Oktay Ege Kozak

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Trailblazing, controversial and an essential filmmaking voice, Spike Lee’s movies are mainly known as “issue” films, confronting race relations in America, implicating each audience member in problems we’re most likely too uncomfortable (or worse) to face head on. That description, of course, diminishes Lee’s influence over the technical and narrative language of filmmaking during the last four decades of his versatile career.

Jul 2, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Oktay Ege Kozak

Even though he came to prominence during the renowned late ’60s-’70s “New Hollywood” era, Hal Ashby never really attained the widespread adulation that peers like Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg enjoyed.

May 10, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Oktay Ege Kozak

“What will he find out there, doctor?” “His destiny.” That’s what the conservative ape scientist Dr. Zaius (Maurice Evans) tells compassionate ape “veterinarian” Dr. Zira (Kim Hunter) at the end of the original Planet of the Apes, as misanthropic astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) sets out into the Forbidden Zone of this topsy-turvy planet—where intelligent, talking apes are the dominant species and humans are dumb beasts—in order to find out what really happened to his species.

Apr 26, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Oktay Ege Kozak

Akira Kurosawa is frequently referred to as “Emperor”—hyperbolic, sure, but when it comes to the director’s staggeringly influential, detailed and versatile body of work, the truth catches up to the legend. Ranking his movies comes with this burden.

Jun 4, 2023 | pastemagazine.com | Oktay Ege Kozak