0:04 Bergman collection 0:16 The Silence (1963) 1:06 Éric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales collection 1:35 Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984) 1:57 Andrei Rublev (Tarkosvky, 1966) 2:25 Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy 2:49 Knife in the Water (Polanski, 1962) 3:16 Abbas Kiarostami's Koker trilogy Love to see Ceylan in the closet, been a long time fan of his. His recent film About Dry Grasses had the best dialogue of 2023 for me. Suprising to hear that he got into Kiarostami when he got older, I would have expected Kiarostami to be the pivatol filmmaker to influence him most.
Not a surprise that he chose that collection, the influences are very obvious in his movies. Knew him with Winter Sleep, when he won the Palme d'Or of 2014, that was a surprise! One thing about him, he never disappoints, great filmmaker.
the audio in these videos bring up so many questions for the viewer. Is this closet to be found in a submarine? An underground station? On an airplane at 35,000 feet? Is the microphone covered in foam? I guess we shall never know, but continue to long for the invention of radio mics and de-noising filters. :)
Shoutout to Nuri for being one of the greatest living directors and for mostly getting boxsets; buying in bulk is the best strategy for the closet. A second shout out for making this video sound like it was produced underwater. Keep em coming!
Of course he was going to pick Tarkovsky.) Massive influence. That scene under the tree in the Wild Pear Tree instantly came to mind when he picked Andrey Rublev.
I saw Distant, Once Upon a Time In Anatolia, Winter Sleep and The Wild Pear Tree. I'm undecided whether my favorite is Once Upon A Time In Anatolia or Winter Sleep, but they're both great. I prefer them over the other two.
For me, as a young Turk, it's The Wild Pear Tree. It's especially popular with young people here because it's so, so, so relatable. It has an autographic side to it which leads to an amazing conclusion: Nuri was in his 20s in 1980s and that means 40 years later, nothing ever changed in societal structure of Turkey.
One of the greatest contemporary directors Very easy to predict his selections, there influence is embodied in his cinema… watching this episode is like a deja vu
Great person and great director. I saw many films he recommend, Specially Bergmann, Tarkowski, Kiarostami. Rohmer. Directors like this will never come into the world again.
I wouldn't have pegged him as a Jarmusch fan, but wow, his admiration for Stranger Than Paradise just makes so much sense now that I think about it. Same with Knife in the Water (the only Polanski I fuck with). "And sometimes luxury can even be a burden." He also makes a good point about how AT made such a leap from Ivan's Childhood to Rublev. It's really bewildering.
Yeah I never would've got the Jarmusch thing either! I find Ceylan's movies so damn serious - like his other selections here - while Jarmusch is often pretty light or playing about with what just looks and feels cool, IME. Not a criticism, I just wouldn't have joined the dots before he said it.
It's amazing how his picks are so detached from his own works both thematically and technically. That alone should be enough proof that he has his own very unique, very distinctive style of cinema. So happy to see him on Criterion!
Amazing selection and seemed to pick so many of my favourites. Plus digging the background noise. Sounds like a Kevin Drumm record. Strangers in Paradise is the best!
Uzak was such a wake up call for me about cinema as an art form when I was in my late teens. It was the first time I deeply identified myself with a protagonist, and later realized as I learned more about NBC that it was also a psychological autobiography of sorts. However, the Wild Pear tree was such a let down. It was rushed and still rough on the edges. The dialogue felt like a first draft.
0:01 Ingmar Bergman - 0:42 - 01:05 Six Moral Days / Eric Rohmer - 01:28 Stranger Than Paradise - 01:52 Andrei Rublev - 02:21 The Apu Trilogy - 02:46 Knife in the Water - 03:13 Abbas Kiarostami - 04:20 Bye😁
I feel like his movies either really hit you or you don't connect with them at all and cant wait til its over (which is understandable when most of them are about 3 hours long). I watched Winter Sleep and I instantly put it into my top dozen films of all time. It just really connected with me for some reason. Then I watched A Wild Pear Tree the next day and understood why people might not like his films. I was tired and halfway through the movie, I was just itching for something to happen but then i realized not much is supposed to happen. I'm eager to check out his other films but i know i have to be in the right mindset now
If you are not turkish it is understandable that wild pear tree didnt resonate with you. Characters in that movie are some TYPES turkish people know very well. Didnt yoj like the ending tho
Who are these people "not connecting with his films at all...?" Friends of yours? Or are you reading internet babble? We are in an age where Christopher Nolan and old, rehashed tropes about white messiah's (via Dune) and films about the "Joker" are being hailed as masterpieces. We are in a socialmedia, streaming, age where GenZ and others aren't making stories they're making "content!" Some of the worse movies in the last twenty five years are being made right now for you. So, who are these people that you're listening to about not connecting with Ceylan? His films are long (which is actually fashionable right now) and aren't about super powers or inject trendy, lgbqurst content, so maybe the crowd you're listening to just have pedestrian, contemporary, crappy as heck, taste?!
To the RU-vid guru at Criterion Collection: Please take the time and trouble (surely also in your own interest) to list, and if possible link, the chosen films. I find it extraordinarily frustrating to find that I often cannot identify the film in question. But thank you for producing this wonderful and unique resource.
The Criterion Collection should focus more on Turkish films and directors. Unfortunately, the world does not know Turkish directors. What a shame! I will recommend 3 great master directors and their films: Yavuz Turgul, Atıf Yılmaz and Ertem Eğilmez. The last two are dead, but Yavuz Turgul is still alive and still making good movies with Şener Şen, Turkey's most popular and important actor. There is a great director and actor collaboration. This is a loyal collaboration that will be rare in the history of world cinema. Maybe there is even no other example. Among all the auteur directors in the world, Yavuz Turgul may be the auteur director who remains most loyal to his own "treadmarks" in each of his films. And he writes the scripts of each of his films by himself. He shoots a film every 7-8 years. The movie "Eşkiya", which he shot in 1996, is considered the "Best Movie in the History of Turkish Cinema" according to many Turkish film critics and academics and the majority of Turkish moviegoers. Like almost most of Turgul's films, this is a "magical realism" film... The Criterion Collection should definitely check out this movie and other Yavuz Turgul movies: - "Eşkıya" (1996) - "Muhsin Bey" (1986) - "Aşk Filmlerinin Unutulmaz Yönetmeni" (1990) - "Gölge Oyunu" (1992) - "Gönül Yarası" (2004) - "Av Mevsimi" (2010) - "Züğürt Ağa" (1985) ... Atıf Yılmaz's great films: - "Ahh Güzel İstanbul" (1966) - "Kibar Feyzo" (1968) - "Ne Olacak Şimdi?" - "Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım" (1977) - "Köroğlu Destanı" (1968) - "Keşanlı Ali Destanı" (1964) - "Erkek Ali" (1964) - "Ahh Belinda" (1986) ... Ertem Eğilmez's great films: - "Canım Kardeşim" (1973) - "Family Quardiology" (1975-1977) - "Hababam Sınıfı Series" (1975-1981) - "Banker Bilo" (1980) - "Namuslu" (1984) - "Arabesk" (1988)
Hey Criterion "sound person". Buy a LAVALIER MICROPHONE (they are cheap), wired or wireless, and clip it to the speaker's clothes. Plug the receiver, or the other end of the wire into your camera or sound recorder. Any guest you have in that closet would probably be happy to show you how this works. This will reduce the background noise, and more people will enjoy your uploads.
@criterioncollection Could we, as the audience/viewers, try to guess the cause of the audio issue in the background of the video? Here are some possible reasons: 1) Someone might be running a washing machine, 2) the air conditioning might be running and the microphone could be picking it up, 3) there could be something wrong with the audio settings, 4) you might be enjoying us talking about it and so you are carrying on, or 5) David Lynch might be involved in this. Answer, please! 🙏📽🎞💡
I understood him to mean not that it doesn't have any style, just that the grammar of the framing and editing is close to the European mainstream of, say, Bergman, Dreyer, Wajda or early Antonioni. By his second film, Tarkovsky had forged his own vision.
Yeah I can understand where he is getting at - Andrei Rublev is also probably my favorite of his, and the scope is so incredible and ambitious. But I still think there are plenty of characteristics of his style both in the camera work and general direction already in Ivan's Childhood.
"You can put all your problems, all your sicknesses, everything in a movie." Quite! Bergman, Hitchcock, Fellini, Lynch... a pretty long list!😄. Thanks.
