Directed by Atom Egoyan
8 Episodes
The formally adventurous and psychologically intricate films of ever-fascinating Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan unfold according to complex, time-scrambling structures that heighten their searing emotional impact. Exploring issues of identity (including his own Armenian heritage), loss, alienation, and technology, Egoyan’s films frequently revolve around people struggling to make sense of their own shattered sense of self in the wake of profound personal tragedies. His provocative themes and elliptical style are on display in early critical triumphs like FAMILY VIEWING and SPEAKING PARTS and reach new heights of virtuosity in the riveting psychological dramas FELICIA’S JOURNEY, EXOTICA, and THE SWEET HEREAFTER, the last of which has been hailed as one of the greatest Canadian films of all time.
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15:36Episode 1Atom Egoyan Interview
Episode 1
This new piece with writer-director Atom Egoyan was recorded in 2020.
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Calendar
Episode 2
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1993 • Canada
Starring Arsinée Khanjian, Ashot Adamyan, Atom EgoyanAtom Egoyan’s at once witty and devastating investigation of identity, memory, and displacement stars the director as a Canadian photographer who, while on an assignment shooting churches in Armenia, fi...
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1:52:38Episode 3The Sweet Hereafter
Episode 3
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1997 • Canada
Starring Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce GreenwoodWinner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, Atom Egoyan’s masterful adaptation of a novel by Russell Banks traces the aftermath of a school bus accident in a small Canadian town that leaves fourteen children dead. W...
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Exotica
Episode 4
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1994 • Canada
Starring Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Elias KoteasOne 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, dr...
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1:42:22Episode 5The Adjuster
Episode 5
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1991 • Canada
Starring Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury ChaykinNoah Render (Elias Koteas) is an insurance claims adjuster who attends to his clients’ every need—including their sexual ones. His wife, Hera (Arsinée Khanjian), is a government censor who spends her d...
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03:28Episode 6Artaud Double Bill
Episode 6
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 2007 • France
Starring Antonin Artaud, Maury ChaykinARTAUD DOUBLE BILL is a short Atom Egoyan made for the 2007 anthology film CHACUN SON CINÉMA, commissioned for the sixtieth edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
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19:10Episode 7En passant
Episode 7
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1991 • Canada
Starring Arsinée Khanjian, Maury ChaykinIn 1991, six of Canada’s most talented directors collaborated on MONTRÉAL VU PAR . . ., a cinematic tribute to the city of Montreal on the occasion of its 350th birthday. Atom Egoyan’s contribution, EN PASSANT, conj...
