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Atom Egoyan. "Egoyan is a remarkable and admirable figure. Of Armenian descent, he was born in Egypt, where he lived for a few years as a child before moving to western Canada. To be a Canadian filmmaker is, in the words of a movie on which Egoyan assisted, to exist “in the shadow of Hollywood.”. And there is no country of which the ...
One of the defining independent films of the 1990s, Atom Egoyan’s mesmerizing international breakthrough Exotica takes the conventions of the psychological thriller into bold new territory—unsettling, dreamlike, and empathetic. At the neon-drenched Toronto strip club of the film’s title, a coterie of lost and damaged souls—including a man haunted by grief, a young woman with whom he shares an enigmatic bond, an obsessive emcee, and a smuggler of rare bird eggs—search for redemption ...
Jul 20, 2020 · The best place to start – Exotica. Exotica, Egoyan’s commercial breakthrough, is the culmination of his early career’s thematic and aesthetic interests, and stars a number of his regular past and future collaborators: Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Sarah Polley, Don McKellar, David Hemblen and Arsinée Khanjian, Egoyan’s wife. Exotica ...
Atom Egoyan, an Officer of the Order of Canada, is a critically acclaimed and prize winning Canadian-Armenian film maker (director, screenplay writer and editor). He has directed feature, television and documentary films. His 1997 film The Sweet Hereafter was in the running for a Best Director Academy Award.
Atom Egoyan. Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Editor. (b. January 1, 1960 Cairo, Egypt) Atom Egoyan occupies a distinct position within Canadian filmmaking — that of auteur. His unequivocal authorial vision and inimitable style are sustained throughout a body of work that includes 10 feature films. Egoyan is the most consummate filmmaker of ...
Jan 28, 2015 · Atom Egoyan’s Top 10. 10. Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan has directed fourteen features, including The Adjuster (1991), Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Ararat (2002), and, most recently, The Captive (2014). He writes, “Rather than a top ten, these are ten films with which I have some sort of personal relationship.
Nov 24, 1997 · Atom Egoyan: Difficult. Because when I first read the book it had a studio option. It was a closed door. And it wasn’t available. Then a couple years, actually right after ...
