Nuri Bilge Ceylan Collected Films 1995-2018 (Blu-ray box set)

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s first feature, Kasaba, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 1998, but it was when his third feature, Uzak, won the Cannes Grand Prix in 2003 (as well as the Best Actor prize for the two leads) that he became more widely known. Since then in Cannes he has won the Grand Prix a second time for Once upon a Time in Anatolia, Best Director for Three Monkeys, the FIPRESCI prize for Climates and finally the Palme d’Or for Winter Sleep in 2014. The 8 features he has made so far over these 20 years, the last 4 co-written with his wife Ebru, have propelled him to the ranks of the very top film directors working today. Kasaba, Clouds of May, Uzak, Climates and Three Monkeys plus his first short, Koza, are now being released in this collection on Blu-ray for the first time. Once upon a Time in Anatolia, Winter Sleep and The Wild Pear Tree make up this set of his complete films to date. The collection includes several interviews with Nuri Bilge Ceylan made over the course of his career, plus many making-of documentaries.

The 4 discs for Kasaba, The Clouds of May, Uzak and Climates are region-free.
The 4 discs for Three Monkeys, Once upon a Time in Anatolia, Winter Sleep and The Wild Pear Tree are region B.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish film director, photographer, screenwriter and actor born in Istanbul in 1959. After several years of studying electrical engineering, he got interested in photography and cinema. He then travelled to London and Katmandu, and did eighteen months of military service, before studying filmmaking for two years at Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul. He supported himself doing commercial photography. His first short film, Koza, was shown in Cannes in 1995.

His two first features, Kasaba and The Clouds of May were shown in Berlin, but it was Uzak in 2003 that brought him international recognition. Uzak won the Cannes Grand Prix as well as the Best Actor Prize for the two main actors. Each of his subsequent features, Climates (2006, Fipresci Award), Three Monkeys(2008, Best director), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Grand Jury Prize), successfully premiered in the Cannes official competition.

His previous film, Winter Sleep, was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and The Wild Pear Tree competed in the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

He is also a photographer who has published collections of photographs, notably Turkey Cinemascope.

More on his work can be found on his website

Filmography

1995 KOZA (COCOON)

Cannes 1995 - 20 min.

1997 KASABA (THE SMALL TOWN)

Berlin 1998

1999 THE CLOUDS OF MAY (MAYIS SIKINTISI)

Berlin 2000 - Competition

2003 UZAK (DISTANT)

Cannes 2003 – Grand Prix and Two Best Actor Prizes

2006 CLIMATES (IKLIMLER)

Cannes 2006 – Competition

2008 THREE MONKEYS (ÜÇ MAYMUN)

Cannes 2008 – Best Director Prize

2011 ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU'DA)

Cannes 2011- Grand Prix

2014 WINTER SLEEP

Cannes 2014 - Palme d'Or

2018 THE WILD PEAR TREE

Cannes 2018

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