The first two-thirds or so of Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — his first film since 2008’s Three Monkeys, which earned him a Best Director award at Cannes — are frustratingly ...

Editor’s note: A version of this review originally ran during the Cannes Film Festival. “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” opens at Film Forum on Wednesday. A slow-burn study of investigatory obsession ...

Two films that won prizes at last year's Cannes Film Festival -- the French-language dramatic comedy 'Le Havre' and the Turkish drama 'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia' -- both get limited engagement this ...

A gorgeous trailer has landed for Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s latest effort, the 196-minute “Winter Sleep,” set to compete for the Palme d’Or at the upcoming Cannes. Ceylan’s brilliant “Once ...

A 157-minute police procedural, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia elevates Turkey's leading filmmaker, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, to a new level of achievement. Like Ceylan's earlier films, it's an impeccably ...

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics discuss American Reunion, Damsels in Distress, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope. Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Tim Cogshell ...

A stormy night somewhere in Anatolia, the Asian part of Turkey: Three police cars wind their way through a narrow lane in a hilly landscape. Under the command of Police Commissioner Naci (Ylmaz ...

Two Oscar foreign-language contenders, Iran's "A Separation" and Turkey's "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia," were the big winners at Thursday's Asia Pacific Screen Awards, which took place in Queensland, ...

An overnight search for a body yields a quietly poignant autopsy on the human condition in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's somber, rigorous new feature. “Anatolia’s” imposing title and 157-minute running time ...

As the title hints, it's a kind of Western: A small-town posse (police chief, prosecutor, stenographer and coroner) drives by night through the Turkish steppe, trying to illuminate the shallow grave ...

A few days into 2012, and we already have a favorite for the New Year's best movie: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. It's also, as with Ceylan's earlier films, an impeccably beautiful ...

The title conjures up Sergio Leone, but this Turkish drama by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Three Monkeys) has more in common with an actual bedtime story, in that you may be asleep before it’s over. A trio of ...