Rhinegold (2024)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Fatih Akin
Starring: Denis Moschitto | Emilio Sakraya | Ilyes Moutaoukkil | Kardo Razzazi | Mona Pirzad
Soul Kitchen (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Fatih Akin
Starring: Adam Bousdoukos | Anna Bederke | Birol Ünel | Lukas Gregorowicz | Moritz Bliebtreu | Pheline Roggan
Bruce says: “Fatih Akin’s first international hit HEAD-ON was an augury of great things to come. Certainly the Chlotrudis Best Picture, THE EDGE OF HEAVEN, bore out any such theories of predication regarding his work. Along comes SOUL KITCHEN which,
Read the review...New York, I Love You (2009)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Allen Hughes | Brett Ratner | Fatih Akin | Joshua Marston | Mira Niar | Natalie Portman | Randall Balsmeyer | Shekhar Kapur | Shunji Iwai | Wen Jiang | Yvan Attal
Starring: Blake Lively | Bradley Cooper | Christina Ricci | Ethan Hawke | Natalie Portman | Orlando Bloom | Shia LaBeouf
Thom says: “This companion piece to PARIS JE T’AIME isn’t quite as good as the Paris version. The former concentrated on all different districts of the ‘City of Light,’ each with its own yarn, and was quite a bit more
Read the review...The Edge of Heaven (2008)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fatih Akin
Starring: Baki Davrak | Hanna Schygulla | Nurgül Yesilçay | Nursel Köse | Patrycia Ziolkowska | Tuncel Kurtiz
Michael says: “Fatih Akin made a bit of a splash a few years ago with his film HEAD-ON. The director was born in Germany from a Turkish heritage, and his films, at least the two I have seen, take place
Read the review...Head-On (2005)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Fatih Akin
Starring: Birol Ünel | Catrin Striebeck | Sibel Kekilli
Diane says: “Director and screenwriter Fatih Akin, himself born in Hamburg to Turkish parents, tells a bleak and bloody story of two Turkish Germans, Cahit and Sibel, who meet after their respective suicide attempts and form a marriage of convenience.
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