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Post by wmcclain on Feb 9, 2019 2:42:38 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Feb 9, 2019 2:46:31 GMT
The Sweet Hereafter is the best of his films I have seen so far; I think it is very fine.
Nothing else has measured up to it. I would try Exotica again, and Chloe (an erotic thriller) had a good cast.
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Post by wmcclain on Feb 9, 2019 2:51:25 GMT
To me, it's a masterpiece I agree. I've been promoting it to whoever will listen. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 9, 2019 2:57:13 GMT
Well, he's a perfect example of what happens when politicians and bureaucrats decide what an artist is without public input. Egoyan was constantly advertised as Canada's greatest filmmaker, from day 1, despite the fact he was from Egypt.
He's the immigrant success story or something, and they threw money at him that they would never throw at a native born Canadian of European ancestry.
In truth even Hollywood did that to some extent, Hitchcock was brought over from England to make movies about the US, but his genres were more entertaining.
One time someone in a public event where Egoyan was speaking got up in a Q and A and said: "Your movies are pieces of shit."
The joys of art not done by good old fashioned merit.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 9, 2019 3:38:38 GMT
Racially motivated and incendiary tirades aside, what are your thoughts on the movies he makes? Facts are racist. the government of Canada does not wish to support national cinema by certain peoples born in the nation.
Anyway, on his films, the ones I have seen are not far from what the audience member expressed.
You would be hard pressed to find anyone in Canada who have seen his films though.
He's not popular with Canadians, only Ottawa bureaucrats. At least Cronenberg and Reitman did make some films that got box office value, although-typical of Canada, the biggest box champ is technically Porky's by American Bob Clark.
Alas, no Canadian John Fords or Walt Disneys.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 9, 2019 3:51:29 GMT
Well, I'm no government plant and I'll go on record saying that I "didn't" enjoying these "shill" prorpaganda movies ...
Ottawa thanks you |
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Post by petrolino on Feb 9, 2019 11:38:50 GMT
I found the much-maligned crime drama 'Devil's Knot' (2013) quite compelling but it felt like it had been butchered in the editing room. The one I'm torn on is 'Ararat' (2002), I think it doesn't work for me, but then I keep coming back to it, so I find it an interesting film. Some I'd like to see, like his recent film 'The Captive' (2014).
"Watch one Atom Egoyan film and you'll soon be able to spot another. They feel like they've been traumatised, back-ended by a car; the chronology has been knocked out of sequence, characters behave like they're in shock. Recurring themes are loss, missing bits of history and voyeurism. They can leave you deeply uneasy. In one scene in 1991's The Adjuster, the colleague of a female film censor (played by Arsinée Khanjian, Egoyan's wife), sidles up to her pervily in a dark screening room. She responds by pushing his hand up her skirt and laughing manically. I vividly remember watching it in a London cinema years ago. When the lights went up at the end the audience squirmed out like we'd been caught watching something seedy in a Soho backstreet."
- Cath Clarke, The Guardian
'Family Viewing' (1987)
'Speaking Parts' (1989)
'The Adjustor' (1991)
'Exotica' (1994)
'The Sweet Hereafter' (1997)
'Felicia's Journey' (1999)
'Where The Truth Lies' (2005)
'Chloe' (2009)
Kevin Bacon, Brian De Palma & Atom Egoyan - 3 Years before the Film Farm production proposal
"It was the quest for assimilation. Always aware of being on the outside."
- Atom Egoyan
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Feb 9, 2019 15:32:36 GMT
His film Remember is very good. Amazing twist ending.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 9, 2019 15:56:46 GMT
His film Remember is very good. Amazing twist ending. I think I'll look for this when I look for 'The Captive'. Thanks. |
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Post by koskiewicz on Feb 9, 2019 18:44:33 GMT
"Exotica" for me. It introduced me to the music of Leonard Cohen and insight into the talent of Elias Koteas - a combination that provided the impetus to view future Egoyan films...
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Feb 9, 2019 23:08:09 GMT
I think I enjoyed Where the Truth Lies the most of the few I've seen. The others being Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter.
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Post by marth on Feb 9, 2019 23:44:01 GMT
I only watched Where the Truth Lies and I really like it.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Feb 14, 2019 22:57:38 GMT
The Sweet Hereafter is like a realistic horror movie. I don't have kids but the sheer trauma caused to the parents in the movie is not something anyone wants to experience themselves. Another of his movies, The Captive, feels like an unofficial sequel to The Sweet Hereafter. Atom Egoyan movies I've seen: Exotica
The Sweet Hereafter
Felicia's Journey
Where the Truth Lies
Chloe
Devil's Knot
The CaptiveWhere the Truth Lies is such a clever title. 
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Post by hi224 on Feb 15, 2019 3:18:49 GMT
Hereafter is his best as well.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 16, 2019 0:56:35 GMT
I only watched Where the Truth Lies and I really like it. Yep, I'm transfixed by this movie. Should be ranked among his best. |
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