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Film Discussions at the Ottoman Bank Museum:
A conversation with writer Selim İleri...

At the Ottoman Bank Museum movie theater, screenings of feature films on a different theme every month continue, complemented by discussions on that month's theme, organized by Mehmet Açar, film critic and consultant to TÜRSAK, (the Turkish Cinema and Audiovisual Foundation). Well-known Turkish writer Selim İleri joins Açar in a discussion on this month's theme, "The Past is a Foreign Country", on Saturday, March 27, 2004, at 4:30 p.m.

The conversation with Selim İleri - whose unforgettable screenplays are a major contribution to Turkish film-making - will revolve around childhood memories, the recurring theme in all four films showing at the Museum this March. Hope and Glory (1987) is director John Boorman's recollection of the London blitz during World War II, as seen through the eyes of a young boy, Woody Allen takes us back to the the golden era of the radio in his delightfully nostalgic Radio Days (1987), the classic American film To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), recounts the clash of childhood, law and prejudice, in a small Alabama town, in the 1930s, and Avalon (1990), is the third film of director Barry Levinson's autobiographical "Baltimore Trilogy".

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.