Whereas westerns reflect a longing for a vanished past, Turkish cinema is examining and lamenting modernisation as it happens Interior designs … Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia typifies the introspective trend among Turkish film-makers. Photograph: Rex Features/Everett Collection By the time Sergio Leone got to Monument Valley in 1968 to film exteriors for Once Upon a Time in the West, its sandstone buttes – engrained in the popular consciousness by their presence in John Ford's westerns – had already assumed the hulking mythic grandeur the great Italian director needed for his story of American beginnings. Nuri Bilge Ceylan was surely hoping for a little of the same when he had his...
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