Nuri Bilge Ceylan

About Dry Grasses review – consistently mind-expanding

By David Jenkins

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's magnificent latest follows the daily life of a cantankerous English teacher in a small Anatollian village.

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Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall wins the 2023 Palme d’Or

By David Jenkins

The psychological courtroom thriller with the great Sandra Hüller wins the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

About Dry Grasses – first-look review

By David Jenkins

More verbose magnificence from Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who makes three-and-half hours whiz by with this comic portrait of an untreatable misanthrope.

Croisette wishes: 20 films we’d like to see at Cannes in 2023

By Charles Bramesco

Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and Pedro Almodóvar number among the heavy hitters expected on the red carpet.

The 30 best films of 2018

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Our annual countdown of the movies that made the biggest impression on us this year, from Hereditary to The House That Jack Built.

The Wild Pear Tree

By Matt Thrift

Turkey’s foremost dramatist returns with his most imposing and impressive film to date.

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The Wild Pear Tree – first look review

By David Jenkins

The 2018 Cannes Film Festival saved the best for last with Nuri Bilge Ceylan's sublime literary opus.

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will close the 71st Cannes Film Festival

By Adam Woodward

Terry Gilliam’s epic passion project is set to receive its world premiere on 19 May.

25 films we’d like to see at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

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Claire Denis, Yorgos Lanthimos and Terrence Malick could be competing for this year’s Palme d’Or.

Winter Sleep

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Much philosophically-inclined gabbing make this Palme d’Or-winning latest from Nuri Bilge Ceylan something of snooze.

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