Bilge Ebiri
{{short description|American journalist and filmmaker of Turkish origin|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Bilge Ebiri ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ɪ|l|ɡ|ə|_|ɛ|ˈ|b|ɪər|i}}; born 1973) is a British-born American journalist and filmmaker. His first feature film, a comedy thriller entitled New Guy, was released in 2004.
Early life and education
Ebiri is of Turkish descent.
Ebiri studied at Yale University, majoring in Film Studies, and graduated in 1995.{{Cite web |title=Film Studies Major Alumni {{!}} Film and Media Studies Program |url=https://filmstudies.yale.edu/undergraduate/film-studies-major-alumni |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026223021/https://filmstudies.yale.edu/undergraduate/film-studies-major-alumni |archive-date=26 October 2023 |access-date=19 January 2024 |website=Yale}} His thesis film, Bad Neighborhood, won the Lamar Prize for Achievement in Film.{{Cite web |title=Facebook {{!}} Yale Student Film Festival |url=https://www.facebook.com/yalestudentfilmfestival/photos/bilge-ebiri-is-a-director-and-principal-film-critic-for-the-village-voice-he-rec/1864791170429912/ |access-date=19 January 2024 |website=Facebook |quote=...winning the Lamar Prize for Achievement in Film for his thesis film Bad Neighborhood.}}
Career
After graduation, Ebiri worked as an assistant director for a Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov on The Barber of Siberia.{{Cite web |title=The Barber of Siberia (1998) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120125/fullcredits |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406031022/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120125/fullcredits |archive-date=6 April 2019 |access-date=19 January 2024 |website=IMDB}}
In 2003 he wrote, directed and co-produced the low-budget feature film New Guy. It was released in 2004 and after getting positive reviews in The New York Times and Variety, had a successful theatrical run in New York City. Time Out called it "broadly predictable and increasingly one note, but passable sadistic fun."{{cite news |title=New Guy |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/new-guy |work=Time Out |access-date=December 19, 2018}} It was released on DVD in 2005 by Vanguard Cinema.{{Cite web |title=Amazon.com: New Guy [DVD] |url=https://www.amazon.com/New-Guy-Kelly-Miller/dp/B000ASATTE |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070406055639/https://www.amazon.com/New-Guy-Kelly-Miller/dp/B000ASATTE |archive-date=6 April 2007 |access-date=19 January 2024 |website=Amazon}}
He served as the lead critic at The Village Voice for two years beginning in 2016, before returning to New York magazine and Vulture as film critic and editor in September 2019.{{cite news |last=Adams |first=Sam |date=February 25, 2016 |title=Bilge Ebiri Will Be the Village Voice's New Film Critic |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2016/02/bilge-ebiri-will-be-the-village-voices-new-film-critic-124829/ |work=IndieWire |access-date=December 19, 2018}}{{Cite web |last=Janowitz |first=Neil |date=2019-09-10 |title=Vulture Announces Bilge Ebiri and Alison Willmore as Film Critics |url=https://nymag.com/press/2019/09/vulture-names-bilge-ebiri-and-alison-willmore-film-critics.html |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=New York Press Room |language=en}}
Filmography
- Bad Neighborhood (1995)
- Infernal Racket (1996)
- New Guy (2003)
- Purse Snatcher (2006)
- Görünmeyen (2011)
References
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External links
- {{Blogspot|ebiri|Official blog}}
- {{IMDb name|0248208}}
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Category:American film critics
Category:Film directors from New York City
Category:American people of Turkish descent
Category:English emigrants to the United States
Category:English people of Turkish descent
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