Directed by Atom Egoyan
13 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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1:56:05Episode 2Felicia’s Journey
Episode 2
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1999 • Canada, United Kingdom
Starring Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée KhanjianAtom Egoyan’s haunting adaptation of the novel by William Trevor is a Hitchcockian psychological thriller that swirls around the filmmaker’s signature themes of fate and loss. Felicia (...
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1:46:29Episode 3Where the Truth Lies
Episode 3
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 2005 • United Kingdom, Canada
Starring Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison LohmanIn 1957, a young woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the hotel room of a superstar, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis–esque comedy team. Now, fifteen years later, journalist Kare...
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1:26:33Episode 4Family Viewing
Episode 4
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1987 • Canada
Starring David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle RoseThe fractured family of Atom Egoyan’s darkly comic second feature consists of Stan (David Hemblen), a mild sexual sadist; Sandra (Gabrielle Rose), his live-in mistress and video bondage partner; and his...
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1:10:01Episode 5Next of Kin
Episode 5
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1984 • Canada
Starring Patrick Tierney, Berj Fazlian, Sirvart FazlianAtom Egoyan’s striking debut finds the director already working through the themes of technology, isolation, and identity that recur obsessively throughout his work. Peter (Patrick Tierney) is cataton...
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1:31:50Episode 6Speaking Parts
Episode 6
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1989 • Canada
Starring Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle RoseHaunting images and obsessive sexuality merge in this postmodern thriller about loss, love, power, and the distance that modern technology puts between us. The story of four people—an actor/gigolo ...
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Calendar
Episode 7
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 8The Sweet Hereafter
Episode 8
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 9
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 10The Adjuster
Episode 10
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 11Artaud Double Bill
Episode 11
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 12En passant
Episode 12
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...
