Nuri Bilge Ceylan likes to take his time. The Turkish director is one of the greatest living practitioners of slow cinema. The filmmaking ethos — pioneered by Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky and ...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s About Dry Grasses, which had its world premiere Friday night, follows the middle-class melancholy of a Turkish rural village art teacher, clocks in at 3 hours and 17 minutes.

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 ...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan likes to take his time. The Turkish director is one of the greatest living practitioners of slow cinema. The filmmaking ethos — pioneered by Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky and ...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan has made a thrilling, playful, visually stunning film that tries to make sense of the world we live in now,” Sideshow and Janus Films said in a statement.

About Dry Grasses, the latest film from Nuri Bilge Ceylan that played in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, was submitted by Turkey on Friday to represent the country in the Oscar ...

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 ...

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.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses, which had its world premiere Friday night, follows the middle-class melancholy of a Turkish rural village art teacher, clocks in at 3 hours and 17 minutes.

To this Turkish critic, Nuri Bilge Ceylan is our Mike Leigh and Anton Chekhov in one, with multilayered characters of social and political complexities engaging through dialogue lines that feel ...

Ceylan, now in his mid-sixties, came to international prominence with his third feature, “Distant,” an exquisitely observed, modestly scaled two-hander that won the Grand Prix at the 2003 ...

Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan continues to explore his homeland’s teeming dichotomies — city/rural, secularism/faith, individualism/tradition and so forth — in About Dry Grasses, his ...