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                                            A Tale of Three Sisters  Director: Emin Alper Writer: Emin Alper Stars: Cemre Ebuzziya ,  Ece Yüksel ,  Helin Kandemir , Müfit Kayacan , Kayhan Açikgöz , Kubilay Tunçer Awards : Istanbul International Film Festival/ Best Actress ; National Competition Cemre Ebuzziya - Helin Kandemir - Ece Yüksel , Best Director; Emin Alper, Best Music; Giorgos Papaioannou , Nikos Papaioannou Sarajevo Film Festival/   Best Director; Emin Alper, C.I.C.A.E. Award ; Emin Alper In a small village in the mountains of northeastern Turkey, three peasant sisters uneasily reunite under their father’s rustic roof in  Emin Alper ’s opaque, oddly theatrical “ A Tale of Three Sisters .” Stunningly lensed in widescreen amidst the rocky peaks, the film struggles to excite admiration outside the visuals, forcing the vie...

Director: Alfonso Cuarón Writer: Alfonso Cuarón Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Nancy Garcia Garcia Awards:   Academy Award/   Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Achievement in Cinematography Golden Globes/  Best Director - Motion Picture, Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language, Best Screenplay - Motion Picture Bafta Awards/  Best Film, Best Film Not in the English Language, Best Cinematography Roma is fundamentally the tale of two women. One is Cleo (played wonderfully by non-professional newcomer Yalitza Aparicio), a young woman of Mixteco Mesoamerican heritage working as a live-in maid for a beleaguered upper-middle-class family in Mexico  City. Cleo’s personal life is beginning to unravel in tandem with that of her employer, Sofía (Marina De Tavira). Cuarón shows how the household, though placid enough, is under pressure. There are...

Director : Bryan Singer Writers : Anthony McCarten,Peter Morgan Stars:  Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello   Bohemian Rhapsody is a 2018  biographical drama film about Freddie Mercury,the lead singer of British rock band Queen.It  follows Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek) as he seeks to fulfill his dream of becoming a famous singer. Mercury rebels against his traditional Parsi family and joins the band that will become Queen. Adopting the surname Mercury, Freddie becomes a superstar as he and his bandmates create the exuberant music that electrifies audiences in the 1970s and 1980s.    Awards: Academy Awards/ Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role(Rami Malek) Best Achievement in Film Editing(John Ottoman) Golden Globes/ Best Motion Picture - Drama           Resource prepared by Deniz Kodaş

    A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess,   published in 1962 . A Clockwork Orange   tells the story of Alex, a Beethoven-mad thug with a lovely internal monologue. Eloquent in Nadsat, his teen argot, a heady mix of Russian, romany and rhyming slang, Alex narrates his career as the leader of a gang of “droogs”, Peter, Georgie and Dim. It is often said that these brutes derive from the mods and rockers, but Biswell shows conclusively that a deeper inspiration comes from Burgess’s wartime experience.    A brilliant and sinister opening of horrific “ultra violence” describes the gang on the rampage: terrorising a school teacher, beating a drunk, carving up a rival gang, stealing a car, and ransacking a country cottage, having tortured a harmless literary man and gang-raped his wife. After the sick brio of this opening, the novel settles into Alex’s subsequent incarceration in State Jail 84F...

Director :   Noah Baumbach Stars       : Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Ray Liotta, Alan Alda    Marriage Story is a 2019 drama film written, directed, and produced by Noah Baumbach. It stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, with Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Julie Hagerty, and Merritt Wever in supporting roles. The film follows a married couple, one a stage director and the other an actress (Driver and Johansson), going through a coast-to-coast divorce. The project was announced in November 2017, with the cast joining that month. Filming took place in Los Angeles and New York City between January and April of the following year. Released by Netflix, the film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2019, and began a limited theatrical release on November 6, followed by digital streaming on December 6. Marriage Story received critical acclaim, with particular praise for Baumbach...

Real Bloodsuckers: Parasite In the movie, which starts with images dominated by a general Asian and Asian life, we meet the KI-Taek family living in an old house and struggling to survive. The life of the family, who tries to survive by trying various ways, changes their life completely when the house son Kevin begins to teach a rich family with the help of a friend. Parasite, which pushed us to be a side in the first and second half, is a movie that wants us to believe that it is not at all and contains many different options. When we think that the family who are fond and try to survive enter the house with dishonesty, do their job properly and earn money, we think that they are like a “parasite” that gnaws the house. However, the movie wants us to reject this idea from the second half. So much so that capitalism rose in South Korea, as in the rest of the world, and the rich was richer and the poor were poorer.   Although the family we saw in Parasite c...

    The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Lazy in style, full of slang and swear words, it's a novel whose interest and appeal comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues (in conventional terms, there is hardly any plot at all). Salinger's style creates an effect of conversation, it is as though Holden is speaking to you personally, as though you too have seen through the pretences of the American Dream and are growing up unable to see the point of living in, or contributing to, the society around you. Written with the clarity of a boy leaving c...