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Month: September, 2008

Yeşim Ustaoğlu’s Pandora’s Box – Pandoranin Kutusu

10 September, 2008 (12:29) | Characters, Films, Yilmaz, The Little Boy of Istanbul, human rights, istanbul | 1 comment

In my previous posting I described my disappointment at not being able to obtain tickets to see Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film “Three Monkeys” so instead, I bought tickets for another Turkish film of which I knew absolutely nothing called Pandora’s Box. Sometimes, we find a little treasure unexpectedly and what a jewel of a find [...]

Three Monkeys

4 September, 2008 (21:35) | Films, Photographers, istanbul | No comments

I’m sad. I didn’t get a ticket to see Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s film “Three Monkeys” at the Toronto Film Festival. They were all sold out. I had to work when the tickets went on sale to the public. I got to the box office almost three hours later. I went to Craigslist and a ticket [...]