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Atom Egoyan

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Family ViewingFamily Viewing (1987)
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney
A technically basic yet highly original film that weaves director Egoyan's obsessive themes – technology, voyeurism, dysfunction – into…
Speaking PartsSpeaking Parts (1989)
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Michael McManus, Arsinee Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose
Bizarre and striking work about a video–obssesed laundry worker's fixation on an aspiring actor who in turn has obsessions of his own. A slick…
Adjuster, TheAdjuster, The (1991) Recommended
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Elias Koteas, Arsinee Khanjian, Maury Chaykin
Eliptical and seductive fifth feature from one of cinema's most original talents. Two 'adjusters' – an insurance assessor, and his wife, a film…
CalendarCalendar (1993) Recommended
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Atom Egoyan, Arsinee Khanjian
Dir. Atom Egoyan and his real–life wife Arsinee Khanjian play a romantic–professional couple whose photographic calendar assignment in…
ExoticaExotica (1994) Aro Favourite
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Elias Koteas, Don McKellar, Mia Kirshner
Canadian dir. Atom Egoyan consummates his voyeuristic obsessions to a creative zenith with a critical masterpiece that aims straight at the most…
Sweet Hereafter, TheSweet Hereafter, The (1997) Recommended
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Ian Holm, Tom McCamus, Sarah Polley
A piercingly intelligent adaptation of Russell Banks' novel about a lawyer's earnest meddling in the aftermath of a school bus tragedy in…
SarabandeSarabande (1997) Recommended
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Lori Singer, Don McKellar
The dramatic entry in the 'Inspired by Bach' series in which renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma collaborates with an artist in another medium. Finding perfect…
Yo-Yo Ma - Inspired by Bach Vol. 2Yo-Yo Ma - Inspired by Bach Vol. 2 (Falling Down Stairs / Sarabande) (1997) Recommended
Dir. Barbara Willis Sweete, Atom Egoyan
Feat. Arsinee Khanjian, Don McKellar
Cellist Yo–Yo Ma’s celebrated musical exploration of Bach’s enigmatic solo cello suites, prompted six films, attempting to complement the…
Felicia's JourneyFelicia's Journey (1999)
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinee Khanjian
Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan takes a sideways step to adapt the Birmingham–set novel by William Trevor, a portrait of a serial killer of the…
Beckett on FilmBeckett on Film (Waiting for Godot, et al.) (2001) Recommended
Dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Neil Jordan, Kieron J Walsh
Feat. Julianne Moore, David Kelly, Jeremy Irons
An ambitious anthology of Samuel Beckett's nineteen stageplays, filmed here creatively by a roster of prestige actors and directors. Disc…
AraratArarat (2002) Recommended
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Arsinee Khanjian, Charles Aznavour, Christopher Plummer
A challenging dramatic meditation on the 'forgotten' genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by Turkey during WWI, moulded into an epic of history and…
Where the Truth LiesWhere the Truth Lies (2005) Recommended
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman
Challenging and kinky mystery drama from dir. Atom Egoyan (EXOTICA), in which a reporter in the 1970s (Lohman) investigates the death by overdose of…
Chacun Son CinemaChacun Son Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema) (2007) Recommended
Dir. Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August
35 auteurs convey the meaning of cinema in less than three minutes each, in this epic commission to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film…
AdorationAdoration (2008)
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Devon Bostick, Arsinee Khanjian, Scott Speedman
Dir. Atom Egoyan applies his impeccable arthouse credentials to matters of post–9/11 cultural trauma and emotional reconstruction, piecing…
ChloeChloe (2009)
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried
Deliriously overheated remake of French curio NATHALIE, with Moore convinced husband Neeson is having an affair, so she hires a young prostitute…
Devil's KnotDevil's Knot (2013)
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth, Alessandro Nivola
Solid dramatisation of the long–running West Memphis Three case covered in depth by several documentaries, with dir. Egoyan weaving a typically…
Captive, TheCaptive, The (2014)
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson
Atom Egoyan directs this atmospheric if occasionally implausible thriller about a man's obsessive search for his long–missing daughter,…
RememberRemember (2015)
Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Christopher Plummer, Bruno Ganz, Jurgen Prochnow
A holocaust survivor with dementia sets out to kill a Nazi war criminal in this unsettling and unique thriller from Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan.

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