To be screened on Wednesday evening.
http://efas.livedrive.com/item/26c0b95ea2d14e1da176ce77764f597f
Eternity and a Day (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCDx5PM-FVs
Yol (1982)
The third of a trio of films which won the top prize at the Cannes film festival on EFAS this week. Turkish cinema also makes its EFAS debut with Yılmaz Güney's realistic portrayal of some of the harsher realities of life in Turkey in the early 1980s, based on his own experiences.
http://efas.livedrive.com/item/002c2c18b2444737a2cba8cb6788597a
http://efas.livedrive.com/item/5c8cf1804c4e4cf591e06647cab73d1a (subs)
Rome Open City:
ReplyDeleteFinally we did get to see this one, really the starting point of Italian neorealism, with its authenticity and immediacy in the settings and events it filmed, although it does get melodramatic too which is something neorealism wanted to do away with but never quite managed to.
Eternity and a day:
What a waste it was for Angelopoulos to go like that, and while working on his latest film too, he may have been in his 70s but he was still extremely active and who knows how many of his films that stupid accident deprived us.
Yol:
A film that didn't really set the world alight with our comrades, perhaps the inability to fully comprehend the sociocultural context of the film, and the poor quality of the picture (I think some had to watch it on youtube), did not help, but it certainly deserved better.
Addendum: When I say inability to fully comprehend, I mean that for anyone not Turkish or who has not studied the issues of Kurds in Turkey, and that includes myself not just our comrades!
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