Fatih Akin

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Crossing over

Fatih Akin’s blue Heaven
As a German of Turkish descent, Fatih Akin has demonstrated an understandable preoccupation with borders — national, cultural, generational, sexual — in his films.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 25, 2008

Akin talks Turkey

Cutting Edge of Heaven
Did he worry that it might sound like the name of an undiscovered Douglas Sirk film?
By PETER KEOUGH | June 25, 2008

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Borderless realm of love, loss, and reconciliation
Maybe opening this year’s Boston Turkish Film Festival with a movie by Fatih Akin is the festival’s way of calling attention to Turkey’s hopes of joining the European Union.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 19, 2008

Music and macho

Fatih Akin in Turkey, Valentino in a tie
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul a valiant effort by German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin to match what Wim Wenders did with Cuban music in Buena Vista Social Club : put the fabulously myriad sounds of Turkish music on the international map.
By GERALD PEARY | August 23, 2006

Drifting

Claire Denis’s L’intrus
French filmmaker Claire Denis has acknowledged that a host of sources inspired L’intrus|The Intruder (January 25–February 9 at the MFA), the tale of a sickly, reclusive Frenchman, Louis Trebor (Michel Subor), who after paying hard cash and buying a new heart sails for the South Seas, vaguely in search of a lost illegitimate son.
By GERALD PEARY | January 19, 2006

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