Aralarında João César Monteiro, Raul Ruiz, Werner Schroeter, Robert Kramer ve Derek Jarman’ın da yer aldığı birçok büyük sinemacının hem arkadaşı olan, hem de onların filmlerinde ses mühendisliği yapan, aynı zamanda 20 yıldır HIV ve Hepatit C ile yaşayan aktivist Joaquim Pinto’nun ilham verici hayatına seyirciyi ortak eden What Now? Remind Me/Peki Şimdi? Hatırlat Bana, 13. !f İstanbul Uluslararası Bağımsız Filmler Festivali, Gökkuşağı bölümünde seyirciyle buluşuyor.
#What Now? Remind MeDört Oscar ödülü, BAFTA ve Altın Küre ödülleri dahil olmak üzere toplam 17 ödül alan, 1969 ABD yapımı "Sonsuz Ölüm" (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) dahil pek çok film müziğinde imzası bulunan efsane ünlü söz yazarı Hal David (Herald Lane David), felce bağlı sağlık sorunları nedeniyle 91 yaşında hayata veda etti.
Last week, this column was host to an expatriate reader’s widely "optimistic" comments on Turkey’s new (or, rather, newly formalized) foreign policy czar. Today, there is another expatriate guest, with rather more "cautious" comments on Ahmet Davutoğlu as our new foreign minister.
ISTANBUL - While April 25 will see thousands of Australians and New Zealanders once more descend on Gallipoli to be present at this year’s Anzac Day ceremony, the real memory of this horrific campaign lies forever silently entrenched along the ridges and shores of this significant peninsula.
A person should have lost all his sensitivity not to involve in debates over Ergenekon. There was no doubt that there will be people who want to prevent the chance to "clean Turkey’s intestines." However, only few people could imagine that political parties with "leftist" mask and many people, who have columns and who rule the screens, would attempt to defend those whose blemishes have already appeared, so-called unions which have undertaken the task of "sponsorship" for each subject except workers’ rights and "extra-judicial production plants."
If you don’t already know him, let me introduce you to former Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel, Mordechai Eliyahu, an 80-year-old man of faith. In May 2007, he wrote a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to give him some religious advice on what to do with the Palestinians. As reported in the Jerusalem Post on May 30, 2007, the retired chief rabbi was furious about the rockets fired from Gaza into Israel and held the whole population in the Strip responsible. "An entire city holds collective responsibility for the immoral behavior of individuals," he argued.
I have great sympathy for the Palestinian people. They are my co-religionists with whom I share a common history and culture. Every now and then I recall with nostalgia that the Ottoman Sultans, living in my home city, Istanbul, used to rule Palestine for centuries in a way that made it possible for its people live in peace and security.
The Israeli air force has been bombing the Gaza Strip since last Saturday. As of yesterday, the death toll was over 400 hundred. According to the United Nations, a quarter of these people were women and children. The wounded, which again included hundreds of innocent civilians, were calculated to be more than 1,000.
I know very well what establishing an independent Kurdish state means for Turkey. I am also aware of the results of the possible transformation of Kirkuk into a Kurdish capital and the northern Iraqi oil commitment to the Kurdish administration.
Again, we face the funerals of slain soldiers, 5 for soldiers killed by clashes with the PKK outside of Sirnal, and 1 for a policeman killed by a rocket attack on his station in Bingol. For now though, it looks like the government has quieted down the attempt at uprising in the Southeast. But at the very first opportunity, this will all happen again. Why? Because in that region, the government has lost its character as any sort of government. Most of the authority now lies in the hand of the PKK-supporting Democratic Society (DTP) Party members and city mayors.