Back	AT THE OTTOMAN BANK MUSEUM FILMS IN ISTANBUL/ISTANBUL IN FILMS Fatih Özgüven, film critic and writer, will be joining us at the Voyvoda Street Istanbul Lectures this month, to explore images of Istanbul on the silver screen with a presentation titled, "Films in Istanbul/Istanbul in Films". In the late Ottoman period, Istanbul became the first city of the Empire to witness the birth of a new art form: the cinema. What place did Istanbul come to occupy in the historical process of film-making? What aspects of Istanbul did the nascent film industry of Yeşilçam convey? How was Istanbul depicted in foreign films? The lecture, illustrated with original film clips, is scheduled for Wednesday, November 10, at 6:30 p.m. Born in Istanbul, in 1957, Fatih Özgüven, a graduate of the Austrian High Schoool in Istanbul, studied English Language and Literature at Istanbul University.Özgüven, who currently teaches at the Film and TV Department of the Faculty of Communications at Istanbul Bilgi University, is the editor of the Vladimir Nabokov series published by Iletişim and has translated the works of numerous authors including, Borges, Nabokov, Milan Kundera, Henry James, Karen Blixen, Thomas Mann, Thomas Bernhard, Paul Auster, Flannery O'Connor and Virginia Woolf. He is also the author of Esrarengiz Bay Kartaloğlu (The Mysterious Mr. Kartaloğlu) and Yerüstünden Notlar (Notes from Aboveground). For further information on this free lecture offered by the Museum, please call, (212) 334 22 70. The Voyvoda Street Istanbul Lectures aim to provide a fresh look at the city we've lived in for years but perhaps still know so little about...