Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
This magical and moving tale on love and loss, by the Fatih Akin won the Best Screenplay award at the 2007 Festival de Cannes and was screened at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. The German/Turkish film with English sub-titles focuses on six ...
Mavi Boncuk (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Mavi Boncuk | San Sebastian winner is Pandora's Box Fatih Akin gets funding for new projects Türkischer Film vor "internationalem Durchbruch" Book | Turkish Cinema Identity, Distance and Belon... Toronto 08 | Un Giorno perfetto by Ferzan Ozpetek... Fatih Akin also says "New York, I Love You" 48th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Un giorno perfetto by Ferzan Özpetek Two lines / Iki Cizgi by...
Boston Review (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Alan Stone on the “The Edge of Heaven,” directed by Fatih Akin and winner of best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival 2007. “Weaving several stories together in a nonlinear narrative, the film juxtaposes life in Hamburg and Bremen with life in Istanbul and along the Black Sea.”
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
An eclectic group of filmmakers and screenwriters explore various approaches to love in New York City. The picture boasts contributions from folks like Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randy Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Scarlett Johansson, Shekhar Kapur (taking up for the late Anthony Minghella), Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Jiang Wen, Andrey [...]
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Aspiring authors are told, “Write what you know.” Filmmaker Fatih Akin knows the world of Turkish immigrants in Germany. Born in Hamburg and raised in the conflicting cultures of East and West, the 35-year-old Akin roots his films in a specific milieu, but one so rich in possibilities that his work easily takes on universal relevance.
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Review Crossed cultures and missed connections are at the heart of "The Edge of Heaven," director Fatih Akin's shattering drama about characters trying to reach across the global divide.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
"The Edge of Heaven" is Fatih Akin's magical Turkish-German drama, which follows a gentle literature professor searching for a stranger. The open ending, which deliberately doesn't quite connect the dots in the coincidence-driven story, is essentially a meditation on the nature of anticipation.
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven wears current events on its sleeve, feeling out the state of German-Turkish relationships as the former Ottomans clean house for E.U. membership and the demographic earthquake of 70 million Muslims waits at Europe's door. Examining a Europe whose increasin...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
The jigsaw-puzzle, time-hopping storytelling of movies from Pulp Fiction to 21 Grams becomes a movie version of a lyric, musical round in The Edge of Heaven , Fatih Akin's superb film about the eternal pull of family. Since it's released by a small company and will be playing at the Charles, movie lovers should see it right away - partly to get the word of mouth going so it will last more than a week,...
Turkish Digest (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
"'Edge' tackles Turkish-German conflict By WESLEY MORRIS The Boston Globe In just a couple of movies, 34-year-old Fatih Akin has become the most exciting of Europe's young directors, reinvigorating the melodrama with a furious kind of identity politics. Like 'Head-On,' his 2004 wrecking-ball romance, Akin's new 'The Edge of Heaven' is perched along the fault line of the current Turkish-German situation....
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
There are so many big things going on in Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven - love, death, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, even some taut political thriller stuff - that it's easy to imagine the film imploding from the stress of it all.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Film News: North-Rhine doles out $800,000 for German pic -- An omnibus film about today's Germany featuring segments by Teutonic helmers Fatih Akin, Wolfgang Becker and Tom Tykwer among others, has received e500,000 ($800,000) from Germany's largest film subsid board, North-Rhine Westphalia's Filmstiftung NRW.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Filmmaker Fatih Akin speaks fluent English with an accent that is hard to place. That makes sense, given that Akin, the German-born director of the breakthrough film "Head-On" (2004), the music documentary "Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul" (2005)...
Turkish Digest (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
"GERMANS AND TURKS TOGETHER IN 'HEAVEN' Reyhan Harmanci Friday, July 4, 2008 Filmmaker Fatih Akin speaks fluent English with an accent that is hard to place. That makes sense, given that Akin, the German-born director of the breakthrough film "Head-On" (2004), the music documentary "Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul" (2005) and the drama "The Edge of Heaven," has made a career out of exploring...
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Political intrigue and murder takes a back seat to personal drama in Fatih Akin's masterfully directed piece.
