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Release: October 22, 2024

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The latest existential epic from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a masterclass in characterization, atmosphere, and moral and philosophical inquiry. When he comes under scrutiny for misconduct, cynical middle-school instructor Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) fears that his punishment will trap him in the snowy, isolated Anatolian village he has grown to despise. The only ray of hope is his relationship with Nuray (Merve Dizdar, who won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival), a fellow teacher who openly challenges Samet’s bitter narcissism—yet Samet’s friendship with his colleague and roommate, Kenan (Musab Ekici), who also has feelings for Nuray, hangs in the balance. Using hypnotic long takes and other bold formal techniques to convey the murky motives of its Dostoevskian protagonist, About Dry Grasses proves Ceylan to be one of cinema’s most incisive investigators of the human condition. INCLUDES Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Nuri Bilge Ceylan Trailer

Release: December 27, 2022

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Ostensibly looking for work, Turkish factory worker Yusuf leaves his home village for Istanbul. Worming his way into the guest bedroom of his cousin Mahmut, a photographer whose carefully arranged life was already thrown into chaos after his wife left him, Yusuf's listless ways grate on Mahmut, as the two men find they have nothing in common save loneliness. Writer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's compelling drama stars Muzaffer Özdemir and Emin Toprak. 105 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Turkish; Subtitles: English; featurettes.. In Turkish with English subtitles.

Release: October 28, 2019

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Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia is the new film from the celebrated director of Distant and Climates. In the dead of night, a group of men—among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect—drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The suspect, who claims he was drunk, can't remember where he buried the body. As night wears on, details about the murder emerge and the investigators' own hidden secrets come to light. In the Anatolian steppes, nothing is what it seems; and when the body is found, the real questions begin. Review "Anatolia is a cop movie and a road movie - but mostly it s GORGEOUS CINEMA." --Andrew O Hehir, Salon "A masterpiece. A police procedural that slowly gains the quality of a collective dream." --New York Magazine "Ravishingly atmospheric. A meditative masterpiece of a policier." --Ella Taylor, NPR

Release: October 22, 2019

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TWO DISC SPECIAL EDITION Sinan (Aydin Do u Demirkol), an aspiring writer, returns home after university hoping to scrape together enough money to publish his first novel. He wanders the town encountering old flames and obstinate gatekeepers and finds his youthful ambition increasingly at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling-addict father (Murat Cemcir). As his own fantasies mingle with reality, Sinan grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is. Following in the great tradition of family dramas like Death of a Salesman and Long Day s Journey Into Night, The Wild Pear Tree weaves an evocative tale of creative struggle and familial responsibility with inspired performances, sumptuous imagery and surprising bursts of humor. It s one of Ceylan s most personal works to date, a film as rich, layered and uncompromising as the novel its headstrong hero is working to publish. Special Features The Making of the Wild Pear Tree (2019, 390 mins) Q&A with Nuri Bilge Ceylan at US Premiere Theatrical Trailer Booklet featuring essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews The Wild Pear Tree: Special Edition [Blu-ray]

Release: May 5, 2015

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Directed by the Turkish cinema master, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, this enthralling, brilliantly photographed film won the top prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was Turkey's entrant in the Oscar Best Foreign Language Film category. Ceylan's "Once Upon A Time in Anatolia" had shared the top prize at Cannes in 2011. Set in the amazingly picturesque Cappadocia region in central Turkey, the exterior scenes strikingly capture the remarkable topography a World Heritage site while the interior scenes bring Rembrandt to mind. A retired actor has inherited a small hotel where he is ensconced with his recently divorced sister, his much younger and growingly discontented wife. A seemingly trivial incident sets in motion a drama of personalities at odds with each other and the paths their lives have taken. The superb cast of actors quickly takes your attention and won't let it go.