No year in review would be complete without a thank-you to our writers. Time and again, they reminded us that cinema is not only alive and well, but it is also always transforming; the filmmakers and festivals covered here push the boundaries of what we took for granted about the medium.Here’s a quick overview of what we published in 2022—and, for many more excellent pieces, we encourage you to browse our archive using the “explore” tab on the homepage.ESSAYSContemporary Cinema:When Propaganda Fails: Adam McKay's Don't Look Up by Ryan MeehanThe Horse in Motion: Jordan Peele's Nope by Blair McClendonThe Many Faces of Michelle Yeoh by Sean GilmanHall of Mirrors: James Gray's Armageddon Time and Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans by Kelli WestonNameless Energies: Don DeLillo at the Movies by Leonardo GoiThe Voice of a Generation: The Trope of the "Complex Female Character" by Rafaela BassiliHong...
- 1/4/2023
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Metin Erksan's Time to Love (1965) is showing exclusively on Mubi starting November 3, 2022 in the series Rediscovered.Time to Love (1965).Growing up in İstanbul, it felt like there were islands everywhere. There were the geographical islands themselves: the Princes’ Islands that lie off the shore of the Anatolian coast, the largest of which is the major setting for Metin Erksan’s Time to Love (1965). There were the city’s neighborhoods with their various cultures, and sometimes even their favored languages. And then there were the more interesting ones, the invisible islands, those of stories half-remembered or almost completely forgotten, of the symbols and traditions they carry, looming like specters in a city that lies across not only two continents but a time frame of more than two thousand years.Time to Love threads a bold path through all these islands of culture,...
- 11/17/2022
- MUBI
Mubi has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month, including new restorations of Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom I & II ahead of the third installment beginning to roll out right after Thanksgiving. Additional highlights include Christos Nikou’s Apples, Lorenzo Vigas’ The Box, Paweł Łozińsk’s The Balcony Movie, and Antonio Marziale’s short Starfuckers, along with films by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Park Chan-wook, Lucrecia Martel, and more.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
November 1 – A Married Woman, directed by Jean-Luc Godard | For Ever Godard
November 2 – No Ordinary Man, directed by Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt | Portrait of the Artist
November 3 – Time to Love, directed by Metin Erksan | Rediscovered
November 4 – Apples, directed by Christos Nikou | Mubi Spotlight
November 5 – The Assassin, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien | Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Double Bill
November 6 – Daughter of the Nile, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien | Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Double Bill
November...
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
November 1 – A Married Woman, directed by Jean-Luc Godard | For Ever Godard
November 2 – No Ordinary Man, directed by Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt | Portrait of the Artist
November 3 – Time to Love, directed by Metin Erksan | Rediscovered
November 4 – Apples, directed by Christos Nikou | Mubi Spotlight
November 5 – The Assassin, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien | Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Double Bill
November 6 – Daughter of the Nile, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien | Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Double Bill
November...
- 10/30/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Dry Summer
Written by Metin Erksan, Kemal Inci, and Ismet Soydan
Directed by Metin Erksan
Turkey, 1964
In 2013, the Criterion Collection released a Blu-Ray/DVD box-set entitled ‘Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project’. The box set consists of six films from various parts of the world that have received high-quality restorations, thanks to the assistance of Martin Scorsese and The Film Foundation. And yet, it has to be said that some of the films Scorsese had commissioned for restoration and home video release leave a lot to be desired: Djibril Diop Mambety’s The Journey of the Hyena (1973; Wolof title: Touki Bouki) is a Senegalese-made bore of a chore to sit thru as it imitates the horrid French New Wave works of Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard; The Wave (1936; Spanish title: Redes), an American-Mexican co-production between directors Fred Zinnemann and Emilio Gomez Muriel and photographer Paul Strand, which is a short...
Written by Metin Erksan, Kemal Inci, and Ismet Soydan
Directed by Metin Erksan
Turkey, 1964
In 2013, the Criterion Collection released a Blu-Ray/DVD box-set entitled ‘Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project’. The box set consists of six films from various parts of the world that have received high-quality restorations, thanks to the assistance of Martin Scorsese and The Film Foundation. And yet, it has to be said that some of the films Scorsese had commissioned for restoration and home video release leave a lot to be desired: Djibril Diop Mambety’s The Journey of the Hyena (1973; Wolof title: Touki Bouki) is a Senegalese-made bore of a chore to sit thru as it imitates the horrid French New Wave works of Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard; The Wave (1936; Spanish title: Redes), an American-Mexican co-production between directors Fred Zinnemann and Emilio Gomez Muriel and photographer Paul Strand, which is a short...
- 1/1/2015
- by Christopher Koenig
- SoundOnSight
Dry Summer
Written by Metin Erksan, Kemal Inci and Ismet Soydan
Directed by Metin Erksan
Turkey, 1964
Trances
Written and directed by Ahmed El Maânouni
Morocco, 1981
The Housemaid
Written by Kim Ki-young (screenplay by Kim Jeong-sook)
Directed by Kim Ki-young
South Korea, 1960
The three titles rounding out The Criterion Collection set showcasing six films preserved and newly remastered through Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project are markedly different, not only from each other, but from the three features covered last week in this column. Dry Summer, Trances, and The Housemaid maintain a strong sense of cultural identification and examination, but opposed to the previous three films, which exist somewhere between “docu-fiction” and a slightly indefinite art house categorization, these movies fall more in line with standard generic conventions. That is not to say, however, that they are in any way conventional. Within the recognizable forms of, roughly, the melodrama, the musical documentary,...
Written by Metin Erksan, Kemal Inci and Ismet Soydan
Directed by Metin Erksan
Turkey, 1964
Trances
Written and directed by Ahmed El Maânouni
Morocco, 1981
The Housemaid
Written by Kim Ki-young (screenplay by Kim Jeong-sook)
Directed by Kim Ki-young
South Korea, 1960
The three titles rounding out The Criterion Collection set showcasing six films preserved and newly remastered through Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project are markedly different, not only from each other, but from the three features covered last week in this column. Dry Summer, Trances, and The Housemaid maintain a strong sense of cultural identification and examination, but opposed to the previous three films, which exist somewhere between “docu-fiction” and a slightly indefinite art house categorization, these movies fall more in line with standard generic conventions. That is not to say, however, that they are in any way conventional. Within the recognizable forms of, roughly, the melodrama, the musical documentary,...
- 1/3/2014
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 10, 2013
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $124.95
Studio: Criterion
Established by filmmaker Martin Scorsese in 2007, Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project expands the horizons of moviegoers everywhere. The mission of the Wcp is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions of the world ill equipped to provide funding for major restorations. This collector’s set brings together six superb films from various countries, including Bangladesh/India (A River Called Titas), Mexico (Redes), Morocco (Trances), Senegal (Touki bouki), South Korea (The Housemaid), and Turkey (Dry Summer); each is a cinematic revelation, depicting a culture not often seen by outsiders.
Here’s a breakdown of all six:
Touki Bouki (1973)
Touki Bouki (1973, In Wolof with English subtitles)
With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave–influenced fantasy-drama,...
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $124.95
Studio: Criterion
Established by filmmaker Martin Scorsese in 2007, Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project expands the horizons of moviegoers everywhere. The mission of the Wcp is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions of the world ill equipped to provide funding for major restorations. This collector’s set brings together six superb films from various countries, including Bangladesh/India (A River Called Titas), Mexico (Redes), Morocco (Trances), Senegal (Touki bouki), South Korea (The Housemaid), and Turkey (Dry Summer); each is a cinematic revelation, depicting a culture not often seen by outsiders.
Here’s a breakdown of all six:
Touki Bouki (1973)
Touki Bouki (1973, In Wolof with English subtitles)
With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave–influenced fantasy-drama,...
- 10/24/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Ömer Lütfi Akad, a pioneer of Turkish cinema who made over 40 films between 1948 and 1974 (and would carry on directing for television through 1979), died yesterday at the age of 95. Bilge Ebiri has essentially broken the news to the English-speaking world:
Along with Metin Erksan (director of the recently-restored Dry Summer), Akad was probably one of the two senior giants of Turkish cinema during a rather significant time — the period in the 1950s and 60s when the medium was moving away from the canned-theater efforts of early pioneers like Muhsin Ertugrul and starting to tackle more complicated material, against pretty much every odd in the universe. Neither society nor technology had yet caught up to the imaginations of these artists. The equipment was still ancient (the first Turkish film to edit together two separate audio tracks wouldn't come until 1978) and so was the political atmosphere: the country was at the time entering...
Along with Metin Erksan (director of the recently-restored Dry Summer), Akad was probably one of the two senior giants of Turkish cinema during a rather significant time — the period in the 1950s and 60s when the medium was moving away from the canned-theater efforts of early pioneers like Muhsin Ertugrul and starting to tackle more complicated material, against pretty much every odd in the universe. Neither society nor technology had yet caught up to the imaginations of these artists. The equipment was still ancient (the first Turkish film to edit together two separate audio tracks wouldn't come until 1978) and so was the political atmosphere: the country was at the time entering...
- 11/20/2011
- MUBI
Hopscotch Films and Umbrella Entertainment have become the first Australian distributors to sign a deal with the on-demand platform Mubi, as the service launches on Sony’s PlayStation 3.
The agreement will see their catalogue join the thousands of independent and art house films in Mubi’s catalogue, and their new titles released day-and-date with the DVD/Blu-ray.
According to Cakarel, Australian distributors, rights’ owners and producers are “very progressive and open to new things”, and Mubi is currently in discussions with other potential sources of local content.
Starting today, PlayStation users will be able to download a free application to access Mubi and stream its content directly to their TV screens. Its collection includes content from major international studios and partners such as Celluloid Dreams and Martin Scorsese’s World cinema Foundation.
The service, however, is not a platform developed for emerging filmmakers to promote their films. Mubi has a...
The agreement will see their catalogue join the thousands of independent and art house films in Mubi’s catalogue, and their new titles released day-and-date with the DVD/Blu-ray.
According to Cakarel, Australian distributors, rights’ owners and producers are “very progressive and open to new things”, and Mubi is currently in discussions with other potential sources of local content.
Starting today, PlayStation users will be able to download a free application to access Mubi and stream its content directly to their TV screens. Its collection includes content from major international studios and partners such as Celluloid Dreams and Martin Scorsese’s World cinema Foundation.
The service, however, is not a platform developed for emerging filmmakers to promote their films. Mubi has a...
- 11/3/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Semih Kaplanoglu’s Turkish drama Honey, the final installment of an autobiographical trilogy that began with Egg (2007) and Milk (2008), was the unexpected winner of the 2010 Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear. Honey was the second Turkish film [not the first as previously reported] to win the Golden Bear. The first one was Metin Erksan’s Susuz yaz — as per the IMDb, known variously as Dry Summer, I Had My Brother’s Wife, and Reflections — in 1964. Additionally, Fatih Akin’s Head-On, a German-Turkish co-production set in Germany, won in 2004. Set in a mountainous forest, Honey tells the story of a six-year-old boy (Bora Altas) who ventures into the woods after his wild honey-collecting father has gone missing. "The central performance is [...]...
- 2/20/2010
- by Arthur Leander
- Alt Film Guide
The way we watch movies is changing. And no one knows how, in the not so distant future, cinema's going to be consumed -- especially those independent and art films that are increasingly unloved by the Hollywood distribution system. Multiplexes may not be the place for defiantly indie cinema, but are iPods, Xboxes, laptops and flat-screens their next best hope?
There are entrepreneurs who are betting on it, which has led to the recent spread of web sites dedicated to putting harder to find films online, from the documentary-centric SnagFilms to the highfalutin internet cinematheque The Auteurs. If there's one thing that these sites share in today's tough economic climate, it's a boldness to try something new when most businesses are scaling back -- that, and the fact that they all have founders who are filthy rich.
For the record: SnagFilms' Ted Leonsis is a former key executive at AOL...
There are entrepreneurs who are betting on it, which has led to the recent spread of web sites dedicated to putting harder to find films online, from the documentary-centric SnagFilms to the highfalutin internet cinematheque The Auteurs. If there's one thing that these sites share in today's tough economic climate, it's a boldness to try something new when most businesses are scaling back -- that, and the fact that they all have founders who are filthy rich.
For the record: SnagFilms' Ted Leonsis is a former key executive at AOL...
- 9/4/2009
- by Anthony Kaufman
- ifc.com
PARIS -- The Festival de Cannes is getting a post-60th birthday face lift with a series of restored copies of old films set to screen at the fifth annual Cannes Classics sidebar, organizers said Wednesday.
Manoel de Oliveira, who will turn 100 in December, will preside over the 2008 Cannes Classics and screen his first film, "Douro, Faina Fluvial", while the Cinematheque Francaise will present the world premiere of its Technicolor restoration of Max Ophuls' last movie, "Lola Montes".
Martin Scorcese's nonprofit World Cinema Foundation will sponsor three restored screenings, including Metin Erksan's "Susuz Yaz", presented by Fatih Akin. Warner Bros. will celebrate 85 years of studio success with a screening of Richard Schickel's documentary "You Must Remember This: A History of Warner Bros." and a "Warner screening" every night at the Cinema de la Plage.
The festival also will present select titles not able to be screened in 1968 when the fest was closed down by French directors in support of national student protests.
Manoel de Oliveira, who will turn 100 in December, will preside over the 2008 Cannes Classics and screen his first film, "Douro, Faina Fluvial", while the Cinematheque Francaise will present the world premiere of its Technicolor restoration of Max Ophuls' last movie, "Lola Montes".
Martin Scorcese's nonprofit World Cinema Foundation will sponsor three restored screenings, including Metin Erksan's "Susuz Yaz", presented by Fatih Akin. Warner Bros. will celebrate 85 years of studio success with a screening of Richard Schickel's documentary "You Must Remember This: A History of Warner Bros." and a "Warner screening" every night at the Cinema de la Plage.
The festival also will present select titles not able to be screened in 1968 when the fest was closed down by French directors in support of national student protests.
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