Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s 2014 effort Winter Sleep won what is arguably cinema’s most coveted prize, Cannes’ Palme d’Or. Since then, he has been remarkably quiet. So it was with some anticipation that the ...

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 ...

It's not your average police drama, that's for sure. Not only do we never quite get to grips with what happened and how, but it takes well over an hour for the film to even reach the crime scene – in ...

A master of patient, contemplative and deeply metaphysical filmmaking that stands out in an age of instant cinematic gratification, the Turkish auteur and 2014 Palme d’Or winner returns to Cannes with ...

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 ...

Turkish director aims for broader art-house recognition, and perhaps his first Oscar nomination, with his Cannes-winning Chekhovian drama. To those who may feel intimidated by the prospect of a ...

Returning home, Yusuf confronts the childhood that was stolen from him, while Ceylan, surrounded by both her old life and the dark world she is involved in, tries to escape by taking her son and ...

On Friday afternoon, on the sunny back patio of the Hotel Americano in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, the Istanbul-based painter Taner Ceylan mused over the stakes of his second solo show at Paul ...