Damn, some of y'all watch a LOT of movies! When do you have time to listen to music?
Do y'all get out much? Play ball, ride a bike, fish, get any exercise?
I listen to music when I play ball, ride a bike, fish and get any exercise. I watch movies at night.
Damn, some of y'all watch a LOT of movies! When do you have time to listen to music?
Do y'all get out much? Play ball, ride a bike, fish, get any exercise?
I listen to music when I play ball, ride a bike, fish and get any exercise. I watch movies at night.
(if especially you live in turkey like me and now what is all about him)
Do you mean something like "if you live in Turkey like me and know what he's all about?" Don't mean to sound like I'm correcting you, I'm just interested in what you're saying. What is Ceylan's reputation in Turkey?
Do you mean something like "if you live in Turkey like me and know what he's all about?" Don't mean to sound like I'm correcting you, I'm just interested in what you're saying. What is Ceylan's reputation in Turkey?
Yess, there's been a typo and thank you for poiting out
About Ceylan, he's known as the foremost director of ''New Turkey Cinema'' and he's the dearest of the ''intelligentsia'', although he's a brilliant filmmaker, i have a problem with his writing, its like the isolated writer that lives in a castle upon the hill but writes about the everyday life of the common people.It feels synthetic from time to time. And he has always been like that, his early films or Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (which almost all film critics or anyone into Turkish cinema in Turkey agrees that is one of the greatest films ever made in this country) but in those, he achieved to make us go into the story not fall short on the surface. His last to, Winter Sleep and The Wild Pear Tree (especially) falls flat. Some people sees this, some not, for Ceylan is labeled as ''our international success''. Another thing is his insensitivity on some issues, he never touches politics directly (in his life and in his films) and we're living in a politically chaotic country. He has never spoken about another thing apart his works. For instance; last month the cinema industry was in chaos with a big fight with the major distributors over the ticket shares (distributors, as always, has been exploiting and abusing the system) he said nothing about that but later on the government sort of ''fixed'' that with a law that includes overcensoring anything that goes into theaters and he said nothing about that too, if im not wrong he has never said nothing about anything and we have some big issues, cinematically too. But not many bashes him about that or call him on the carpet, instead we give him every award possible (last week he's won best director and best picture for a millionth time at our most ongoing major film award)
Sorry for the long post, and overuse of the word ''intellectual'' but its a term in this country that you can hear a lot and is enough to polarize people.
Thanks for your insight! I've only seen Distant and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. The style in Distant reminded me of some contemporary Asian directors like Jia Zhangke and Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Liked it a fair amount. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia seemed more original to me, liked it a lot. My only major problem with it is the end section that takes place the following morning is rendered in a very different style, almost as if it was from a different movie, and that inconsistency didn't really work for me. Haven't seen any other Turkish films.
The length of The Wild Pear Tree and hearing that it's slow was a deterrent to me seeing it.
Do Turkish directors have to get any kind of approval from the government to make films or is there any censorship?
Thanks for your insight! I've only seen Distant and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. The style in Distant reminded me of some contemporary Asian directors like Jia Zhangke and Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Liked it a fair amount. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia seemed more original to me, liked it a lot. My only major problem with it is the end section that takes place the following morning is rendered in a very different style, almost as if it was from a different movie, and that inconsistency didn't really work for me. Haven't seen any other Turkish films.
The length of The Wild Pear Tree and hearing that it's slow was a deterrent to me seeing it.
Do Turkish directors have to get any kind of approval from the government to make films or is there any censorship?
I feel the same way about Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, it would've been better if we didn't see the next morning at all, bu it's a great film, his best. And Ceylan is very into Asian cinema and a great admirer of Russian cinema and theater, big fan of Tarkovsky and Chekhov.
Turkish directors didn't need a direct approval from an institution until last month like i said, with the new ''law'' we now will have a commission that will oversee every single thing that will be on theaters. But before this, of course the government could use censorship or prevent big audiences from seeing a film with defamation.
Another thing is that the biggest financier for independent films in Turkey is the Ministry of Culture, that might seem as a good thing and it was! They financed a lot great films (including every film Ceylan has ever directed, so maybe the answer lays down here) but for the last couple of years that institution decayed along with the government itself.
And the worst is auto-censorship, some directors change their films in order to get the support from the ministry or go like ''i could get into trouble for that. (You may have heard that last year Sony Pictures supplied a censored version of Blade Runner 2049, nude replicants!) But of course we have some decent filmmakers that says it all and small but determined community that fights against
Ceylan is very into Asian cinema and a great admirer of Russian cinema and theater, big fan of Tarkovsky and Chekhov.
Tarkovsky seems like THE touchstone of contemporary art film directors.
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Turkish directors didn't need a direct approval from an institution until last month like i said, with the new ''law'' we now will have a commission that will oversee every single thing that will be on theaters. But before this, of course the government could use censorship or prevent big audiences from seeing a film with defamation.
Another thing is that the biggest financier for independent films in Turkey is the Ministry of Culture, that might seem as a good thing and it was! They financed a lot great films (including every film Ceylan has ever directed, so maybe the answer lays down here) but for the last couple of years that institution decayed along with the government itself.
And the worst is auto-censorship, some directors change their films in order to get the support from the ministry or go like ''i could get into trouble for that. (You may have heard that last year Sony Pictures supplied a censored version of Blade Runner 2049, nude replicants!) But of course we have some decent filmmakers that says it all and small but determined community that fights against
Yeah, I had Ceylan in mind when I asked about censorship. Sounds like he may be auto-censoring himself a little bit, in life if not in his films, not wanting make waves in his public appearances.
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When do you have time to listen to music? 
