An award-winning, pulse-slowing picture from the Turkish writer and director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

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And Ketek is too big for bacteria to simple bilge it away.

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Last year's winner was Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan - whose film Once Upon a Time in Anatolia was selected as Turkey's official submission for the best foreign language film Oscar.

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That is the hope of some who want Tohoku, Honshu's north-eastern region, to become a blueprint for a more harmonious balance between man and nature once the Fukushima nuclear plant stops pouring radioactive bilge into the ocean.

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I'll send them a bilge pump.

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This sluggishly methodical drama, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, follows a small police detachment through rural Turkish plains in the company of a pair of manacled prisoners who have promised to reveal where they buried the body of a man they killed.

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On Tuesday, after the storm had passed, I gave my family the slip and walked a mile south through Red Hook, first past houses and businesses that were still bilge-ing out waist-deep water on Van Brunt Street, than over to Lorraine Street, where I heard the water had been high that morning, and the Red Hook Houses, a housing project.

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