TURKISH - Stanford University

SCREENINGS START
AT 7:00 PM .
S TANFORD U NIVERSITY
B ECHTEL I NTERNATIONAL
C ENTER, A SSEMBLY R OOM
(584 C APISTRANO W AY ,
S TANFORD )
A LL F ILMS ARE I N T URKISH
WITH E NGLISH SUBTITLES
S CREENINGS ARE F REE
AND O PEN TO P UBLIC
BEFORE THE S CREENINGS A
LIGHT D INNER AND
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE
SERVED
F ILMS IN THE SERIES
W EDNESDAY , J ANUARY 12
T HE BANDIT
THE MEDITERRANEAN
STUDIES FORUM
PRESENTS
W INTER 2011
W EDNESDAY , F EBRUARY 2
W AITING FOR HEAVEN
W EDNESDAY , F EBRUARY 16
T WO G IRLS
T URKISH
F ILM SERIES
W EDNESDAY , M ARCH 2
B LISS
W EDNESDAY , M ARCH 9
T HE E DGE OF H EAVEN
Films are screened as a part of
Burcu Karahan-Richardson's
COMPLIT 144/244A
The Interplay between Turkish Cinema
and Literature .
For more information about the course:
http://explorecourses.stanford.edu.
Programming is partially made possible
by a gift from
the Turkish Cultural Foundation.
[C O - SPONSORED BY THE T URKISH S TUDENT
A SSOCIATION AT S TANFORD U NIVERSITY ]
For more information:
[email protected]
http://mediterraneanstudies.stanford.edu
J ANUARY 12
F EBRUARY 2 AND 16
M ARCH 2 AND 9
S TANFORD U NIVERSITY
B ECHTEL I NTERNATIONAL C ENTER
A SSEMB LY R OOM
584 C APISTRANO W AY
IN COLLABORATION WITH
TURKISH STUDENT ASSOCIATION
AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Wednesday, January 12
Wednesday, February 2
Wednesday, February 16
Bandit (Eşkıya)
Waiting for Heaven (Cenneti Beklerken)
Two Girls (İki Genç Kız)
dir. Yavuz Turgul, 1996
dir. Derviş Zaim, 2006
dir. Kutluğ Ataman, 2005
Cast
ġener ġen, Uğur
Yücel, Sermin
Hürmeriç, Özkan Uğur, Kamran Usluer
Synopsis
Adventures of Baran the
Bandit following his release
from prison. After 35 years,
Baran is shocked to discover
that his home village is now
underwater. He heads for
Istanbul to get revenge upon
his former best friend for
stealing his lover. Along the
way, Baran teams up with
Cumali, a tough young punk
who finds the thief's oldfashioned ways rather
quaint.
121 minutes
Wednesday, March 2
Bliss (Mutluluk)
dir. Abdullah Oğuz, 2007
Cast
Özgü Namal,
Murat Han,
Talat Bulut
Cast
Serhat Tutumluer, Melisa
Sözen,
Mesut Akusta,
Nihat Ġleri
Synopsis
Synopsis
Eflatun is a master miniature artist who
lives in the 17th century Istanbul. One
day, he is taken to the vizier's mansion
by force. There he learns that one of the
Ottoman princes, who has ignited an
insurrection, is arrested in a far off state
and to be executed soon. Eflatun is
ordered to make a portrait of the rebel
prince in a Western manner to help the
authorities clarify his identity and
motives to the public.
The story of the passionate
and unbalanced friendship,
different perspectives on
life, and incidents of two
girls that are about to enter
womanhood. Behiye does
not accept the roles of
ordinary woman and is
rebellious. Handan is a girl
that is having the trauma of
a dissolved family and she
needs and searches for
love.
107 minutes
103 minutes
Wednesday, March 9
The Edge of Heaven
(Auf der anderen Seite/Yaşamın Kıyısında)
dir. Fatih Akın, 2007
Synopsis
Synopsis
Meryem is found
unconscious and raped. Her
family decides to kill her by
the necessity of custom. The
task is given to her cousin
Cemal. On their journey of
death, Meryem and Cemal
unexpectedly cross paths
with sociology professor
Irfan Kurudal who sets sail
to leave his current life
behind as a result of his own
identity crisis.
Two mothers, two daughters, a father
105 minutes
Cast
Nurgül Yeşilçay, Baki
Davrak, Tuncel
Kurtiz, Hanna
Schygulla
Cast
Hülya Avşar,
Vildan atasever,
Feride Çetin
and a son, all arranged in more or less
symmetrical pairs. In the course of the
film children are lost, lost parents are
never found, and generational and
geographical distances grow wider. Yet
at the same time, as the lives of the
characters cross and entwine, there is a
sense of human connections becoming
stronger and thicker, of a fragile moral
order coalescing beneath the
randomness and cruelty of modern life.
116 minutes
FILMS ARE SCREENED AS A PART OF
B URCU KARAHAN-RICHARDSON'S
COMPLIT 144/244A
THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN TURKISH CINEMA
AND LITERATURE .
This course investigates differing degrees of
interaction between literature and the films
it inspires. We look at literary adaptations
that exemplify somewhat faithful renditions
of the texts as well as those that merely
share a common subject matter. Among the
themes we investigate are different forms of
banditry, honor killings, the use of books in
film, and problems of representation.
F O R THE CO URSE , T HE FILMS ARE P AIRED WITH
THE F O LLO WING NO VELS :
B ANDIT — M EMED , M Y H AWK BY Y AŞAR K EMAL
W AITING F OR H EAVEN — M Y N AME IS R ED BY
O RHAN PA MUK
T WO GIRLS — T WO G IRLS BY P ERĠHAN M AĞDEN
B LISS — B LISS BY Z ÜLFÜ L ĠVANELĠ
T HE E DGE OF H EAVEN — T HE BLACKSMITH’ S
D AUGHTER B Y S ELĠM Ö ZDOĞAN