Best of SFIFF (and New on Video): Turkish Treasure Winter Sleep
Posted By Jonathan Kiefer on Thu, May 7, 2015 at 4:01 PM
“You knew this was a three-hour-and-twenty-minute movie, right?”
So said San Francisco Film Society programmer Rod Armstrong, to mostly enthusiastic murmurs from a sizable crowd, while introducing Winter Sleep at the Kabuki Theater the other night. Allowing that running time can be a factor in these things, Armstrong lamented the unfortunate truth that last year’s Cannes champ, from Turkish art-house deity Nuri Bilge Ceylan, had never found a big-screen booking in San Francisco — that is, until the Film Society managed to sneak it in as a late addition to the SFIFF. He added that it was heartening to see such a good turnout on the day the movie happened also to be coming out on DVD.
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