https://staging2.theplaylist.net/marrakech-film-festival-11-nuri-bilge-ceylan-talks-giving-up-total-control-his-accidental-embrace-of-genre-elements-20111210/ Fri, 13 May 2016 13:12:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/marrakech-film-festival-11-nuri-bilge-ceylan-talks-giving-up-total-control-his-accidental-embrace-of-genre-elements-20111210/#comment-83858 Fri, 13 May 2016 13:12:12 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/marrakech-film-festival-11-nuri-bilge-ceylan-talks-giving-up-total-control-his-accidental-embrace-of-genre-elements-114095/#comment-83858 I guess his continuing "obscurity" is a testament to how rarified the audience for long take cinema really is, even in the festival world. I met a programmer for a major American festival who joked that they call him "grumpy old NBC" around the her office, though she does admire his work. The entire "slow and boring" debate rankles me. The tyranny of impatience continues its long, slow stranglehold on the cinema.

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