The State Department warned of the potential for demonstrations against Americans overseas because of U.S. intervention in ...

Ceylan was born in Istanbul, but when he was two, his father, an agricultural engineer, moved back to his own home town, Yenice, and Nuri and his older sister had a rural upbringing.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan likes to take his time. The Turkish director is one of the greatest living practitioners of slow cinema. The filmmaking ethos — pioneered by Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discussed in this essay: The films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan. In Distant (2002), the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s tragicomic masterpiece, a small-town factory worker named Yusuf arrives in Istanbul ...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan has made a thrilling, playful, visually stunning film that tries to make sense of the world we live in now,” Sideshow and Janus Films said in a statement.

At nearly 200 minutes in length, “About Dry Grasses” (or “Kuru Otlar Üstüne”) is par for the course for Turkish virtuoso Nuri Bilge Ceylan.He returns, once again, to the icy frost of his ...

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 ...