Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Life in a small town is akin to journeying in the middle of the steppes: the sense that “something new and different” will spring up behind every hill, but always unerringly similar, tapering, vanishing or lingering monotonous roads… Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” has been awarded with the Grand Prix at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. Ceylan shared the award with Dardenne brothers for their film ‘The kid with a bike”. Directed by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Starring: Muhammet...Read Full Story

My last LFF review, and surely the one that everybody has been waiting to read. I mean, two-and-three-quarter hour Turkish police procedurals are popular, right? Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011) Dauntingly long anti-epic, rich in novelistic texture; it's possibly the defining film in what I'm calling the New Boredom Usually, films whose title begins Once Upon A Time In... gravitate towards the Sergio Leone model: huge, expansive, operatic. But, despite its...Read Full Story

  French actress Isabelle Huppert will be the president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in France this May. Take a look at the final members of the Cannes Film Festival  jury. Isabelle Huppert French actress Isabelle Huppert will head the jury of the 62nd edition of the Cannes film festival in May. Huppert, 55, who has starred in more than 90 films, has twice won the best actress award at the prestigious film festival on the French Riviera. Huppert has sat on the jury at Cannes...Read Full Story

A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes. Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Writers: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan Stars: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan and Taner Birsel Gift Coupons:Read Full Story

The winners at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival were announced.  Michael Haneke won the Palm d'Or for the White Ribbon and Prophet took the Grand Prix .  The jury comprised of Jury President Isabel Huppert, Asia Argento , Shu Qi , Sharmila Tagore , Robin Wright Penn , Nuri Bilge Ceylan , James Gray , Hanif Kureishi and Lee Chang-dong . explained how t hey made their decision of the winners at this year's festival .  Congrats to all of the winners! Watch clips and highlights from the festival on...Read Full Story