Remake Remix Rip-Off (2014)
As you may have learned from this week of films, Turkey is one of the biggest producers of pop culture in the world, despite a film industry that still has no budget, huge demand and little to no training. To keep up, often screenwriters and directors began creating cover versions of movies and characters from […]
Sign of the Cross (1932)
The third of Cecille B. DeMille’s Biblical trilogy, following The Ten Commandments (1923) and The King of Kings (1927), this religious-themed movie actually upset Catholics so much that the Catholic Legion of Decency, an organization dedicated to identifying and combating objectionable content, was formed in 1934. I used to love checking out what movies they […]
Kara Simsek (1985)
As you may know by now, I love the Rocky films. And after this week, you may not understand, but know my love for Turkish cinema. Now someone got pizza sauce in my Kuzu Tandır with this combo plate, written and directed by the always dependable Çetin Inanç and starring Serdar Kebapçilar. The two would also […]
Intikam Melegi/Kadin Hamlet (1976)
The Angel of Vengeance/The Female Hamlet somehow takes Shakespeare, inverts the gender and was made by film historian Metin Erksan, who directed the movie known as the Turkish Exorcist, Şeytan. Buck Henry selected this to play at the Los Angeles Filmex Film Festival. Instead of taking place inside the royal palace of Elsinore, this Hamlet takes place […]
Kilink Istanbul’da (1967)
Kilink in Istanbul takes the Italian photo comic supervillain Killing and places him into mortal combat with the Turkish version — well, one of many — of Superman, here known as Flying Man. Kilink (Yildirim Gencer) was dead, but maybe he was just resting, because his lover has brought him back to life to take over the world […]
Kilink Ucan Adama Karsi (1967)
Kilink — KIlling — is an Italian anti-hero in the mold of Diabolik co-opted by the Turkish copyright smashing machine, which also has its grimy hands on Superman in the sequel to Kilink Istanbul’da. You may ask, why have I put these films on the site completely out of order? That’s because it won’t matter. They […]
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