To those who may feel intimidated by the prospect of a three-hour-and-16-minute Turkish movie bearing the somnambulant title “Winter Sleep,” director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has this advice: don’t be afraid ...

He has long hair. He loves heavy metal. And he regularly takes the stage at major venues otherwise reserved for guitar riffs and headbanging. Whether tough guys or mothers, eccentric contemporaries or ...

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan specializes in slow-burn narratives set against poetically desolate landscapes, but his movies always have a clear direction. From the melancholic romance of ...

Editor’s note: Filmmakers You Should Know is a new column about working filmmakers who have amassed a significant body of work. This inaugural installment focuses ...

With movies still unspooling, or whatever the DCP equivalent may be, on the Croisette, the reviews haven’t quite caught up to the initial reactions to Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s “Winter Sleep.” But there’s a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a masterclass on Thursday, Turkish film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan gave the initial impression of being an austere and ...