Back	Film Discussions at the Ottoman Bank Museum The Ottoman Bank Museum now offers a cinema program featuring screenings of films on different themes every month, complemented by discussions, organized by Mehmet Açar, film critic and consultant to TÜRSAK (Turkish Cinema and Audiovisual Cultural Foundation) on that month's theme or on a specific film. Açar's first guest this month will be historian Prof. İlber Ortayli, speaking on the topic "19th Century Europe", on Saturday, January 24, at 6:30 p.m. Drawing on Visconti's Senso and Death in Venice, David Lynch's Elephant Man, and Karel Reisz's The French Lieutenant's Woman, the discussion aims to shed light on the social and cultural changes taking place in Europe during the 19th century, and to consider their repercussions on late Ottoman and early Republican Turkish society. The Museum's movie theater has a seating capacity of 46. Screening times are at 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays, and 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. on Saturdays. Tickets cost - full: 6,000,000 TL, discounted: 4,000,000 TL and can be obtained from the Museum.