Egg-Milk-Honey — A Turkish Film Trilogy

6/18/2012

Trilogies are rare birds in the species we call movies. When they exist at all they seem to come from …

Turkey to Switzerland: Hope Drives Despair

5/18/2012

As one interpretation of Pandora’s Box goes, what remains inside after all the evils are set free — hope– is …

2/6/2012

I admit it. I’ve been on a bender lately reading about Turkey and watching movies made there, or by Turks …

1/23/2012

Three Monkeys — the famous three monkeys of not seeing, speaking or hearing– is a sorrowful, long-take, film of domestic …

1/9/2012

I’m going on a trip to Turkey in a couple of months with some dear companions, so we’re doing a …

10/19/2010

I’d had the movie Bliss in my Tivo instant line-up for quite a while and kept avoiding it. The short …

3/2/2009

The Edge of Heaven is a fine, too little seen, film from Turkey and Germany, a tale of sorrow and …