About Dry Grasses review – rich, engrossing Turkish epic with a twist
A village teacher is accused of inappropriate behaviour in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s handsome, beautifully performed, three-and-a-half-hour fable
May 2023
About Dry Grasses review – Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s absorbing drama of a teacher-pupil crisis
The latest film from the Turkish film-maker is a studied, Chekhovian film about a schoolteacher accused of abuse by a female student
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
February 2019
Observer European film
Europe in 25 films: the critics’ choice
The must-see movies that have defined a century of European cinema, as chosen by the Observer’s film writers
December 2018
The Wild Pear Tree review – leaves flutter with significance
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest epic tells the story of a graduate returning to his rural home
May 2018
The Wild Pear Tree review – Nuri Bilge Ceylan's delicious, humane tableaux
The Turkish director’s unhurried, magnificently acted film follows a bumptious young writer who returns home to face bittersweet truths
April 2017
Sofia Coppola to Michael Haneke: the movies and directors most likely to make it to Cannes
Coppola, Haneke and Todd Haynes are odds-on to be showing this year, but what about Jean-Luc Godard and David Lynch? We weigh the odds on films in the running
April 2015
Film-makers withdraw from Istanbul festival in censorship protest
Dozens of Turkish directors withdraw films after documentary Bakur is removed from programme
November 2014
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Winter Sleep review – a powerful meditation upon guilt
Nuri Bilge Ceylan on Winter Sleep: ‘I don't like comedies – I don't like to laugh’
May 2014
Cannes 2014: Nuri Bilge Ceylan criticises Turkish government over mine disaster
The 10 best films of 2012, No 7 – Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Andrew Pulver: Our roundup of marvellous movies continues with Nuri Bilge Ceylan's quietly gripping masterpiece set in the Turkish wilderness
March 2012
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia – review
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia review – possessed of a mysterious grandeur
February 2012
Yoghurt and murder with Nuri Bilge Ceylan
It won the Cannes grand prix – but people have been walking out of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. Stuart Jeffries finds him unrepentant
February 2009
Guardian interviews at the BFI
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Onstage at BFI Southbank, the Turkish director tells Geoff Andrew about what made him switch from photography to film-making, why his latest film is a departure from the autobiographical works of the past and why he never wants to shoot on film again
May 2008
How shoplifting in Brixton led to a film career
Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan has volunteered that a bit of opportunistic shoplifting during the Brixton riots ignited a passion for photography and film
February 2007
Where did our love go?
Film of the week: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest film, about a disintegrating relationship, is riveting art house cinema of the highest order, says Philip French.
May 2004
Death in Yenice
On the eve of the release of his Cannes hit Uzak, Nuri Bilge Ceylan tells Fiachra Gibbons why his leading man had to be awarded the festival's best actor gong posthumously.
