HOPE opens four-film Yilmaz Guney series
With his pivotal 1970 work HOPE , Yilmaz Güney, who was Turkey’s most popular actor during the 1960s, embarked on the road to becoming Turkey’s most celebrated filmmaker. HOPE saw Güney forsaking the mindless action melodramas that had made him famous and taking his work in a semi-autobiographical, socially-conscious new direction. In doing so, he struck a chord with the long-suffering Turkish public. The movie stars Güney as a put-upon everyman named Cabbar, a debt-ridden cart driver struggling to feed his large family. When one of his two horses is struck by a Mercedes and dies, the desperate Cabbar has to work even harder to make ends meet, while also seeking justice for the injury. Initially banned in Turkey, HOPE evokes great postwar Italian neorealist works like THE BICYCLE THIEF. On Friday you have a very rare chance to see it in a new 35mm print imported from Turkey.
THE HERD is another hard-hitting Guney film
Scripted by Yilmaz Güney while he was in prison for murder, and directed by proxy, the 1978 Turkish drama THE HERD is a powerful social drama that chronicles the disintegration of a family of naïve, nomadic shepherds as they transport their sheep from rural Anatolia to urban Ankara. The Holt Foreign Film Guide calls this important work by the great Güney “abrasive, violent and lyrical.” On Saturday you can see it in a new, 35mm color print imported from Turkey
With his pivotal 1970 work HOPE , Yilmaz Güney, who was Turkey’s most popular actor during the 1960s, embarked on the road to becoming Turkey’s most celebrated filmmaker. HOPE saw Güney forsaking the mindless action melodramas that had made him famous and taking his work in a semi-autobiographical, socially-conscious new direction. In doing so, he struck a chord with the long-suffering Turkish public. The movie stars Güney as a put-upon everyman named Cabbar, a debt-ridden cart driver struggling to feed his large family. When one of his two horses is struck by a Mercedes and dies, the desperate Cabbar has to work even harder to make ends meet, while also seeking justice for the injury. Initially banned in Turkey, HOPE evokes great postwar Italian neorealist works like THE BICYCLE THIEF. On Friday you have a very rare chance to see it in a new 35mm print imported from Turkey.
THE HERD is another hard-hitting Guney film
Scripted by Yilmaz Güney while he was in prison for murder, and directed by proxy, the 1978 Turkish drama THE HERD is a powerful social drama that chronicles the disintegration of a family of naïve, nomadic shepherds as they transport their sheep from rural Anatolia to urban Ankara. The Holt Foreign Film Guide calls this important work by the great Güney “abrasive, violent and lyrical.” On Saturday you can see it in a new, 35mm color print imported from Turkey
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