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12/11/09
At one time, Gokhan Tiryaki was primed to enter Istanbul's financial industry with a degree in economics, but he got sidetracked when he invested in a film career.
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Variety
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11/23/09
For we happy few who believe that Judd Apatow's Funny People will one day be regarded as one of 2009's best movies, the road to revisionism begins today, with the release of the stunning special edition Funny People DVD and Blu-ray.
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The A.V. Club
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08/21/09
Lucrecia Martel's hallucinatory new film "The Headless Woman" could just as well be called "The Hazy Woman."
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Independent Film Channel (IFC)
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07/17/09
After making two films (DISTANT and CLIMATES) that were largely haunting images strung together by a loose story, Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (who won Best Director at last year's Cannes Film Festival for this film) has assembled a film that exists to prod and probe what the differences are between feeling guilty and being guilty.
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Ain't It Cool News
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05/15/09
It is a measure of Turkey's strategically important geographic position that when U.S. President Barack Obama visited the country in April, it could be counted as both the final leg of his European tour and his first visit to a Muslim country.
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Variety
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05/15/09
The 31-year-old Turkish actress from Istanbul essayed her powerful lead role in Huseyin Karabey's "My Marlon and Brando," based on her own true story of crossing a war zone to reach the love of her life, Iraqi-Kurdish actor Hama Ali Khan. Damgaci brings the power of emotional authenticity to a performance that bodes well for her career; she already has won the Heart of Sarajevo in 2008 for best actress.
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Variety
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05/15/09
L.A.-based film vet Peter Marai has created a new Buenos Aires-based arthouse distributor, Mirada distribution.
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Variety
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04/29/09
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Three Monkeys" topped out with the best narrative feature prize at the Riverrun International Film Festival, with the film's Hatice Aslan taking a jury prize for best actress.
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indieWIRE
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04/23/09
A Faustian bargain that blows up in all directions is the centrepiece of Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys, one of the most vivid movies I saw at last year's Toronto International Film Festival.
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JAM! Showbiz