Tarik Akan & Serif Sezer

Tonight I went to the premiere of the movie "Deli Deli Olma" (Don't be Crazy), More than famous actors Tarık Akan and Şerif Sezer were there. Tarık Akan is the most handsome man in Turkey, past, present and future (according to Ekin). Şerif Sezer sarted her career in the award winning Turkish movie "The Way" (1982).

Portecho

The Turkish band Portecho (Elec-Trip Records) came to the office today for an interview.

The guys (Tan Tunçag and Deniz Cuylan) were pretty cool. Check out their page on MySpace. Their last Album "Studio Plastico" is out. The interview will be here next Friday (in Turkish). You can read this article about them in the NY Times.




























Their last video clip was taken off the air after 4 days of broadcast due to some pressures :

Mithat Bereket

Today we did an interview with Mithat Bereket. He hosts the bi-weekly news and foreign affairs documentary "PUSULA," meaning "compass". Pusula is broadcasted on TRT, Turkey's national public broadcasting network. Before joining TRT. You can watch his documentaries here (in Turkish).














You can see his photo on the TRT's building near Taksim.

Michael and Friends

Michael is spelled Maykıl in Turkish, here it says "Our Michael". but there's no date, no information about what it is.

Arda Turan

Today we went to interview famous Turkish Football player Arda Turan.

Burcu Esmersoy

Today we went to do an interview with Burcu Esmersoy, I didn't know her until today actually and everyone was making fun of me for it. She hosts the sports program on the big Turkish News Channel NTV and on the Sport Channel Ntv Spor. Now I met her in person and she's a pretty cool person, very "humble".

Harun

Today we went to do an interview with Harun Erdenay, a former Turkish basketball player nicknamed Pegasus. Very cool guy.

Sine-Sen

After lunch I witnessed this small demonstration in Taksim Square. There was the Sine-Sen (Turkish Movie Workers Union) of the cinema industry asking for more rights. Shooting conditions are very difficult here. Most people do not get a social insurance, money is given in an enveloppe ...

A.R.O.G. Photos

Cem Yilmaz as Arif









The blurry guy standing up in the front is A.R.O.G.'s actor/scenarist/producer Cem Yilmaz.









The movie theater entrance in the Kanyon mall center.

A.R.O.G.

Thanks to the Sinevidyon team (Özgür and Eren) today I had the opportunity to be among the first to watch the new comedy from Cem Yilmaz at the premiere for the Press.
A.R.O.G. is the second "episode" after the first movie : G.O.R.A.
In Gora Cam Yilmaz played the hero : Arif, a young Turk was captured by extraterrestrials from the planet GORA, fell in love with one of them and defeated the evil commander-in-chief Logar (aslo played by Cem Yilmaz). In A.R.OG. Commander Logar comes back and sends Arif 1 million years ago at the time of dinosaurs where he meets people from the A.R.O.G. tribe this time. Cem Yilmaz plays three different characters in this movie, Arif, Commander Logar and Kaaya leader of the A.R.O.G tribe.

I was afraid that he wouldn't be that funny since they overwhelmed us with commercials, advertising of all sorts. But I wasn't disappointed at all. It was a pretty good and funny movie. They apparently spend 8 million (or maybe 9) dollars to do this film but I'm pretty sure they spent most of it in commercials and in post production. The special effects are in fact pretty good for a Turkish production. The costumes and the decors were really nice too. As for the picture itself, it had a very good quality, the colors, the lighting were very good. A movie to watch absolutely, especially if you're a fan of Cem Yilmaz; if you don't like him you won't like like him here either.

The casting is actually pretty good with almost the same actors from G.O.R.A. : Ozan Güven (played the Robot in G.O.R.A.), Özkan Uğur (comedian and musician - from the MFÖ music band), Özge Özberk and the beautiful singer Nil Karaibrahimgil in her first appearance on the big screen.

Just for your information : The movie is coming out on December the 5th in Turkey as well as in 8 other European countries (Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, U.K. and France). It has been distributed with 400 copies here and 160 copies in Europe.

Turkcell @ MYK

Turkey's first GSM operator's CEO's (Turkcell) Süreyya Ciliv came to our office yesterday so we took a family photo but I got my own too ;)

Denmark Day 02 : Struer - the Farm

Rainy day in Karup. We took a taksi to Struer, 50 km North West, the fare was pretty high, it coast 150 € to go there !


















The farm of...








Mr Peter Olufsen himself. Nephew of one of the founder, Svend Olufsen.He was kind enough to invite us all to eat in his house surrounded by Bang & Olufsen products.