Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:Turkey’
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The Toll Booth — Unsettled Desperation in Turkey
05 Feb 2016The Toll Booth (2014), more accurately, the” toll taker,” has a nice play on words in it, at least in…
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Women say: Hands Off! — Three Films of the Changing Conversation in Islam
26 Jan 2016The long fight for autonomy, independence and freedom against enemies canny and brutal, is one of the most popular subjects…
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Egg-Milk-Honey — A Turkish Film Trilogy
18 Jun 2012Trilogies are rare birds in the species we call movies. When they exist at all they seem to come from…
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Turkey to Switzerland: Hope Drives Despair
18 May 2012As one interpretation of Pandora’s Box goes, what remains inside after all the evils are set free — hope– is…
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Talking Turkey: Two Films
06 Feb 2012I admit it. I’ve been on a bender lately reading about Turkey and watching movies made there, or by Turks…
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Three Monkeys – A Film from Turkey
23 Jan 2012Three Monkeys — the famous three monkeys of not seeing, speaking or hearing– is a sorrowful, long-take, film of domestic…
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Distant – a Film from Turkey
09 Jan 2012I’m going on a trip to Turkey in a couple of months with some dear companions, so we’re doing a…
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Bliss — An Unexpected Movie
19 Oct 2010I’d had the movie Bliss in my Tivo instant line-up for quite a while and kept avoiding it. The short…
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The Edge of Heaven: A Film
02 Mar 2009The Edge of Heaven is a fine, too little seen, film from Turkey and Germany, a tale of sorrow and…
