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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 director Nuri Bilge Ceylan makes deeply atmospheric movies filled with long pauses and delicate visual schemes, so it’s no surprise that he tends to hold back when talking about his work. That ...

Anyone who has been watching the films of the extraordinary Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan knows that he is a master. It's a fact. There's no debating or denying that he is one of the best ...

Turkish director aims for broader art-house recognition, and perhaps his first Oscar nomination, with his Cannes-winning Chekhovian drama. To those who may feel intimidated by the prospect of a ...