Emine Yildirim

Articles de cet auteur (2)

• 

  Movie : Modern love in modern İstanbul in Irmak’s ’Issız Adam

  20 March 2009

  As I was getting out of his latest “Issız Adam” (“The Isolated Man” or “My Isolated Ada,” depending on how you read it in Turkish), I got so angry with myself. How dare I possibly release tears for this sappy love story, loosely inspired by Erich Segal’s similarly gooey “Love Story”?
  But I should have known there was no escape — Irmak is not only a crowd-pleaser but also a cunningly gifted tear-jerker. He hooked everyone who was aching for a larger-than-life romance on their TV screens with that (...)

• 

  Nuri Bilge Ceylan : the road to perdition

  23 January 2009

  After director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s third successful return from the Cannes Film Festival — this year having received the best director award — everyone has been anxiously expecting his “Üç Maymun” (Three Monkeys) to hit the national cinema screens.
  This week the wait is over and, even better, Ceylan and his producers have launched an alternative distribution strategy, the first of its kind in Turkey. Fifteen movie theaters in Turkey, all owned by the Cinebonus chain, will release the (...)