The Picture House staff have produced a list of their top 50 films of the last year. There is a top ten on which regulars and friends can vote for a film to be re-screened in the coming days. However the film I would most like re-screened is in the top fifty but not the top ten. I suspect some readers may face the same issue. So I thought it was worth posting on my choice. It will be interesting to see if any other readers share this choice or indeed if they have other choices from the list.

Mine is Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses / Kuru Otlar Üstüne, (2023), listed at 14. As with most of his features this is scripted by Nuri with his partner Ebru. The feature runs for 197 minutes, in wide screen and colour; shot using digital formats. Set in the Turkish region of Anatolia, like most of Ceylan’s dramas, it focuses on a young teacher working in a remote village.

Ceylan’s movies are always worth watching; he is one of the finest film-maker working today. And in widescreen and colour it deserves to be seen in a cinematic forum, preferably on the laser projector in screen one.

There were [as I remember] several screenings at the Picture House but I was away and missed them. And there has not been an opportunity since to catch the title at a cinema.