Atom Egoyan — Director (22)
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Sarabande (1997) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Sarabande
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Yo-Yo Ma / Lori Singer …
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.
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Montreal Stories (1991) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Montréal vu par…
director: Michel Brault / Jacques Leduc … actor: Jacques Allard / Denys Arcand …
other title: Montréal vu par… / Montréal vu par...
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
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Adoration (2009) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Adoration
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Devon Bostick / Scott Speedman …
other title: Simons Geheimnis
For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.
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The Sweet Hereafter (1997) [Movie] Skybridge IMDb TMDB
The Sweet Hereafter
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Ian Holm / Sarah Polley …
other title: Il dolce domani / O Futuro Radioso …
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
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Family Viewing (1987) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Family Viewing
director: Atom Egoyan actor: David Hemblen / Aidan Tierney …
other title: Black Comedy... / La vida en video …
An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?
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Krapp's Last Tape (2000) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Krapp's Last Tape
director: Atom Egoyan actor: John Hurt
other title: Krapp’s Last Tape / La última cinta
In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the 69-year-old man on stage, but from his 39-year-old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. On the 'awful occasion' of his birthday, Krapp was then and is now in the habit of reviewing the past year and 'separating the grain from the husks'. He isolates memories of value, fertility and nourishment to set against creeping death 'when all my dust has settled'.
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Felicia's Journey (1999) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Felicia's Journey
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Bob Hoskins / Elaine Cassidy …
other title: Il viaggio di Felicia / Felicia, mein Engel …
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks unsettling secret.
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
director: Júlio Bressane / Antonio Capuano … actor: Bernardo Bertolucci / Haile Gerima …
other title: Venezia 70: Future Reloaded
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
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Calendar (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Calendar
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Arsinée Khanjian / Ashot Adamyan …
A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.
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Seven Veils (2023) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Seven Veils
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Amanda Seyfried / Douglas Smith …
other title: L'ultima danza di Salomè / 七层纱 …
In the film, Seyfried plays Jeanine, an earnest theater director who’s been given the daunting task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera “Salome.”
Haunted by dark memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after many years.
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Exotica (1994) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Exotica
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Bruce Greenwood / Mia Kirshner …
other title: Exótica
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
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The Captive (2014) [Movie] TMDB
The Captive
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Ryan Reynolds / Scott Speedman …
other title: The Captive: Scomparsa / Prisioneira …
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban Skybridge WikiData
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
director: Theodoros Angelopoulos / Olivier Assayas … actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Taraneh Alidoosti …
other title: A ciascuno il suo cinema / Cada um o seu Cinema …
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.