Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002. Starring: Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak. Foreign/Asian Cinema. Everyone’s paying homage to Tarkovsky nowadays, it seems, albeit often losing something in the translation. Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan is among the few directors (along with Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako, Malian Souleymane Ciss,e and Iranian Abbas Kiarostami) who thankfully picks up not only on … Continue reading Photoplays We Fancy — Uzak (Distant)
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Irish Bishops Move St. Patrick's Day 2008 Over Conflict With Holy Week "Religious celebrations for St. Patrick's Day will come two days early in Ireland next year to avoid a conflict with Holy Week. St. Patrick's Day is usually celebrated March 17, but Ireland's bishops have shifted the feast day, in honor of the national … Continue reading Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Eric Brightwell 