Thanks to the
vagaries of film distribution and the increasing difficulties of small films and foreign language productions to get theatrical releases, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama, which won the Best Director award at Cannes 2008, this one - week Seattle engagement at the Varsity Theatre is the film's American theatrical debut.
Her father studied politics and history and was a
manager of a film distribution company, but she emphasises that this was incidental — he was more interested in management than film.
He added that «looking at the ever changing
landscape of film distribution, I think the Tribecca Film team is perfectly positioned to shepherd «Detachment.»»
The changing
tide of film distribution has admittedly watered down the horror options for us (I've sat through some major clunkers recently), but it has also opened up our options for finding new films we might not have been able to find in a post video store world.
In addition to film criticism, he has worked as a repertory film programmer and in the acquisitions
side of film distribution.
Of course, due to the
vagaries of film distribution, many great films from that year were only released (or became available to me) long after I handed them out.