FILM REVIEWS Once Upon a Time in Anatolia [2010]

The Wages of Truth: Close-Up on “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”


Duncan Gray, MUBI, 23 August 2012.


Once Upon a Time in Anatolia


Philip French, Observer, 18 March 2012

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film, a thriller as challenging as Antonioni’s Blow-Up, is his finest work to date

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia


Peter Bradshaw Guardian, 15 March 2012

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new film is long and difficult, and perhaps not for everyone, but I can only say it is a kind of masterpiece: audacious, uncompromising and possessed of a mysterious grandeur in its wintry pessimism.

FILM 250 mostly obscure, mostly overlooked, and/or mostly unloved films. [apparently]

Ain’t Nobody’s Blues But My Own

— Flying in the face of consensus — A selection of 250 mostly obscure,
mostly overlooked, and/or mostly unloved films.


From They Shoot Horses Don’t They? With an intro by Bill Georgaris. 29 February 2012. Update of 2010 compilation.


Useful: a thumb-nail graphic for each film, so it’s easy to run through the three-column layout. Each potted review has a few links to other reviews.

FILM So You Want My Job: Screenwriter

So You Want My Job: Screenwriter


Brett and Kate Mckay, The Art of Manliness, 10 August 2012

FILM Screenwriting 2.0 in the Classroom? Teaching the Digital Screenplay

Screenwriting 2.0 in the Classroom? Teaching the Digital Screenplay


Andrew Kenneth Gay, Frames Film Journal, Issue 1 2012 [University of St Andrews]


Table of Contents Issue 1

FILM DIRECTOR Bertrand Tavernier

Bertrand Tavernier

by

Carloss James Chamberlin


Senses of Cinema, 5 October 2003