Lonely Planet İstanbul Guide

Russia with Love (1974), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Skyfall (2012). Other films to look out for are Jacques Vierne’s 1961 film Tintin and the Golden Fleece; Alain Robbe-Grillet’s 1963 film L’Immortelle; Alan Parker’s 1978 hit Midnight Express; and Jules Dassin’s 1964 crime spoof Topkapi, which was based on Eric Ambler’s novel In the Light of Day . Greek director Tassos Boulmetis set part of his popular 2003 arthouse film A Touch of Spice here. In 2014 Australian–New Zealand actor Russell Crowe released his directorial debut The Water Diviner , which tells the story of an Australian father who makes his way to İstanbul to ascertain the fate of his three sons, all missing in action after the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915. Parts of Mira Nair’s 2012 The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Hossein Amini’s 2014 The Two Faces of January were also shot here.