indoors, the Caravaggesque cinematography by Ceylan's longtime collaborator Gökhan Tiryaki is warm and elegant. The images are just stylized enough to be noticed but still minimalistic in order for the outstanding performances to shine. Veteran Turkish actor Haluk Bilginer is a subdued force of nature. Aydin is a man whose convictions define him. There is little room in his idiosyncratic lifestyle to notice the suffocating nature of his behavior. Bilginer captures that self-righteousness with unsettling easy. As the plot thickness and his worldview is challenged repeatedly, doubt starts to set in. Yet, as he himself puts it when confronting timid Nihal, he is not entirely to blame for his monstrous outbursts. “Idolizing a man and then being mad at him because he’s not a god. Do you think that’s fair?” exclaims Aydin. The same monster that is freighting is also capable of kindness, and is this grading duality that is so difficult to accept. Ceylan doesn’t work with absolutes.
Among the marvelously cast ensemble, one performer that stand out is young Emirhan Doruktutan who plays Ilyas, and Nejat Isler who is his father Ismail. With hardly any lines the boy manages to inflict tremendous pain. His penetrating look conveys immeasurable anger towards Aydin and his family for humiliating his father. At the same time, Ismail’s quietly deranged grin is lethal in crucial scenes. Anguish masked with pride is visible on both of their faces, which is definitely an affecting sight.
When it comes to exploring morality and the ambiguity of his characters’ actions, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s has an infinite talent for subtly. He allows each scene to play to its limit. The hypnotizing back and forth between his actors is clearly the result of profound work and trust between them and the filmmaker. Sure, some people will undoubtedly be put off by the running time or the specific storytelling approach that Ceylan employs to slow cook the drama. The way he permeates the plot with a potent dose of big ideas dissected through a very personal narrative is something that asks for the audience to be receptive and to go all the way. Nevertheless, “Winter Sleep” is a ravishingly beautiful testament to Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s incredible talent for precise observation. Give yourself the chance to be affected. Without a doubt I was, from minute 1 to minute 196, absorbed by the impeccable mastery of one of Ceylan’s most accomplished masterpieces.
Read More: Sydney Levine's Feature Piece on "Winter Sleep" from Cannes 2014
Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), the owner of a charmingly rustic hotel, is having issues with a family of unruly tenants at a different property within the mountain community. He rarely bothers with micromanaging any of his business. His butler/handyman Hidayet (Ayberk Pekcan) handles all the daily operations that would otherwise occupy Aydin’s time. Instead, the refined middle-aged man dedicates his days to writing. Aydin writes articles about relevant occurrences in the small town, and he is particularly drawn to the lack of righteousness he sees in certain religious leaders. In fact, his own self-declared virtue is often what scares people away. He is a man of principles who, unconsciously perhaps, uses such qualities against the flawed individuals that surround him.
Both his young wife Nihal (Melisa Sözen) and his divorced sister Necla (Demet Akbag) feel weak under his unspoken and all-consuming superiority. On the one hand, Nihal wants to find a small amount of independence by doing charity work without Aydin’s supervision. Raising money without his help would grant her a sense of fulfillment outside of his domain. Necla, on the other hand, is obsessed with the idea of defeating evil by passively accepting it. She claims that by not fighting evil the perpetrator will experience shame. Aydin finds this philosophy absurd, probably even more so because of a recent incident with the troublemaking tenants. This concoction of complex ideologies and internal conflicts makes for thought provoking conversations throughout the film.
“Winter Sleep” is evidently a dialogue driven film that was inspired by Chekhov’s stories, which Ceylan avidly transformed into the perfect material for his poetic vision. Complementing the searing debates about class and human nature are the spectacular vistas that characterize the director’s work. The vast snowy landscape serves as ominous backdrop for the characters’ realizations about one another. Like in his previous works, Ceylan once again correlates his protagonists’ internal state with the natural environment and the weather. Their introspective thoughts translate into the dangerous beauty of his chosen locations.
Indoors, the Caravaggesque cinematography by Ceylan's longtime collaborator Gökhan Tiryaki is warm and elegant. The images are just stylized enough to be noticed but still minimalistic in order for the outstanding performances to shine. Veteran Turkish actor Haluk Bilginer is a subdued force of nature. Aydin is a man whose convictions define him. There is little room in his idiosyncratic lifestyle to notice the suffocating nature of his behavior. Bilginer captures that self-righteousness with unsettling easy. As the plot thickness and his worldview is challenged repeatedly, doubt starts to set in. Yet, as he himself puts it when confronting timid Nihal, he is not entirely to blame for his monstrous outbursts. “Idolizing a man and then being mad at him because he’s not a god. Do you think that’s fair?” exclaims Aydin. The same monster that is freighting is also capable of kindness, and is this grading duality that is so difficult to accept. Ceylan doesn’t work with absolutes.
Among the marvelously cast ensemble, one performer that stand out is young Emirhan Doruktutan who plays Ilyas, and Nejat Isler who is his father Ismail. With hardly any lines the boy manages to inflict tremendous pain. His penetrating look conveys immeasurable anger towards Aydin and his family for humiliating his father. At the same time, Ismail’s quietly deranged grin is lethal in crucial scenes. Anguish masked with pride is visible on both of their faces, which is definitely an affecting sight.
When it comes to exploring morality and the ambiguity of his characters’ actions, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s has an infinite talent for subtly. He allows each scene to play to its limit. The hypnotizing back and forth between his actors is clearly the result of profound work and trust between them and the filmmaker. Sure, some people will undoubtedly be put off by the running time or the specific storytelling approach that Ceylan employs to slow cook the drama. The way he permeates the plot with a potent dose of big ideas dissected through a very personal narrative is something that asks for the audience to be receptive and to go all the way. Nevertheless, “Winter Sleep” is a ravishingly beautiful testament to Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s incredible talent for precise observation. Give yourself the chance to be affected. Without a doubt I was, from minute 1 to minute 196, absorbed by the impeccable mastery of one of Ceylan’s most accomplished masterpieces.
- 12/19/2014
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Peculiarly, pathos has proven to be a more reliable element in comedies than in dramas. The pitiful man tends to incite a curious form of laughter than he would empathy, especially when his piteousness is welded with a muted strain of conceit. This is particularly a male phenomenon as well. By account of his built-in vanity and his lack of natural poise, the ultimate nonfulfillment of man, more than woman, almost seems deserved, as though karma has finally come forth to give the excessively proud its comeuppance. Since even in sadness these men refrain from grace, this blow to their vanity turns humorous, their every pretense conspicuous to a detached audience and their every lie palpable. We are prompted to engage with the work by laughing at the ignoble fool’s ignorance of everyone’s cognizance, as he lies and patronizes, while everybody sees through him except for himself. He...
- 11/3/2014
- by Morad Moazami
- SoundOnSight
Winter Sleep
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Written by Ebru Ceylan and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, based on stories by Anton Chekhov
Turkey, 2014
Turkey is a place of complicated ethos and Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s meandering three-hour work attempts to obliquely capture some of this complexity where his previous films would simply obliterate the vast swathes of Turkey’s predominantly “oriental”, non-secular, less Cannes-friendly identity. With this umpteenth filmic attempt at decorticating the ennui of the westernised, urban Turkish middle class, Ceylan, the poster boy for the part of Turkey that views itself as a precinct of Europe, and a Cannes darling, eventually succeeded in winning the Palme d’Or. Ceylan has been one of the directors ‘subscribed’ to Cannes (think the Dardenne brothers, Kiarostami, Von Trier, recently joined by newly anointed Xavier Dolan, directors whose films tend to be selected not on individual merit but on the directors...
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Written by Ebru Ceylan and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, based on stories by Anton Chekhov
Turkey, 2014
Turkey is a place of complicated ethos and Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s meandering three-hour work attempts to obliquely capture some of this complexity where his previous films would simply obliterate the vast swathes of Turkey’s predominantly “oriental”, non-secular, less Cannes-friendly identity. With this umpteenth filmic attempt at decorticating the ennui of the westernised, urban Turkish middle class, Ceylan, the poster boy for the part of Turkey that views itself as a precinct of Europe, and a Cannes darling, eventually succeeded in winning the Palme d’Or. Ceylan has been one of the directors ‘subscribed’ to Cannes (think the Dardenne brothers, Kiarostami, Von Trier, recently joined by newly anointed Xavier Dolan, directors whose films tend to be selected not on individual merit but on the directors...
- 10/28/2014
- by Zornitsa
- SoundOnSight
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep won this year's Cannes Film Festival top prize and will play the Toronto Film Festival, but I'm not sure I'll be taking it in unless it fits a time slot where the three hour and 16 minute running time doesn't force me to miss two to three films I could otherwise see. After all, Adopt Films has already picked this one up for release later this year so it isn't like I won't ever have a chance to see it. That said, I really can't wait to see what all the fuss is about. The story centers on Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), a former actor, who runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal (Melisa Sozen) with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla (Demet Akbag) who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall,...
- 8/28/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palme d’Or winner has found its Us home.
Adopt Films has earmarked a year-end release in time for awards season consideration after striking a deal with sales agent Memento Films International.
Winter Sleep centres on the drama that unfolds at a mountaintop hotel run by a former actor. Ceylan co-wrote the screenplay with Ebru Ceylan
Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sozen, Demet Akbag, Ayberk Peckan, Serhat Kilic, Nejat Isler, Tmaer Levent and Nadir Saribacak star in the Turkey-Germany-France co-production.
Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan produced and Sezgi Uztun served as executive producer.
Adopt Films has earmarked a year-end release in time for awards season consideration after striking a deal with sales agent Memento Films International.
Winter Sleep centres on the drama that unfolds at a mountaintop hotel run by a former actor. Ceylan co-wrote the screenplay with Ebru Ceylan
Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sozen, Demet Akbag, Ayberk Peckan, Serhat Kilic, Nejat Isler, Tmaer Levent and Nadir Saribacak star in the Turkey-Germany-France co-production.
Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan produced and Sezgi Uztun served as executive producer.
- 6/23/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Winter Sleep Trailer. Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s Winter Sleep / Kis uykusu (2014) Turkish movie trailer stars Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag, Serhat Mustafa Kiliç, and Nejat Isler. Winter Sleep‘s plot synopsis: “Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has [...]
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Continue reading: Winter Sleep (2014) Turkish Movie Trailer: Solitude Brings out the Worst...
- 6/2/2014
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
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 Bilge Ceylan’s follow-up to his existential and noirish Once a Upon a Time in Anatolia also runs well beyond the three-hour mark, fans of austere and uncompromising cinema rejoiced, for we could feel a swelling sense that Ceylan was approaching a zenith in his artistry and ambition. In truth, it is and it isn’t. A talkathon that may have been derived from a script of 300 pages, Winter Sleep is both Ceylan’s most epic and one of his most intimate films; indeed, it could easily have been conceived as a stage play rather than a film – not least because of the film’s multiple allusions to Shakespeare. Beautiful, exhausting, and at times excessively moralistic, it nonetheless represents a progression in the Turkish auteur’s work,...
Since it was first announced to go into production more than a year ago, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s follow-up to his existential and noirish Once a Upon a Time in Anatolia also runs well beyond the three-hour mark, fans of austere and uncompromising cinema rejoiced, for we could feel a swelling sense that Ceylan was approaching a zenith in his artistry and ambition. In truth, it is and it isn’t. A talkathon that may have been derived from a script of 300 pages, Winter Sleep is both Ceylan’s most epic and one of his most intimate films; indeed, it could easily have been conceived as a stage play rather than a film – not least because of the film’s multiple allusions to Shakespeare. Beautiful, exhausting, and at times excessively moralistic, it nonetheless represents a progression in the Turkish auteur’s work,...
- 6/2/2014
- by Blake Williams
- IONCINEMA.com
Winter Sleep
Written by Ebru Ceylan and Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkey, 2014
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep makes its way within the Cannes Film Festival and his own oeuvre as if a slow-burning candle: magnificently glacial in pace yet fiery all the way down. It immediately sets itself apart from Ceylan’s recent pictures, where characters are motivated by distance and loneliness, as it takes the shape of a chamber drama, fully dedicated to sealing its characters within the beautiful homes crafted out of the Anatolian steppes. The cast is closer together, bringing forth intense waves of casual conversation and relentless debate, all centered around the brutal patriarchal figure of quasi-intellectual Aydin (Haluk Bilginer). He’s confronted with his own role within his family and his community, as well as how far his power may reach, all through the context of Turkish drama. This makes...
Written by Ebru Ceylan and Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkey, 2014
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep makes its way within the Cannes Film Festival and his own oeuvre as if a slow-burning candle: magnificently glacial in pace yet fiery all the way down. It immediately sets itself apart from Ceylan’s recent pictures, where characters are motivated by distance and loneliness, as it takes the shape of a chamber drama, fully dedicated to sealing its characters within the beautiful homes crafted out of the Anatolian steppes. The cast is closer together, bringing forth intense waves of casual conversation and relentless debate, all centered around the brutal patriarchal figure of quasi-intellectual Aydin (Haluk Bilginer). He’s confronted with his own role within his family and his community, as well as how far his power may reach, all through the context of Turkish drama. This makes...
- 5/17/2014
- by Zach Lewis
- SoundOnSight
★★★★☆Having carried home the Grand Jury Prize for Best Film back in 2011 with the exceptional Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, celebrated Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to both the Croisette and the Official Competition with Winter Sleep (2014). Aydin (Haluk Bilginer) is a landlord and hotelier in a remote mountain region of Anatolia. A former actor, he passes his time writing a column for the local newspaper, chatting with the foreign guests in the hotel and contemplating his yet to be started History of Turkish Theatre. Living with him are his recently divorced sister, Necla (Demet Akbag), and his young wife Nihal (Melisa Sözen), with whom he has an intermittently distant and difficult relationship.
- 5/17/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
After his highly acclaimed Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to Cannes – and to Anatolia – with his much anticipated Winter Sleep, an epic movie in many ways, most notably for its running time of 3 hours and 16 minutes. Could it live up to the hype? The answer is yes, though not unequivocally so.
The story revolves around Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), a handsome former actor running the Hotel Othello. He lives with his beautiful, much younger wife Nihal (Melisa Sozen) and his sister Necla (Demet Akbag). On the surface Aydin appears to be charming, busy and reluctant to fulfill his duties as landlord, for he owns many of the properties near the hotel. One tardy rent payer is Ismail (Nejat Isler), a man who’s been in trouble with the law and with the booze. His house is in disarray, with airplane seats and piles of junk littering his garden.
The story revolves around Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), a handsome former actor running the Hotel Othello. He lives with his beautiful, much younger wife Nihal (Melisa Sozen) and his sister Necla (Demet Akbag). On the surface Aydin appears to be charming, busy and reluctant to fulfill his duties as landlord, for he owns many of the properties near the hotel. One tardy rent payer is Ismail (Nejat Isler), a man who’s been in trouble with the law and with the booze. His house is in disarray, with airplane seats and piles of junk littering his garden.
- 5/17/2014
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Cannes - I'll say this much (and plenty of people today are saying far more) for Nuri Bilge Ceylan: it takes a brazen kind of confidence to build a 196-minute film from wall-to-wall conversation on such matters as intellectualism, altruism and class politics on the Turkish steppes, and then to go ahead and title it "Winter Sleep." Like "The Milk of Sorrow" or "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker," it's the kind of wilfully austere art-house moniker that dyed-in-the-wool populists might invent in a fit of dismissive satire. They might also, if they had the time and inclination, dream up the film that lies behind a title I wish were more deceptively po-faced: swaddling its many moments of intelligence and curiosity in turgid explication and self-admiring form, "Winter Sleep" is unabashed essay cinema that makes difficulty its prime artistic objective. Not difficulty of interpretation, you understand:...
- 5/17/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Among the 18 feature films competing for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Jean-Luc Godard is presenting his 19th film at the Cannes Film Festival, Adieu au Langage (Goodbye to Language).
Adieu au Langage (Goodbye to Language): Godard’s first film to compete at Cannes was Cleo de 5 a 7, which premiered at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. Since then, 18 of his films have been screened at the festival, though not all in competition. Goodbye to Language is Godard’s first film in competition in over 10 years.
Nsfw:
Captive (The Captive): Atom Egoyan directs this Canadian thriller starring Ryan Reynolds, Rosario Dawson, Mireille Enos and Scott Speedman. This will be Egoyan’s fifth film in competition at the Cannes Film Festival; the writer/director won the Grand Jury Prize for The Sweet Hereafter in 1997.
Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night): Directors and brothers...
Adieu au Langage (Goodbye to Language): Godard’s first film to compete at Cannes was Cleo de 5 a 7, which premiered at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. Since then, 18 of his films have been screened at the festival, though not all in competition. Goodbye to Language is Godard’s first film in competition in over 10 years.
Nsfw:
Captive (The Captive): Atom Egoyan directs this Canadian thriller starring Ryan Reynolds, Rosario Dawson, Mireille Enos and Scott Speedman. This will be Egoyan’s fifth film in competition at the Cannes Film Festival; the writer/director won the Grand Jury Prize for The Sweet Hereafter in 1997.
Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night): Directors and brothers...
- 5/13/2014
- Uinterview
Welcome back to Cannes Check, In Contention's annual preview of the films in Competition at next month's Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 14. Taking on different selections every day, we'll be examining what they're about, who's involved and what their chances are of snagging an award from Jane Campion's jury. Next up: the film that is currently the bookies' favorite for festival gold: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Winter Sleep." The director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkish, 55 years old). A photographer's filmmaker -- with a BSc in electrical engineering, to boot -- Ceylan has been hovering around the world cinema A-list for over a decade, though his expansive 2011 feature "Once Upon a Time.in Anatolia" plainly sealed his place there. Having developed an interest in film in his twenties, he made his first short, "Cocoon," in 1995; it played at Cannes. His debut feature,"Kasaba," followed two years later; "Winter Sleep" is his seventh.
- 4/30/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Winter Sleep
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writers: Nuri Bilge Ceylan and wife/actress/producer Ebru Ceylan
Producers: Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan (has been Ceylan’s producer since Climates).
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Haluk Bilginer (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Demet Akbag, Melisa Sözen
There was a time when Kar-Wai, Ki Duk, Almodovar could do no wrong. And while they’ve had recent bumps in the road, apart from Haneke the filmmaker personality who has landed number one on our 2014 list has been solid for more than a decade. Since he preemed his third film 2002′s Distant in Cannes, he has been batting near a thousand with Climates, Three Monkeys and arguably one of the best films of 2011 in Once Upon A Time in Anatolia. Nuri Bilge Ceylan might follow up his masterwork set in the sprawling hills with what looks like a portrait in a more unforgiving terrain. Production lasted four...
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writers: Nuri Bilge Ceylan and wife/actress/producer Ebru Ceylan
Producers: Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan (has been Ceylan’s producer since Climates).
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Haluk Bilginer (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Demet Akbag, Melisa Sözen
There was a time when Kar-Wai, Ki Duk, Almodovar could do no wrong. And while they’ve had recent bumps in the road, apart from Haneke the filmmaker personality who has landed number one on our 2014 list has been solid for more than a decade. Since he preemed his third film 2002′s Distant in Cannes, he has been batting near a thousand with Climates, Three Monkeys and arguably one of the best films of 2011 in Once Upon A Time in Anatolia. Nuri Bilge Ceylan might follow up his masterwork set in the sprawling hills with what looks like a portrait in a more unforgiving terrain. Production lasted four...
- 3/7/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
A little bit of coin news from Europe’s Eurimages Fund (support of 13 projects) in the same token drops a couple of hints on where we might be at with some of our favorite European auteurs – topping the list and making our mouths water for Cannes 2014 is a listing for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s next feature film entitled Winter Sleep – a Turkish-German-France co-production. Further digging tells us that Ceylan actually began filming in late January in the unique backdrop of Cappadocia, Turkey with actors Haluk Bilginer (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Demet Akbag, Melisa Sözen on board. Swedish auteur Ruben Ostlund (whose Play is mysteriously still without a U.S Distributor) is inches away from filming Tourist – which will be ready for a Croisette 2014 showing as well. Jasmila Zbanic who won big in Berlin back in 2006 with Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams, is funding her latest Love Island and feel...
- 3/20/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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