Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan

Born: July 19, 1960
in Cairo, Egypt
Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian independent film maker. His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures. Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot-structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information.

In 2008 he received the Dan David Prize for "Creative Rendering of the Past".

Movies for Atom Egoyan...

Viva Varda!
Title: Viva Varda!
Character: Self
Released: May 17, 2023
Type: Movie
A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. With movies like Cléo de 5 à 7, Le Bonheur, Sans toit ni loi, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, she created a quirky, open to the world, sensitive to the disenfranchised, often silly body of work. Always one finger on the pulse, she shook everything up, including cinema itself which she refused to constrict to pure fiction or long-form films.
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Talking Heads 2021
Title: Talking Heads 2021
Character: Self
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: Movie
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
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Le cri du rhinocéros
Title: Le cri du rhinocéros
Character: Self
Released: November 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Marc Labrèche, the Director of this documentary, himself an author, actor and host, meets other creators to ask them these questions that inhabit him. Do artists have an expiry date? Do we create our best works in our youth or, on the contrary, does experience allow us to develop a greater mastery of our medium? In this respect, are there important differences between the different forms of art such as music, cinema and literature?
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Sculpting Memory
Title: Sculpting Memory
Released: May 5, 2015
Type: Movie
Sculpting Memory places Atom Egoyan in an audiovisual environment woven from the fabric of his own films―a conceptual move that references Egoyan’s adaptation of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape while evoking Egoyan’s own work as a moving-image installation artist and his concern with the recording and displaying of images.
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Rewind This!
Title: Rewind This!
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Home video changed the world. The cultural and historical impact of the VHS tape was enormous. This film traces the ripples of that impact by examining the myriad aspects of society that were altered by the creation of videotape.
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The Rep - A Documentary
Title: The Rep - A Documentary
Character: Himself
Released: October 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Follows the first year of business for Alex, Charlie, and Nigel as they try to make their theatre, The Toronto Underground Cinema, a success in the dying world of repertory cinema. The film also places the cinema in context to the larger world of rep. Featuring interviews with theatres such as Film Forum in NYC, The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, and The New Beverly Cinema in L.A., and celebrities such as Kevin Smith, John Waters, Atom Egoyan, and George A. Romero, the world of repertory cinema will come alive as a vibrant and culturally significant medium that needs to be preserved
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Barney's Version
Title: Barney's Version
Character: O'Malley Director #1
Released: October 26, 2010
Type: Movie
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
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It Came from Kuchar
Title: It Came from Kuchar
Character: Self
Released: September 22, 2009
Type: Movie
It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. George and Mike Kuchar have inspired two generations of filmmakers, actors, musicians, and artists with their zany, "no budget" films and with their uniquely enchanting spirits.
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Title: Indie Sex
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 2007
Type: TV
Indie Sex is a 2007 American television documentary film directed by Lesli Klainberg.
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Citadel
Title: Citadel
Character: Self
Released: July 3, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary about a journey to Beirut
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Title: This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Character: Self - Director of 'Where the Truth lies'
Released: January 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.
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Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Title: Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
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Formulas for Seduction: The Cinema of Atom Egoyan
Title: Formulas for Seduction: The Cinema of Atom Egoyan
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Documentary about the films of Atom Egoyan.
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The Stupids
Title: The Stupids
Character: TV Studio Guard
Released: August 8, 1996
Type: Movie
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
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A Portrait of Arshile
Title: A Portrait of Arshile
Character: Voice
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Egoyan juxtaposes home-video images of his son Arshile with a self-portrait of the famed Armenian artist, Arshile Gorky; Egoyan narrates in English, while his wife narrates in Armenian. The self-portrait made from a photo of the artist as a child at the time of the great massacre of the Armenians is used as a focus for meditations on the nature of self-awareness, artistic expression, and the relationship between the artist and the viewer.
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At Sundance
Title: At Sundance
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg Araki, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, James Gray, Robert Redford, Haskell Wexler, among many others. Co-directed by Amy Hobby. [Filmed in Pixelvision and blown-up to evocatively grainy 16mm.]
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Camilla
Title: Camilla
Character: Sea Bunnies Director
Released: November 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly woman who plays the violin. When the two embark on a journey together, Camilla reclaims a lost love and makes peace with herself and her son, while Freda discovers inner resources she never knew she had.
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Calendar
Title: Calendar
Character: Photographer
Released: June 3, 1993
Type: Movie
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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The Box of Sun
Title: The Box of Sun
Released: September 11, 1988
Type: Movie
In this silent, surrealist fantasy, thick clouds in a scorched sky prevent the sun from reaching the earth. Only a group of children in this gray world have access to a source of light which is in the wintry woods. They collect it into small boxes that they use to revive people imprisoned in pictures. A young woman grieving for her lost lover goes in search of these children so that they can bring her beloved back to life.