Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street THE FILMS OF YILMAZ GUNEY Special thanks to the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism; Turkish Culture and Tourism Counselor's Office, Washington, D.C.; Hüseyin Karabey, THE HERD Thursday 2/16 @ 7 PM YOL Thursday 2/23 @ 7 PM The Güney Founda on; Erju Ackman, Turkish Winner of the Bri sh Film Ins tute award and Cinema Newsle er. This series features new 35mm the Golden Leopard (Grand Prize) at the Locarno prints provided by the Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture and Tourism – GeneralDirectorate of Copyright Film Fes val, The Herd has become a classic of and Cinema / Telif Haklari ve Sinema Genel world cinema. An austerely beau ful neorealist Müdürlügü, Dr. Abdurrahman Çelik, General Director. epic, The Herd portrays a Kurdish family from southern Anatolia who, embroiled in a blood Yilmaz Güney’s masterpiece — a majes c Saturday 2/11 @ 1 PM feud with a neighboring clan, are driven by their story about five prisoners released for a BRIDE OF THE EARTH tyrannical patriarch to auc on their flock of week‐long furlough whose individual sheep in far‐off Ankara. odysseys unite to form a grand allegory for the state of modern Turkey — won the Palme Saturday 2/18 @ 1 PM d’Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Fes val and ELEGY became a worldwide cause célèbre. A poor Anatolian man sets out to make his Professors Holly Shissler and Hakan Karateke fortune so that he can marry his beloved, but will introduce the film. her family has their eyes on a more profitable match with a rich landowner. Yilmaz Güney’s HOPE Saturday 2/25 @ 1 PM lyrical revenge drama echoes the masterful Yilmaz Güney directs and stars in this cinema of Satyajit Ray and Roberto Rossellini. Yilmaz Güney stars as one of a band of outlaws searing neorealist drama, o en compared to who fall into an ambush in a treacherous the classic Bicycle Thieves and hailed as one Saturday 2/11 @ 5 PM mountain landscape in this striking adventure of the best films in the history of Turkish drama, which has frequently been compared to cinema. THE HUNGRY WOLVES the films of Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa. THE POOR Saturday 2/25 @ 3 PM THE FRIEND Saturday 2/18 @ 3 PM Three convicts relate the causes for their A prosperous architect has a crisis of imprisonment in Yilmaz Güney’s gripping conscience a er reuni ng with his crusading drama, which had to be completed by a collaborator a er Güney was himself Yilmaz Güney directs and stars in this childhood friend in one of Yilmaz Güney’s imprisoned for harbouring anarchist students. ferociously exci ng “Turkish western” set in finest late works, which evokes the European the blinding snows of the eastern mountains, art cinema of Antonioni and Pasolini in its Admission: where a laconic hired killer finds himself both ellip cal narra ve and bold stylis c flourishes. $5 hunter and hunted. $25 series pass