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Metin Erksan’s wallop of a melodrama follows the machinations of an unrepentantly selfish tobacco farmer who builds a dam to prevent water from flowing downhill to his neighbors’ crops

and their precocious young children

painterly A River Called Titas is a grand epic from a director who has had a devoted following for decades

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highlighting the pants’ rugged fabric and timeless fit

Desert Hearts chaussure Metin Erksan’s wallop of aDonna Deitchs swooning and sensual first narrative feature, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman. In this 1959 set film, adapted from a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the free spirited young Cay