Nuri Bilge Ceylan loves snow. The depths of winter, people in thick coats, frozen taps, the sense that these long, bitterly cold seasons in mountain regions will never end. This is all working ...
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 ...
The sensitive, serene film “About Dry Grasses” is the sixth submission from Nuri Bilge Ceylan to compete for the Best International Feature Oscar, and the 30th from Turkey, which has never received a ...
The Turkish drama won the best actress honor for star Merve Dizdar at this year's Cannes Film Festival. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Sideshow and Janus Films have picked up U.S. rights to ...
When we first encounter Samet, the solitary protagonist of Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s superb drama “About Dry Grasses,” he’s miserable. Being dropped off in what appears to be the middle of ...
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 ...
Cannes: The Turkish master is back, with this uncomfortable portrait of an overly familiar teacher. Where “Winter Sleep” adapted Russian greats like Chekhov and Dostoyevsky — it draws from both “The ...
Renowned director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest work, "About Dry Grasses," continued to lead the Box Office Turkey rankings with around 49,000 viewers in its second week of release. According to Box ...
Turkey’s “About Dry Grasses” is as snowy as “Dr. Zhivago” and runs even longer than that film’s original release, though without quite as much in the way of events. Mainly it’s about three rural ...